[Twelearly]

http://dailycaller.com/2012/04/25/ru...g-farm-chores/


A proposal from the Obama administration to prevent children from doing farm chores has drawn plenty of criticism from rural-district members of Congress. But now it’s attracting barbs from farm kids themselves.
The Department of Labor is poised to put the finishing touches on a rule that would apply child labor laws to children working on family farms, prohibiting them from performing a list of jobs on their own families’ land.
Under the rules, most children under 18 could no longer work “in the storing, marketing and transporting of farm product raw materials.”
“Prohibited places of employment,” a Department press release read, “would include country grain elevators, grain bins, silos, feed lots, stockyards, livestock exchanges and livestock auctions.”
The new regulations, first proposed August 31 by Labor Secretary Hilda Solis, would also revoke the government’s approval of safety training and certification taught by independent groups like 4-H and FFA, replacing them instead with a 90-hour federal government training course.
Rossie Blinson, a 21-year-old college student from Buis Creek, N.C., told The Daily Caller that the federal government’s plan will do far more harm than good.
“The main concern I have is that it would prevent kids from doing 4-H and FFA projects if they’re not at their parents’ house,” said Blinson.
“I started showing sheep when I was four years old. I started with cattle around 8. It’s been very important. I learned a lot of responsibility being a farm kid.”
In Kansas, Cherokee County Farm Bureau president Jeff Clark was out in the field — literally on a tractor — when TheDC reached him. He said if Solis’s regulations are implemented, farming families’ labor losses from their children will only be part of the problem.
“What would be more of a blow,” he said, “is not teaching our kids the values of working on a farm.”
The Environmental Protection Agency reports that the average age of the American farmer is now over 50.
“Losing that work ethic — it’s so hard to pick this up later in life,” Clark said. “There’s other ways to learn how to farm, but it’s so hard. You can learn so much more working on the farm when you’re 12, 13, 14 years old.”
John Weber, 19, understands. The Minneapolis native grew up in suburbia and learned the livestock business working summers on his relatives’ farm.
He’s now a college Agriculture major.
“I started working on my grandparent’s and uncle’s farms for a couple of weeks in the summer when I was 12,” Weber told TheDC. “I started spending full summers there when I was 13.”
“The work ethic is a huge part of it. It gave me a lot of direction and opportunity in my life. If they do this it will prevent a lot of interest in agriculture. It’s harder to get a 16 year-old interested in farming than a 12 year old.”
Weber is also a small businessman. In high school, he said, he took out a loan and bought a few steers to raise for income. “Under these regulations,” he explained, “I wouldn’t be allowed to do that.”
In February the Labor Department seemingly backed away from what many had called an unrealistic reach into farmers’ families, reopening the public comment period on a section of the regulations designed to give parents an exemption for their own children.
But U.S. farmers’ largest trade group is unimpressed.
“American Farm Bureau does not view that as a victory,” said Kristi Boswell, a labor specialist with the American Farm Bureau Federation. “It’s a misconception that they have backed off on the parental exemption.”

[Reafnartefs]

Why bother with real farming when you can sit in a corner playing Farmville, or whatever the fuck it's called.

[tomsmuidh]

what a f up world are leaders are making for us all .............................. this will not stop the people i know out here in the country , it part of life here for the kids to help around the farms . real men dont let others tell them how to live

[allmyflights]

Crush, Kill, Destroy !
That's all these freaks do.

Another one who has a tax paying problem.
http://ronideutch.blogspot.com/2009/...e-has-tax.html

[Acalsenunse]

Congressman and 2012 Republican Presidential candidate Ron Paul issued the following statement regarding the Department of Labor's new regulations applying child labor laws to family farms.

Below find comments from Congressman Paul:

"The Department of Labor's plan to issue new regulations applying child labor laws to family farms is an outrageous assault on America's farmers. My parents were dairy farmers who required me and my brothers to help out on the farm. I certainly benefited from this experience, and, as a Representative of a congressional district containing a large number of farmers, I have had the opportunity to meet many farmers who learned about their profession by doing chores on their parents' farms. Working on a family farm also provides a tremendous opportunity to form a strong work ethic that these children will carry through the rest of their lives.

“Thanks to the Obama Administration, future generations of children will be deprived of these experiences.

“Now that the federal government is planning to, for all intents and purposes, outlaw chores on the farm, I wonder when the Department of Labor will forbid parents from requiring children to make their beds, clean their rooms, or set the table for dinner. The founding fathers would be outraged to see the federal government attempting to prevent children from helping their parents on their farms. If the American people select me as their next President, I will put an end to these regulations on my first day in office.

“Under my ‘Plan to Restore America,’ I will use my constitutional authority as President to impose a moratorium on any new federal regulations. My Plan also reduces spending by $1 trillion in the first year of my presidency and balances the budget by my third year, while providing much-needed tax relief to the American people. This will put more money back in the pockets of hard-working Americans, like those who provide vital goods by running family farms.

“Out of all the candidates seeking the presidential nomination of a major party, I am the only one with a record of consistently opposing all unconstitutional, job-destroying regulations. I urge all Americans who wish to free their businesses and their families from the grip of the regulatory state to join my campaign to Restore America Now.”

http://exm.nr/IHU7OA

[AcecePesFeacy]

there goes my entire childhood (except for saturday nights when i was driving around in a camaro drinking mad dog 20/20).

[GenrieAB]

Another attempt to kill the family farmer and make the world safe for the Monsantos of the world.

[Nwxffgke]

All the Amish kids around here wouldn't know what to do !

[DoctorIrokezov]

the Sovietization of America continues.

administered largely by the same ethnic group that managed the Soviet experiment.


notice that when the Soviet Empire broke up, the valuable pieces were largely given to Jewish Russians. i sense an organized crime connection.

it reminds me of how in the post 9-11 Silicon Valley, the valuable pieces ended up in the hands of Jews - Jewish venture capital financing Jewish techies.

[Acalsenunse]

Let's be realistic, this crap ain't ever gonna fly, well...I ain't gonna say never but can you imagine the showdown? I don't think the feds want a piece of that can of opened worms. I will probably be dead wrong and dead if this comes to pass, cause yaw'll know where I'll be.

[MADwanker]

They can't stand even partial self sufficiency. These are the articles I read and say "we are so f'd"

[yxn2dC07]

Applies to children with birth certificates. You know you cannot use others slaves without requesting permission first.

[RerRoktoido]

Crush, Kill, Destroy !
That's all these freaks do.

Another one who has a tax paying problem.
http://ronideutch.blogspot.com/2009/...e-has-tax.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z71iqDfeXrg

[MADwanker]

http://www.nationalgrange.org/2012/0...r-regulations/

[TritteTouff]

Labor Department backs off new limits on child labor on farms

Source: Associated Press

WASHINGTON — Under heavy pressure from farm groups, the Obama administration said Thursday it would drop an unpopular plan to prevent children from doing hazardous work on farms owned by anyone other than their parents.

The Labor Department said it is withdrawing proposed rules that would ban children younger than 16 from using most power-driven farm equipment, including tractors. The rules also would prevent those younger than 18 from working in feed lots, grain bins and stockyards.

While labor officials said their goal was to reduce the fatality rate for child farm workers, the proposal had become a popular political target for Republicans who called it an impractical, heavy-handed regulation that ignored the reality of small farms.

"It's good the Labor Department rethought the ridiculous regulations it was going to stick on farmers and their families," said Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa. "To even propose such regulations defies common sense, and shows a real lack of understanding as to how the family farm works."

Read more: http://billingsgazette.com/news/stat...6a3e06537.html

[peakyesno]

Total MO of Marxists, war on the family, war on farmers,
the gov is full of dumb useless stooges implementing policies.

Notice they backed down.

They implement or attempt to implement and back down.

They are monitoring reactions as well.

They just did that with the new internet bill, backed down,
then came up with a new one that is worse, who is writing all
this crap ? They got bills on the burner already written waiting.
Like Patriot Act, it was already written before 9/11.

Excellent article with good points.
Children | Farm Labor | Regulations | Withdrawal | The Daily Caller

[yxn2dC07]

who is writing all this crap ?

West Publishing.

[peakyesno]

West Publishing.

Sorry Palani, wrong answer, some clues above were given, especially gunDriller.

NKVD Bolsheviks is the right answer.
http://gold-silver.us/forum/showthre...l=1#post537392

[yxn2dC07]

Bolsheviks is the right answer.

Bolsheviks in Minnesota? It is a liberal state but too frigid for Dr Zhivago.

[TritteTouff]

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1014108117


Midlands Democrats, GOP unite to send farm bill forward (corrected)

Last edited Fri Apr 27, 2012, 06:54 AM USA/ET - Edit history (1)
Source: Omaha World Herald

By Joseph Morton

WASHINGTON — It's not often that the ideologically diverse group of Nebraska and Iowa U.S. senators back the same policy approach.

But in an illustration of the old adage that farm politics are more regional than partisan, the four joined together Thursday to help the Senate Agriculture Committee send a farm bill forward.

Committee approval came despite opposition from southern Republicans who say the bill would leave their rice and peanut growers without an adequate safety net, and one Democrat from New York with concerns about cuts to nutrition assistance, more commonly referred to as food stamps.

At the heart of the bill are changes to federal crop subsidy programs. The bill would end direct payments, subsidies that go to farmers based on historical production without regard to current prices or yields.

FULL story at link.



Read more: http://www.omaha.com/article/2012042...m-bill-forward