No more farm chores for rural children?

[chippie]

This proposed legislation will end opportunities for young people to work on their family's farms and ranches. It is very wide reaching and will affect FFA, 4-H and probably all livestock shows : (

http://dailycaller.com/2012/04/25/rural-kids-parents-angry-about-labor-dept-rule-banning-farm-chores/

[ALACOWMAN]

thats some of the progressive's handywork

[alisonb]

http://thegraph.com/2012/04/us-labor-department-is-not-banning-children-from-doing-farm-chores/

[chippie]

http://video.foxnews.com/v/1588212697001/no-more-farm-chores-for-rural-kids

[Engler]

So if I'm reading this right I can make, err hire, my kids to do whatever I want, but they can't go across the road to help grandma collect eggs or help grandpa pick sweet corn for hire.

Also my niece can work for her parents farm A and my kids can work for my farm B, but if we form AB LLC none of the kids can work for either of us since neither parent is 100% owner of the LLC.

If my kid has 1 cow in a pen of 7 at grandpa's and he asks them to do chores 2 days a week (1 for their share and 1 to pay for feed) is he then hiring them to do work?

Forget about hiring the neighbor kids to come help bale hay. What about detassling corn? What about running us from field to field moving equipment? Picking up rocks? Mowing grass? All the things that we did that "built character".

[milkmaid]

And what about the kids whose parents don't own a farm but who have other relatives that are involved with agriculture?

What about the Amish? I have a friend who starting working for outside sources at 14.

Just so many things wrong with that proposal.

[ALACOWMAN]

And what about the kids whose parents don't own a farm but who have other relatives that are involved with agriculture?

What about the Amish? I have a friend who starting working for outside sources at 14.

Just so many things wrong with that proposal.

i dont think our idiot laws applies to the amish.... amish.... now there some liberal conservatives, for you

[TexasBred]

Some seem to think this might just totally destroy 4-H and Vo-Ag programs. Just what we need.

[backhoeboogie]

http://www.unions.org/home/union-blog/2 ... rmworkers/

It seems to all go back to, "It takes a village." No more picking up their toys? No more washing dishes? No more making their beds? Where do you draw a line?

[john250]

The Dept of Labor sees this like a Labor Union would see it. Employers are all exploiters of labor, and labor needs protection from a union and a Dept of Labor. Even if it is grandad paying his grandkids for chucking hay.
We're pretty close to a situation where farm kids are the only kids in Jr High who know how to get something done...and well, we just can't tolerate that can we.
Vote, and get your neighbors to vote.

[john250]

Thanks for the link, BHB.

[john250]

The Dept of Labor is going to argue that modern farms are "industrial" and somehow that is going to justify ending 4-H and FFA and parents teaching work to their children.

[ALACOWMAN]

im thankful my oldest son was 4 years old when we bought the farm were on now,, he was with me in the afternoons and weekends that we could .. now he can work me in the ground

[backhoeboogie]

Thanks for the link, BHB.

There's a few more links to the same type of jargon.

Union workers in the maintenance crews here at work are pretty ticked off about all of it, just as I am. They figure it must be coming out of groups in the ghetto or left coast. Looks like it is going to backfire against them politically - at the level I am communicating with here. Most of these union guys have farms, support FFA etc. They have divided a nation but now they are dividing much more. Give 'em more rope.

[circlew]

Everyone needs to watch this video!!!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZ-4gnNz0vc