Family farms are run by families. Obama is working hard to close family farms.
“Under the rules, 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.”
He also wants to end 4-H and Future Farmers organizations and replace them with government.
Any doubt he is a totalitarian? For the moment he is withdrawing the regulations—re-elect him and they will go to press before the votes are finished being counted.
Rural kids, parents angry about Labor Dept. rule banning farm chores
By Patrick Richardson, Daily Caller, 4/25/12
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, 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 this. 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.”
So instead we just let our kids be a bunch of
Lazy bunch of back talking kids that all they
Want to do is play video games. GREAT CHOICES!!
September 10, 2012 at 7:14 am
I would like to know how the people in DC plan of eating. Oh that’s right they plan on killing out all the small family farm so the DC can control everything. What about those farmers who have to farm to feed their family? What will they try to take away next? They have taken prayer out of schools. When taking calves off the the packing plants every cow that comes off the trailer has to have a “animal priest” come to read the cow its last rights and be forgiven!!! DC has and is still trying to take away the right to bare arms and since they haven’t been able to accomplish that, now they are going to make it to where ammo is going to be impossible to buy. Plus a parent no longer has the right to spank their child without it being considered abuse. Now they are wanting to take the parents right away to teach their children responsibility and that to have anything in life you have to actually work to have things in life! Oh that’s right, I guess that automatically when a child turns 18yrs old all this knowledge and work ethics are just going to come to these children as they lazily hang out playing video games or watching television. Well Obama all I can say to you is, my children will be out working in the fields, on a tractor, hauling grain, and if they act disrespectful or step out of line I do, can, and will bust their butts. I might be considered a back woods red neck but u can bet when I am out there throwing bales of alfalfa and feeding the livestock my boys and daughter will be right there working right along with me or they will be out doing everyones chores alone. It will only take once for them to see that the biggest problem with this wonderful country is the idiots we have running it.
May 5, 2012 at 4:39 pm