This government has failed. It has failed to the point where it basically doesn't exist and we're on autopilot.
Home prices have fallen so far that buyers last year don't have homes worth what they paid for them. US companies are adding workers but only overseas.
The alarm bells have been ringing and the presidebt does what? He passes laws mandating wheel chair lifts in all public pools or they must be shut down. He tries to prohibit farm chores for children on family farms. In this time of economic crisis he shutters power plants and closes coal mines. He ignores serious problems for grand gestures like an unpopular and unworkable health care bill. He interferes in state's rights. His goal is not improvement but social engineering. He runs not on innovation but the coolness factor.
Meanwhile the nation continues to disintegrate, limping along in spite of obama not because of him.
Lets see. No the governement has not failed. Home values are deflating because they were overvalued. Why do you hate the disabled? Family farms are not effected by the recent rules on child labor. Healthcare reform was very popular. The Republican plan that the ridculously endorsed is not.
With all due respect, Boo? Might be time to get the glasses checked...
The notion of healthcare reform WAS very popular. The American people wanted something done about exploding costs. ObamaCare, however, is NOT popular because it didn't bring down the average persons healthcare costs...it actually increased them. That's the reason why Democrats are running AWAY from ObamaCare this election cycle instead of running ON it.
And this ridiculous talk of not allowing teens to work on family farms illustrates how completely out of touch with reality progressives really are.
With due respect back oldstyle, refresh what is behind the eyes.
Telling parents they can’t have their kids do chores on the family farm is outrageously, egregiously wrong. An offense against freedom and family. An example – yes, National Review – of “creeping despotism.”
Except it turns out thereÂ’s a lot of manure involved in this enterprise, too.
Before it backed off, the Department of Labor was indeed attempting to expand child labor laws to farms.
These rules would have covered paid workers, not kids working for their parents. This exemption would have applied to incorporated family farms and jointly owned family farms.
If the rules had been adopted, farmers would have been prevented from hiring kids younger than 16 for many farm jobs – with exceptions for 14- and 15-year-olds. The rules would have prevented a farmer from hiring a 15-year-old – or a 13-year-old – to drive a tractor. Or to work at a grain elevator or stockyard. Or to handle explosives or poisons.
Was this government overreach? Another way to look at it is this: It would have been a very slight tightening of the leeway granted to farm employers that no other employer in the country enjoys with regard to the safety of workers ages 14, 15, 16 and 17. You canÂ’t hire a 14-year-old to drive a forklift at your factory, even if he is your neighbor and you love America.
I drove a tractor when I was way younger than 16. I tend to think it was no big deal – not a vital function of the American farm family nor a grave threat. We drove all kinds of vehicles at a young age. Did that teach us to be hard-working? Decent? Was there something in that tractor-driving that made us who we are as a nation? I’m guessing no.
I do know this: A teenager in my town died in a tractor accident on his family farm. Another almost died when he was buried in corn silage. During the 1990s, around 70 teenagers died every year doing farm work. Most of those deaths involved younger teens and heavy equipment.
Maybe thatÂ’s just the price of freedom. I mean, itÂ’s not really that many kids.
Manure deep in farm child-labor debate - Spokesman.com - April 27, 2012
