More Liberal Double Standard
Thankful for our children on the farm
Children Working on the Farm
Posted on November 28, 2011 by Garrick Hall
The US Department of Labor is proposing to change the regulations regarding children working on farms. The new rules will ban children from dangerous activities such as working on a hay stack higher than six feet above the ground, using any power tool, or herding cattle with a horse. Under the new rules children would be required to complete at least 90 hours of classroom instructions before they could be hired to work on a farm. As you might imagine, as the father of six young farm children, this proposal concerns me. So I wrote these comments and submitted them the Department of Labor for their consideration.
I am concerned about the Department of Labor child labor rule, “Child Labor Regulations, Orders and Statements of Interpretation” (RIN 1235-AA06). I have been involved with agriculture all my life. As a young boy I helped my grandfather and my uncles on the family dairy farm doing everything from milking cows and feeding calves to hauling hay and helping in the fields. I count my experiences on the farm as a great blessing in my life. The lessons I learned helped form me into the man I have become. Had these proposed new rules been in effect when I was a boy, my helping on the farm would have been against the law. One of the great memories I have of growing up on the farm is each fall filling the old hay loft with approximately 2000 bales of straw. This was a hot dusty job that was performed well above the six foot high limit proposed by the new rules.
Today I have chosen to raise my six children on a small family farm, this farm happens to be incorporated. Not only do I have my children help on the farm, I have many neighbors who practically beg me to give their children a job and the opportunity to learn to work too. The proposed changes would prevent me from allowing children to work on my farm, and rob them of the valuable lessons that they could learn.
http://www.fb.org/blog/2011/11/28/children-working-on-the-farm/
Everytime Liberals get involved in something postive it turns out negitive. At least Newt Gingrich is right. For you liberals dont understand the meaning of work.
THE WORLD DOES NOT OWE YOU A LIVING
YOU HAVE TO WORK HARD TO COLLECT IT!
