A Proposal From The Obama Administration

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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.


Read more: Child Labor Laws | Farming | Department of Labor | The Daily Caller
 
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JayVols said:
Agreed. I'm sure all those hours in the tobacco patch and the hay fields in scorching heat bordered on child abuse. I wouldn't trade them for anything.
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Hmmm...Your tobacco fields musta been better than mine. Dang, I still hate those days! Farking sticky itchy stuff. Hated suckering that crop.
 
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My biggest complaint about liberals is that they seem to know what's best for people they have little connection to.

edit: This probably works for conservatives as well.
 
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If you’re working your own parent’s farm, the new rules don’t apply at all, and the act also contains many exemptions for programs, like 4-H, aimed at giving youth experience working on farms.
 
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Danl said:
Hmmm...Your tobacco fields musta been better than mine. Dang, I still hate those days! Farking sticky itchy stuff. Hated suckering that crop.
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"Put that baccer in the barn, aint yall glad we on the farm."
 
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Danl said:
Hmmm...Your tobacco fields musta been better than mine. Dang, I still hate those days! Farking sticky itchy stuff. Hated suckering that crop.
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The work sucked. Time with my dad.....priceless.
 
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JayVols said:
The work sucked. Time with my dad.....priceless.
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I'm glad you feel that way.

Me..obviously not so much. It was too hot to plant it, hoe it, sucker it, and put it up. Then it was too cold and damp when you hand it off.

Then the tobacco barn/tobacco company experience was always pretty disheartening. The whole damn tobacco farming industry was (is??) rigged.
 
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Weezy said:
My biggest complaint about liberals is that they seem to know what's best for people they have little connection to.

edit: This probably works for conservatives as well.
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Gay marriage?
 
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This guy sums it up well

Republican Rep. Denny Rehberg said the new rules would harm family farms and were going too far.

“I just don't think the bureaucrats at the Department of Labor get it,” Rehberg said. “Only in Washington D.C. would anyone assume that a faceless bureaucrat is better equipped to look out for a child's best interest than a parent.”
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The proposed bill also takes safety training away from 4H and requires a Federal government training program. Thank you from saving us from ourselves.
 
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I remember cutting/stripping tobacco. Hands are covered black and most of the time there was no cloud in the sky and 15 degrees when we were stripping. I don't remember it being itchy though.

I know that my work ethic would not be the same had I not grew up on a farm. Dying breed
 
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JayVols said:
Agreed. I'm sure all those hours in the tobacco patch and the hay fields in scorching heat bordered on child abuse. I wouldn't trade them for anything.
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True dat.

And the pay was great too! All the food I could eat and a bed to sleep in, clothes to wear, etc.

And don't forget cutting the firewood. We sold many, many ricks every year.

And the garden...

And sloppin' the hogs...

And robbing the chickens...

And the mechanic work...

And building the house...

And... oh, I'm getting tired just thinking about it.

I wouldn't pass any of it up for anything. The things I learned. The trouble I stayed out of. The time with my dad. I hope I can come close to giving some reasonable facsimile to my kids someday.
 
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volinreallife said:
I remember cutting/stripping tobacco. Hands are covered black and most of the time there was no cloud in the sky and 15 degrees when we were stripping. I don't remember it being itchy though.

I know that my work ethic would not be the same had I not grew up on a farm. Dying breed
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Itchy, but not when cutting/stripping/tying. We called that process "handing off". Itchy when it was hot and humid and we were "suckering" the crop. And removing those bigass tobacco worms that looked like they could sting you, but couldn't.

While I attribute a good bit of my work ethic to having grown up on a dirt poor farm, I have often wondered if I would have done just as well growing up in, shall we say, more affluent environs.
 
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RespectTradition said:
True dat.

And the pay was great too! All the food I could eat and a bed to sleep in, clothes to wear, etc.

And don't forget cutting the firewood. We sold many, many ricks every year.

And the garden...

And sloppin' the hogs...

And robbing the chickens...

And the mechanic work...

And building the house...

And... oh, I'm getting tired just thinking about it.

I wouldn't pass any of it up for anything. The things I learned. The trouble I stayed out of. The time with my dad. I hope I can come close to giving some reasonable facsimile to my kids someday.
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Nothing like farming to teach a work ethic. Me and my dad became best buddies on my farm and on the ball fields. He's gone now, but I can step out on my front porch, survey the farm, and know that he is near. Good memories. (I built my house on the same plot that we put the tobacco patch to ensure that I would never handle another stalk. How's that for a grudge?)
 
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Danl said:
Itchy, but not when cutting/stripping/tying. We called that process "handing off". Itchy when it was hot and humid and we were "suckering" the crop. And removing those bigass tobacco worms that looked like they could sting you, but couldn't.

While I attribute a good bit of my work ethic to having grown up on a dirt poor farm, I have often wondered if I would have done just as well growing up in, shall we say, more affluent environs.
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We called it grading. We had ground leaves, short reds, long reds, and tips for grades. We also hand tied it and packed it in baskets. There wasn't any of this baling in only two grades crap. That's cheating. I remember topping and suckering when the dew was still on the leaves. I would get very light-headed and dizzy often followed by a splitting head ache. I later learned those feelings were more than likely from nicotine overdose. The nicotine can leech from the leaf into the water and enter via pores in the skin. That might be a contributor to the itchy feeling as well.

If you really want to discuss itching, lets talk about putting up 1,000+ square bales in 85-95° heat in poison ivy. That's itchy......

Edit: Tobacco horn worms are evil looking critters.
 
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JayVols said:
We called it grading. We had ground leaves, short reds, long reds, and tips for grades. We also hand tied it and packed it in baskets. There wasn't any of this baling in only two grades crap. That's cheating. I remember topping and suckering when the dew was still on the leaves. I would get very light-headed and dizzy often followed by a splitting head ache. I later learned those feelings were more than likely from nicotine overdose. The nicotine can leech from the leaf into the water and enter via pores in the skin. That might be a contributor to the itchy feeling as well.

If you really want to discuss itching, lets talk about putting up 1,000+ square bales in 85-95° heat in poison ivy. That's itchy......

Edit: Tobacco horn worms are evil looking critters.
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Good times, JayVols
 
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I remember going to get my learner's permit in Kansas in 1978. I was 15 but my farming friends had already had their license for a year so they could drive the farm equipment. Seems we are going backwards...
 
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