By Robert Heiney
If you're like most Americans, your time is occupied trying to pay your bills, bring up your children, and if you have any time left over, volunteer in your community. It's stressful and exhausting. Average Americans have little time for politics or watching their elected thugs in government. The royalty occupying their splendid digs in Washington DC however, spend their time and your tax dollars thinking of new ways to meddle in your personal affairs.
(image:mainstay farm)
Now back to the article. What makes our government think that they have a right to meddle so deeply in our lives? They aren't doing a stellar job of managing my tax dollars. If the government is setting an example worth emulating, perhaps I will listen and learn.
But as it stands right now......butt out.
If the Sheriff chooses, he can prevent the federal government from intruding in any citizen business by just arresting them once they are told they are not welcome.
Will Brad White have the stones to do this....I sure hope so. I am quite sure the citizens of this county would stand behind him 100 percent
The theme of this article appears to be how the current communist administration is meddling in family farms and the farmer's use of his own children's labor.
Here is a direct quote from the proposed regulation:
"The prohibition of employment in hazardous occupations does not apply to youths employed on farms owned
or operated by their parents. In addition, there are some exemptions from the prohibitions:
• 14 and 15-year old student learners enrolled in vocational agricultural programs are exempt from certain
hazardous occupations when certain requirements are met; and
• minors aged 14 and 15 who hold certificates of completion of training under a 4-H or vocational
agriculture training program may work outside school hours on certain equipment for which they have
been trained."
So we see, if we read the regulations, the entire article has little merit. Children in one's own family are clearly exempted from regulation.
Further, if one checks on past rules, young people already had similar restrictions. There are no significant changes in the Federal law from existing Georgia law.
If someone wants to make a point, they should get their facts straight.
operating a tractor of over 20 PTO horsepower, or connecting or disconnecting an implement or any of its parts to or from such a tractor;
operating or working with a corn picker, cotton picker, grain combine, hay mower, forage harvester, hay baler, potato digger, mobile pea viner, feed grinder, crop dryer, forage blower, auger conveyor, unloading mechanism of a nongravity-type self-unloading wagon or trailer, power post-hole digger, power post driver, or nonwalking-type rotary tiller;
operating or working with a trencher or earthmoving equipment, fork lift, potato combine, or power-driven circular, band or chain saw;
working in a yard, pen, or stall occupied by a bull, boar, or stud horse maintained for breeding purposes; a sow with suckling pigs; or a cow with a newborn calf (with umbilical cord present);
felling, buckling, skidding, loading, or unloading timber with a butt diameter or more than 6 inches;
working from a ladder or scaffold at a height of over 20 feet;
driving a bus, truck or automobile to transport passengers, or riding on a tractor as a passenger or helper;
working inside: a fruit, forage, or grain storage designed to retain an oxygen-deficient or toxic atmosphere; an upright silo within 2 weeks after silage has been added or when a top unloading device is in operating position; a manure pit; or a horizontal silo while operating a tractor for packing purposes;
handling or applying toxic agricultural chemical identified by the words "danger," "poison," or "warning or a skull and crossbones on the label;
handling or using explosives; and
transporting, transferring, or applying anhydrous ammonia.
The prohibition of employment in hazardous occupations does not apply to youths employed on farms owned or operated by their parents. In addition, there are some exemptions from the prohibitions:
14 and 15-year old student learners enrolled in vocational agricultural programs are exempt from certain hazardous occupations when certain requirements are met; and
minors aged 14 and 15 who hold certificates of completion of training under a 4-H or vocational agriculture training program may work outside school hours on certain equipment for which they have been trained.
They were bashing FFA and the 4H Club.
So, if they backed off the proposed rule, what rule was it that wasn't being considered as you state?
The larger issue here is the incessant desire for a renegade federal government to force more controls over American citizens. The communist agents in the US federal government have a long history of forcing their hob nailed boots on farmers. Nothing in the US Constitution permits much of anything the organized crime syndicate in Washington DC does on a daily basis. Some 70 years ago, communists in the White House successfully forced a farmer to burn his own crops because he produced more than he was permitted. (See Wickard vs. Filburn)
That proud USDA tradition continues today.
These tyrannical acts by thugs in the federal government are why I “rant”. Because America is being destroyed by the syndicated crime family called the US federal government. They are law breakers.
Not much has changed in 45 years. This farm labor thing was also true a few years ago here in Georgia.
It's just silly to make a big deal out of something someone told you was a new proposal, that really isn't anything at all.
While ad hominem attacks are fashionable, they only play to those already on the same team, or to fools. It would be nice to see some effort at laying out a long term plan, including factual, traceable, supporting data.
It seems to me our real problems, in no specific order, are:
1.) The dumbing down of our younger people, as compared to the rest of the world. The rest of the world not only has more people (which creates a larger brain pool), they have better equipped youth in the workforce. We are what, about 17th now, and in a state that is near the bottom of a 17th place country? Why not worry about that?
2.) An out-of-control reward system for those who do not care to work, but bring children into the world.
3.) Exporting of manufacturing jobs. This was a goal started in the mid-80's, when a popular leader declared manufacturing unimportant, and that we should and could be a fully service-based economy
4.) Lack of affordable health care for the poor to middle working class. Health care is a major problem, and the leading cause of bankruptcy in working middle class people
5.) A tax structure that places most of the burden, as a percentage of disposable income, on the working middle class. This also started in the mid-80's, with the trickle down theory that is an obvious failure
6.) Big money having far too much control
My factual data is in my memories. I worked at a peach packing plant in Thomaston, GEORGIA on my sister's (she was 14) work permit. I was 13 at the time. The state could not have cared less about working conditions. They should be worried about creating jobs now.....but thanks to Bill (try this cigar) Clinton's signature on NAFTA. WE AIN'T GOT NO JOBS! Furthermore....if we did......a vast amount of young people enjoy unemployment benefits, welfare benefits, and the freebies of jail too much to work. Sorry breeds sorry....can you imagine the shape of America after obama's next 4 years?
Over 4 million babies are born in America in a year. 16 MILLION more little brains being conditioned to "GIMME" as their pacifier.
I hope I am watching from Heaven when The Christian walls of America finish toppling.
obama is so busy bragging about killing bin laden that Americans do not realize he has killed God in the minds of many of our young generations.
BUT...the BIBLE must be fulfilled so let anti-christ obama rock and roll.
Beam me up Jesus...by November 7, we will have elected an atheist for two terms in America. Heaven help us!
There is a clear pattern here. It's actually quite easy to see.
American citizens need to see the actions of the various federal agencies and start putting two and two together. My hope and change will be to see these agencies shut-down forever.
That will put this nation back on the road to liberty, sound money, and prosperity for all. Sugar coated communism a/k/a socialism will do nothing more than create a wretched class and an elite class.
1.) The dumbing down of our younger people, as compared to the rest of the world. The rest of the world not only has more people (which creates a larger brain pool), they have better equipped youth in the workforce. We are what, about 17th now, and in a state that is near the bottom of a 17th place country? Why not worry about that?
And why is that Tom? Have you noticed that homeschooled students and private school students tend to be better educated and perform higher on standardized tests? And this is not an indictment of the teachers but the government system itself.
2.) An out-of-control reward system for those who do not care to work, but bring children into the world.
LOL! Can't argue with that!
3.) Exporting of manufacturing jobs. This was a goal started in the mid-80's, when a popular leader declared manufacturing unimportant, and that we should and could be a fully service-based economy
Piggy Republicans and Communist Democrats. What we really need is to throw them both out and at least attempt to elect true constitutionalists. Get rid of federal agencies. Eliminate the 80% or so of unconstitutional regulations and laws.
4.) Lack of affordable health care for the poor to middle working class. Health care is a major problem, and the leading cause of bankruptcy in working middle class people
Health care was very affordable until insurance companies got into the business. Of course, few people know that happened when wage and price controls were instituted by a very popular leader in the 40's. Health insurance was supposed to circumvent the wage controls problem and provide employees with a “raise” the socialists in government couldn't touch.
5.) A tax structure that places most of the burden, as a percentage of disposable income, on the working middle class. This also started in the mid-80's, with the trickle down theory that is an obvious failure
The vast majority of taxes are paid by the “rich” - people with household incomes over $250,000 per year. This can easily be verified. The percentage is something like 80 or 90% paid by the wealthy with the poor paying next to nothing. OK – disposable income. How much more money would you like the government to extort from people who make over $250,000 per year? That's going to be fairer? You're a successful businessman. Want to volunteer to pay more?
6.) Big money having far too much control
Yup – agree with you on that one too, Tom! But let's not leave the hogs in government out. They have way too much control too. That in fact is the fallacy in Ayn Rand's novel, Atlas Shrugged. The bigger a company gets, the more socialism they demand. I believe for example that the insurance companies are behind some of the attacks on liberties in this country. Every time they can initiate a law, they make more profit! Big government and big business – it's a beautiful thing.
Thanks for taking the time to offer your thoughts. While we may disagree about the format of political messages, the problems are what they are.
It is unreasonable and unworkable to look only at dollar amounts. People should pay tax as a percentage of what they hoard for themselves. If they want to make and keep a lot of money, pulling it out of circulation, they should pay tax.
If they spend or invest money to somehow create American jobs or education, or as a necessary direct social benefit to others less fortunate, they should get a break.
Our system is clearly broken, and it is broken because we listen to people who have only self interests, or who do not understand the big picture.
About 100 people lost jobs when a textile plant in Forsyth moved manufacturing to China. The company got a tax break, and consumer price stayed exactly the same for obviously lower quality goods.
Taxpayers, not the company, pay the lion's share of extended unemployment payments, pay to re-educate or re-train those one hundred people, and we pay 60% or so of their health insurance costs for an extended period.
This is what happens when big business and big money write the rules.
They educate and brainwash what used to be the middle class, to blindly support what is good for them.
This is all a result of trickle down and illogical free rewards for moving jobs offshore, none of which has ever been tied to a successful economic result, but which people insist on continuing. We continue this, and fight hard to ensure it keeps up, because we allow advertising and people who control the media to lead us by the noses.
The same is true with health care. We have the world's most expensive system, and some of the poorest national health, for countries with a high gross national product. This is because the health care industry and those who make money on health care manipulate our choices.
We have very complicated problems, and the answer is not likely to be found by calling people socialists, or by blindly following the political spin of those who make money, and stay in office, by taking from the majority of working Americans to give to the richest, laziest, and poorest.