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April 28th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
Under pressure from farming advocates in rural communities, and following a report by The Daily Caller, the Obama administration withdrew a proposed rule Thursday that would have applied child labor laws to family farms. ~ See articles
Critics complained that the regulation would have drastically changed
the extent to which children could work on farms owned by family
members. The U.S. Department of Labor cited public outcry as the reason
for withdrawing the rule.
“The decision to withdraw this rule — including provisions to define
the ‘parental exemption’ — was made in response to thousands of comments
expressing concerns about the effect of the proposed rules on small
family-owned farms,” the Department said in a press release Thursday
evening. “To be clear, this regulation will not be pursued for the
duration of the Obama administration.”
The rule would have dramatically changed what types of chores
children under the age of 16 could perform on and around American farms.
It would have prohibited them from working with tobacco, operating
almost all types of power-driven equipment and being employed to work
with raw farm materials.
“Prohibited places of employment would include country grain
elevators, grain bins, silos, feed lots, stockyards, livestock exchanges
and livestock auctions,” read a press release from last August.
“I am pleased to hear the Obama Administration is finally backing
away from its absurd 85-page proposal to block youth from participating
in family farm activities and ultimately undermine the very fabric of
rural America, but I will continue working to ensure this overreaching
proposal is completely and permanently put to rest,” said Sen. John
Thune, Republican from South Dakota. “The Obama DOL’s youth farm labor
rule is a perfect example of what happens when government gets too big.”
Parents and children who grew up on farms across the country told TheDC that the rule was overprotective and would have prevented kids from learning valuable skills at early ages.
“Losing that work ethic — it’s so hard to pick this up later in
life,” said Cherokee County, Kansas Farm Bureau president Jeff Clark.
“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.”
Rep. Kristi Noem, Republican from South Dakota, also applauded the effort to scale back the rule.
“I want to thank every farmer, rancher and young person who joined
many of us in Congress to speak out against this proposal, which would
have fundamentally changed the way folks have been farming and ranching
for generations,” she said in a statement. “I continue to agree that
safety on farms and ranches is imperative, but telling kids they can’t
do 4-H or farm-related chores is not the answer.”
The Daily Caller’s story about
the proposed regulations quickly went viral on Wednesday, attracting
hundreds of thousands of readers through Facebook, The Drudge Report and
other online and social media platforms.
Paul Conner – April 26, 2012 – DailyCaller
NOTICE!… KEEP AN EYE ON THIS…
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