Update 4-27 – The Obama administration withdrew a controversial new set of regulations for young people working in agriculture Thursday evening.
The Obama administration is attacking small farms in this country. This no surprise given how intrusive the big government apparatus is in this country. The DOL regulations will restrict minors from working on farms. There are 85 pages of unreasonable rules restricting what a child can and cannot do on their family farm. It’s ridiculous.
From Gateway Pundit:
Last year, DOL Secretary Hilda Solis proposed rules that would restrict family farm operations by prohibiting youth under the age of 18 from being near certain age animals without adult supervision, participating in common livestock practices such as vaccinating and hoof trimming, and handling most animals more than six months old, which would severely limit participation in 4-H and FFA activities and restrict their youth farm safety classes; operating farm machinery over 20 PTO horsepower; completing tasks at elevations over six feet high; and working at stockyards and grain and feed facilities. The language of the proposed rule is so specific it would even ban youth from operating a battery powered screwdriver or a pressurized garden hose.
The administration seems to intent on having the federal government in control of EVERY aspect of our economy. Makes you wonder if there will be any occupation that will not be regulated and controlled by the feds. It’s disgusting.
Dr. Ileana Johnson Paugh at Canada Free Press via Gateway Pundit reported:
The Marxist-Leninist dogma said, “A small property generates capitalism day by day, minute by minute, spontaneous, and in mass proportions.” The small-time farmer feeding his family, with a little surplus, was seen as an individual member of the bourgeoisie, requiring squashing.
The commie’s strategy was to turn farmers against the richer farmers through class envy and class warfare and it worked quite well…
…Collectivization was completed in 1962 with medal awarding ceremonies. The chaotic and mismanaged agricultural system under communists experienced such a sustained crisis between 1948-1962, that the effects are still felt today, twenty-three years after the communists lost power.
Can this happen in America? Can we lose our land and property to someone else deemed more deserving by constant leftist propaganda? Can we lose our land to wilderness because environmentalists in control force us to move? Or is it already happening peacefully and silently while the population is being soothed with “hope and change”, lies and fabrications on a daily basis?
Americans are asleep, ignorant, mesmerized, doped up, or so corrupt that they no longer care what happens to their fellow citizens, their children’s future, the future of our country, so long as they have a cushy job, mindless television shows, sports, a pay check, perhaps bribes, comfortable homes, club memberships, vacations, and most of all, intoxicating power and control.
Redistributing wealth is the only thing communists know how to do brutally and stealthily well. Those who do not pay taxes or hold down jobs protest that it is their right to steal someone else’s money. They’ve even come up with a new euphemism, they are not stealing the wealth of producers, they are merely forcing them to “share the burden.”
How much longer before the feds start taking control of family farms? How much longer before they control something that matters to YOU? Regulations are killing this country.
