They want 'em stupid and uneducated. It's the only way they'll get votes. Never mind that you cannot have a successful country with a stupid, uneducated citizenry.
Allowing kids to work on their family's farm is one thing. They grew up surrended by the work they would do. They have institutional knowledge of the work, but most farms are turning into factory farms because they'll be priced out of the market if they don't. This is closer to kids working in slaughterhouses, a notoriously dangerous trade. Allowing 14 year old kids to drop out of school and work in an industry noted for its hazards is plain criminal.
Farm work is hella more dangerous than working at McDonald's. The point of restricting it to agriculture is to keep it out of the eyes of an off-and-on compassionate public.
It would appear that too many people in power have been reading too much Ayn Rand - or were just shark-souled miserable predators to begin with, and didn't need to be even that literate. Perhaps mushy liberals like the ones who follow Robyn and Stephen just don't buy the (fictional) story of Rand's coal industry titan Ken Danagger, who voluntarily started working in a coal mine at the age of twelve and was a multi-millionaire (in the 1950s, mind) by age forty.
Instead of getting killed in a fire-damp explosion or succumbing to black lung.
That, in Rand novels anyway, happens to weaklings and losers who deserve it, not to heroes.
One side effect that I'm sure the Rs have thought about is that these kids will do worse in school, be more likely not to complete school and far, far less likely to go to college thereby ensuring a less educated citizenry-something the Rs love.
I imagine this notion applies only to other people's children. Repubs love rules for other people, but they consider them to be only guidelines for themselves. If that.
Come on folks, Rep. King's bill is only going to affect the poors! Everybody else will be just fine. And with less kids in school then we'll need less teachers and that means saving money! Wait, why are you walking away? I'm sure Rep. King has some more wonderful ideas to share.
Reading this, one image arose in my mind. A tractor ad from at least a century ago. One of my correspondents tends to use it in his pro-automation/luxury atomic space communism/etc propaganda. Took me a while to find it and without scouring the public domain revue, alas the link is to Reddit, but here:
Sarah Huckabee Sanders could send her kids up to Indiana to work there, since she's so hot to bring back child labor exploitation. I don't means her state's kids. I mean her own.
Someone needs to ask the GOP why they hate children. "Why won't you think of the children?" to echo one of their lying liar cries from a few years back.
They want 'em stupid and uneducated. It's the only way they'll get votes. Never mind that you cannot have a successful country with a stupid, uneducated citizenry.
Allowing kids to work on their family's farm is one thing. They grew up surrended by the work they would do. They have institutional knowledge of the work, but most farms are turning into factory farms because they'll be priced out of the market if they don't. This is closer to kids working in slaughterhouses, a notoriously dangerous trade. Allowing 14 year old kids to drop out of school and work in an industry noted for its hazards is plain criminal.
Farm work is hella more dangerous than working at McDonald's. The point of restricting it to agriculture is to keep it out of the eyes of an off-and-on compassionate public.
I fail to see how this advances the project of "Idiocracy."
Keeping people illiterate by letting their parents enslave them for labor is peak conservatism.
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So I assume Joanna's offspring will be opting out of secondary education and joining Dwight Schrute on the beet farm?
It would appear that too many people in power have been reading too much Ayn Rand - or were just shark-souled miserable predators to begin with, and didn't need to be even that literate. Perhaps mushy liberals like the ones who follow Robyn and Stephen just don't buy the (fictional) story of Rand's coal industry titan Ken Danagger, who voluntarily started working in a coal mine at the age of twelve and was a multi-millionaire (in the 1950s, mind) by age forty.
Instead of getting killed in a fire-damp explosion or succumbing to black lung.
That, in Rand novels anyway, happens to weaklings and losers who deserve it, not to heroes.
Ta, Robyn.
Damn few of us have plans to be Amish.
Considering even they have molesters in their midst, that they protect, hell, no!
You can easily find those plans on the internet.
One side effect that I'm sure the Rs have thought about is that these kids will do worse in school, be more likely not to complete school and far, far less likely to go to college thereby ensuring a less educated citizenry-something the Rs love.
I imagine this notion applies only to other people's children. Repubs love rules for other people, but they consider them to be only guidelines for themselves. If that.
Come on folks, Rep. King's bill is only going to affect the poors! Everybody else will be just fine. And with less kids in school then we'll need less teachers and that means saving money! Wait, why are you walking away? I'm sure Rep. King has some more wonderful ideas to share.
Reading this, one image arose in my mind. A tractor ad from at least a century ago. One of my correspondents tends to use it in his pro-automation/luxury atomic space communism/etc propaganda. Took me a while to find it and without scouring the public domain revue, alas the link is to Reddit, but here:
Keep the Boy in School!
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Sarah Huckabee Sanders could send her kids up to Indiana to work there, since she's so hot to bring back child labor exploitation. I don't means her state's kids. I mean her own.
But somehow it's never their OWN kids they mean.
Someone needs to ask the GOP why they hate children. "Why won't you think of the children?" to echo one of their lying liar cries from a few years back.
They are thinking of the children. They're just not very nice thoughts and only for other people's children.
How does a political party continue to ensure a permanent underclass? Bills like this.
The economy depends on it!