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If you can’t afford to continue running that farm, then sell it. After all, you didn’t build it.
Sometimes even in Washington, Common sense happens!
Let me get this straight… the House HAD to pass legislation to prevent the Labor Dept. from doing some thing they said they were not going to do?
Really? This is what we need to do in right now?
What a joke!
Common sense may have prevailed, but don’t tell that to Rep. Woolsey sho said, it “prevents a rule that has already been prevented by special interests” and which would have increased protections in an industry that is one of the most hazardous for young people.
So now the small family owned farms which were the ones primarily against the law are “special interests?”
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Ever taken a look at what foods are subsidized? Ever heard about FDR’s comment on why he subsidized farm markets?
It was not to lower the cost of food you tool.
He explicitly stated that INCREASING the cost of food was necessary to force inflation and end the depression. He specifically burned crops and destroyed farms to do so. The farm subsidy was a method to INCREASE food cost. In reality it was to force people to become like you, believing since it was high cost and the government subsidized it, that must mean we cannot survive without the government. It was one of FDR’s many invasive and failed policies.
More importantly: Mostly the foods that are extremely bad for you are subsidized: AKA corn. Most the food that the average American buys (who isn’t at poverty level) is not a subsidized food.
It’s also interesting to note that after the markets were subsidized, poor people ate worse.
We really need more subsidy eh? My nutritionist major friend revealed that one to me. The poorer class used to be healthier than the richer, the reason was that processed foods were actually a high cost to produce. Chocolate, ding dongs, partially hydroginated oils, breakfast muffins, processed milks, the comfort foods we eat today. The rich loved those back then but they were higher cost than natural foods, like fruits, vegetables, natural grains, etc. Today thanks to the subsidies, the average American is eating trash and even that is expensive.
The farming industry got along just fine for 5,000 years without the help of a bunch of “ninnies” (oooppss) ‘nannies’ in Washington working to preventing the education of the young to develop self reliance and a work ethic.
“The Labor Department spent more than a year developing the new safety rules…”
I wonder how much that cost?
I wonder how the percentages of these children under 16 getting hurt doing work that I did as a kid compare to kids getting hurt doing other things. Things they learned playing video games. Things they dare each other to do out of boredom. My husband started driving a tractor when he was 7 years old. I was in pea patches and bean fields by the time I was 5. I was pulling weeds in peanut fields for “money” at age 10. My mother picked cotton by hand from the age of 6. They preach against child obesity and yet when you give a kid a job to do that involves manual labor, you are putting them in danger. Do they not think parents care for the safety of their own children? I for one wish that the government keeps out of my household. I feel that I have the right to raise my children to work for what they get in life and to do a good job the first time. I am not going to put my children in harms way, but they are going to learn nothing in life is free or comes easy.
Once again the Federal government wastes time and money. However, when you waste twelve trillion dollars in three years and have to borrow fron China to pay the interest this is a drop in the bucket.
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The Obama administration hit $1.10 trillion in spending deficit so far this year and it is not even August. He has spent more than every other president combined and then some. His spending has caused tremendous pressure on US credit ratings (there may be a credit rating downgrade) and his waste will be paid for over many generations if that can even be done without going bankrupt.
Hi Sargent, Exactly!! And can you just imagine how much more the deficit will grow if Obama gets another election? I shudder at the thought…
Hello Always,
Well, we know the forcast is somewhere between $12 to $15 trillion in deficit spending as of today (Depends on which forecast you believe). So, if you extrapolate that out and take into consideration the offsets that even obama plans to implement (consider them token), you could say we could expect somewhere north of $20 Trillion dollars in deficit spending. Or we go broke in the process. One problen we will have, the same as Greece will be debt service. If we can’t meet of our debt obligations (loan repayment for Planet) we will default and that has NEVER happened in US history. We will become a deadbeat nation not able to meet our loan and financial obligations. I honestly think Obama hires people based on a high nincomepoop factor or none of them ever attended a college economics class.
Another problem is seniors on a fixed income are getting a huge shafting in this as Obama plans to take a minimum of $500 billion out of Medicare and limiting healthcare (witholding treatment) for seniors of the age of 76. I am not sure planet understands the difference between borrowing and deficit spending and how the two impact each other. If we don’t fire them in November, we are in trouble.
I’m so old I remember when Republicans were saying “deficits do not matter”. Then, a Democrat took office.
Which democrat Captain Planet? It better not be Clinton. He not once talked about balancing the budget. That was Newt and the 1995 republican congress. Clinton fought so hard it caused a government shut down. The fool.
Before then we hadn’t had a surpluss in darn near 40 years. We had not had a republican congress in the same time period. Coincidence?
George W worked with 2 recessions, one in 2000 and one in 2003. That was why the tax cuts were passed. Revenues dropped from the recession, not the tax cuts. Most people forget he cut them as a result of revenue drops and economic decline. It is interesting to note the recessions were short lived, even after the destruction of the world trade center.
Bush worked well with what he was given. He came after a boom and did pretty well after that boom popped (internet bubble). Obama inherited a recession, a bad one. As a matter of history, with the exception of only the great depression, recessions the worse they are the more growth you have when they stop. The reason? Increasing from the bottom is easy. Increasing from a near peak is hard. Consider working out: You’re out of shape, and you start doing the right things. You get tons of progress. You’re in fairly good shape. You get to a peak that is near impossible to pass, and then you become an Olympian if you surpass it. How many people become Olympians? Practically none. Comparatively in Bush’s tenure, the world had just got out of a boom, and was edging a recession. All the countries collapsed. Bush did well in comparison. He’s an Olympian. Obama is the fat man at the beginning of his work out barely able to break a @%@!!ing sweat or lose a pound.
Deficits, as long as they are manageable, are not always a bad thing. In a 2004 interview then Senator Barry Obama said that George Bush’s deficit was “fiscally irresponsible”.
I also remember when Barry Obama, during the campaign in 2008, told crowds how bad the deficit was. Now Barry has spent more money in 3 years than Bush did in 8 and it is not done growing. His spending is not manageable. It is a road to bankruptcy.