Down the mines or sweatshops? (3 Viewers)

[Fearandloathing]

My kin worked as children. Farming and Milk production. As soon as they could walk and talk they were put to work.

I was born on a dairy farm.

I started working way before 8

I cannot remember a time when I wasn't somehow involved and needed, usually at harvest time.

There were no grain augers then, we piled hay with pitch forks from the round to the third level.

When we moved to the city I got a paper route at 12. Kept it and grew it for five years.

 

[Hamish Howl]

I didn't see any such post.

What do you think child labor means?

Seriously.

 

[Fearandloathing]

No, I am sitting here watching presumably intelligent bipeds talk about how important it is to get their kids back in the coal mines where they belong.

As long as we get them OUT of the classroom and into the real world.

I've encountered 16 and 17 year olds who have no idea how the bus system works.

Seriously in Vancouver you simply get on the ****ing bus and take a seat.

 

[Phys251]

how's that philosophy worked ?

Yes, it's true that fewer kids are working jobs compared to previous generations. Teenagers are less likely to hold part-time jobs, especially during the summer, than they were in the past. Several factors contribute to this trend, including a greater emphasis on education, increased availability of summer programs and camps, and changing attitudes towards work

This is not about teenagers working summer jobs, which this market makes tougher to get. This is about children not being able to be children, which apparently is the route you want them to take.

Yes, there is evidence suggesting a decline in some areas of U.S. education. Test scores in math and science have declined, and there's a growing concern about the number of students, particularly in higher education.

Spurious correlation.

 

[Hamish Howl]

This is not about teenagers working summer jobs, which this market makes tougher to get. This is about children not being able to be children, which apparently is the route you want them to take

MAGAs aren't happy unless everything is dismal and miserable.

 

[Hamish Howl]

Yes, there is evidence suggesting a decline in some areas of U.S. education. Test scores in math and science have declined, and there's a growing concern about the number of students, particularly in higher education.

That has nothing to do with kids working. It correlates directly with the decline in electronic dance music.

Look for yourself.

 

[RF667799]

What do you think child labor means?

Seriously.

I didn't see anything in the OP but another example of someone lighting his hair on fire and trying to scream his indignation from across the Atlantic. Pretty short on facts.

Think that's the intent? Initiate a Hair-On-Fire dance ritual? It's starting to look like it. Are you going to conduct the festivities and encourage the spastic dancers when they lag?

 

[Hamish Howl]

I didn't see anything in the OP but another example of someone lighting his hair on fire and trying to scream his indignation from across the Atlantic. Pretty short on facts.

Think that's the intent? Initiate a Hair-On-Fire dance ritual? It's starting to look like it. Are you going to conduct the festivities and encourage the spastic dancers when they lag?

Well, yes.

You have to have a laugh.

Is it okay that I said that? I mean, I felt a momentary obligation to be forthcoming. To be transparent. Does anyone object to a transparent Doktor Howl? You can see my innards. It's educational.

 

[Phys251]

MAGAs aren't happy unless everything is dismal and miserable.

Except for the uberrich.

 

[RF667799]

Interesting how teenagers can be moved in and out of the category "children" at the convenience of posters.

 

[Bum]

Did I miss something somewhere?
I do not see any links......is the government mandating children work?

 

[Hamish Howl]

Interesting how teenagers can be moved in and out of the category "children" at the convenience of posters.

Teenagers are already allowed to work.

 

[RF667799]

Well, yes.

You have to have a laugh.

Is it okay that I said that? I mean, I felt a momentary obligation to be forthcoming. To be transparent. Does anyone object to a transparent Doktor Howl? You can see my innards. It's educational.

I didn't say the image of you conducting a spastic ritual dance wasn't funny. I think it's hilarious, but you should give some credit for the spectacle to your whirling acolytes.

 

[RF667799]

Teenagers are already allowed to work.

To an extent. But are they not children?

 

[Peter]

MAGAs aren't happy unless everything is dismal and miserable.

Are we sure Trump isn't Scottish?

 

[Hamish Howl]

I didn't say the image of you conducting a spastic ritual dance wasn't funny. I think it's hilarious, but you should give some credit for the spectacle to your whirling acolytes.

I have acolytes?

If I have acolytes, I need some sort of religious title. There's an opening in Rome, but Trump has dibs on it and you have to be celibate, so I need something else.

The Good Reverend Doktor Howl, Pastor of the First Church of the Wrath of Baby Jesus and Ribshack™.

 

[Napoleon]

So you think the US education system is failing because kids aren't going to work?
You think adding work on top of school will somehow help?

There's a reason almost all the developed world has stopped child working, can you guess what that is?

Um, nobody is talking about toddlers here. In the UK, kids can start working at the age of 13. But here you all are mouthing off because Republicans want to let 14.15,16 year olds get a job if they want one.

 

[Hamish Howl]

Are we sure Trump isn't Scottish?

I gather his family comes from Thuringia, which is the same thing but without haggis.

 

[Peter]

Teenagers are already allowed to work.

Yep, there's a world of difference between a paper round and what Republicans are talking about.

They want kids in proper jobs doing full shifts.

 

[Hamish Howl]

Um, nobody is talking about toddlers here. In the UK, kids can start working at the age of 13. But here you all are mouthing off because Republicans want to let 14.15,16 year olds get a job if they want one.

16 year olds can get a job without any permitting. At will.

14-15 year olds can get work permits with no trouble.

 

[RF667799]

I have acolytes?

If I have acolytes, I need some sort of religious title. There's an opening in Rome, but Trump has dibs on it and you have to be celibate, so I need something else.

The Good Reverend Doktor Howl, Pastor of the First Church of the Wrath of Baby Jesus and Ribshack™.

So you just stir the Burning Hair Mob here as a sort of tune up?

 

[Hamish Howl]

Yep, there's a world of difference between a paper round and what Republicans are talking about.

They want kids in proper jobs doing full shifts.

And they see no reason to wait for the kids to get to high school first.

 

[Hamish Howl]

So you just stir the Burning Hair Mob here as a sort of tune up?

It's not America without some running around and screaming. You know this.

 

[RF667799]

Yep, there's a world of difference between a paper round and what Republicans are talking about.

They want kids in proper jobs doing full shifts.

I didn't see anything in your OP about that. You're sounding more calm. You out of matches?

 

[Allan]

Now that Republicans are rightly putting kids back to work where will you send your children?

The choices will be simple and it's mines or sweatshops as all kids love working in those.
Choose now!!!!!!!

Trump is going to make "beautiful, clean coal" great again.

Boys in the mines, girls in the sweatshops.