Obama to ban kids from farming

[Destroyer]

Originally Posted by jeffmo

Under the rules, most children under 18 could no longer work "in the storing, marketing and transporting of farm product raw materials."
"Prohibited places of employment," a Department press release read, "would include country grain elevators, grain bins, silos, feed lots, stockyards, livestock exchanges and livestock auctions."

seriously,some of these places of work are not for underaged workers.

Perhaps, but that decision is NOT and should NOT be the US Governments ...that decision should rest entirely with the child and the parents of the child. When I see 14 year old kids able to do backflips on 250cc motorcycles in the name of fun, then a little work back on the farm doesn't sound so bad to me. The last thing we need is another government regulation telling us what we, as parents, can and cannot do with our children. Accidents will always happen. When they do, it's a tragic thing for sure, but it's also a part of life. We cannot turn an entire industry upside down just to possibly prevent a few people from getting injured. For some people, that are trying to keep people from getting hurt, it's a noble ambition, and is to be applauded... but hiding in the wings is an entirely different set of people that champion crusades like this, and all the while they are congratulating themelves on how they now control another group of people.

[jeffmo]

Originally Posted by Destroyer

Perhaps, but that decision is NOT and should NOT be the US Governments ...that decision should rest entirely with the child and the parents of the child. When I see 14 year old kids able to do backflips on 250cc motorcycles in the name of fun, then a little work back on the farm doesn't sound so bad to me. The last thing we need is another government regulation telling us what we, as parents, can and cannot do with our children.

Don't those kids on motorcycles have helmets,gloves,boots,etc., for protection??
on family farms there are ALOT of dangers that underage family members/friends are exposed to and shouldn't be.several that always come to mind are pto shafts that have had protective shrouds missing,augers w/out the proper protective covers and kids operating tractors that most don't have proper training on and in many cases rollovers occur.look up the injury numbers associated with farms and then look at the ages of those injured.
I'm not for more gov't but i am very much for protecting kids from un-necessary injuuries or death.I worked on many different farms when i was in school and saw alot of these situations.all it takes is one shroud that has been removed and a split second and the result is forever.
if SOME regulations help remedy the problem then I'm all for it.
all it takes is seeing 1 person who's been caught up in a pto shaft to be convinced that some regulations would help.

[Destroyer]

Originally Posted by jeffmo

Don't those kids on motorcycles have helmets,gloves,boots,etc., for protection??
on family farms there are ALOT of dangers that underage family members/friends are exposed to and shouldn't be.several that always come to mind are pto shafts that have had protective shrouds missing,augers w/out the proper protective covers and kids operating tractors that most don't have proper training on and in many cases rollovers occur.look up the injury numbers associated with farms and then look at the ages of those injured.
I'm not for more gov't but i am very much for protecting kids from un-necessary injuuries or death.I worked on many different farms when i was in school and saw alot of these situations.all it takes is one shroud that has been removed and a split second and the result is forever.
if SOME regulations help remedy the problem then I'm all for it.
all it takes is seeing 1 person who's been caught up in a pto shaft to be convinced that some regulations would help.

I was a maintenance machinist for a lot of years... safety guards missing from equipment is a danger no matter where you are. One of the worst days of my life was when I had to crawl into a Bobst die cutter machine and remove a guys arm that had been torn off because he removed a safery guard so the machine could go faster.
No one is arguing that equipment should be safe. But to say that a PERSON cannot operate that equipment, safe or not, is a completely different matter. I just think that it's the parents call, not some government beauracrat.

[Kracker Jack]

I guess next they will tell me my daughter can not dove hunt with her daddy because guns are dangerous and kill people!!! Another case of a hand full of people speaking for the majority!!!