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One of my Senators, a Republican of course, is not in favor of this rule from the Department of Labor. I don't know any farmers in this state who really think it is good either. How many enforcers will the Department need to hire to enforce this fool law?
It is so obvious that all the Dept. of Labor is hoping for is that only union labor will be able to do the work. Farmers prefer to pay their kids and other teens of the area over and above union people. They hate union labor nearly as much as anybody else does, out here in the sticks.
Yesterday one of them told my son who was working on his tractor that he is pretty sure that, even as big as his farm is, if they drive this one through Congress his family will have to just let the EPA and the Labor Dept. work their farm for them. I think that most farmers don't understand how all that crap worked out in the Soviet Union. It won't work here any better but many of the labor and left thinkers don't understand it either.
It's not about the unions, Roy. It's about Big Agribusiness taking over more and more family farms. They want to lobby the Feds to stamp out as many independent businesses and farms as possible, and hand them over to the polluted, corporate farms. Unions have nothing to do with this
This administration wants to strip the art of family farming out of the US. They don't want any kids growing up knowing how to farm. Communists are famous for things like this. Not only will they be able to say where we get our food from, they can control it and cause famine when they want to.
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