Geo

I have to concede one point: Today’s far-right Republican party does not discriminate against women. In fact, the GOP is giving its female political buffoons a higher profile than its male bozos.

Consider Sarah Huckabee Sanders, governor of Arkansas, who became a star in the new Republican Crusade to bring back child labor abuse. Pushed by their corporate backers, GOP governors and lawmakers exclaim that the answer to America’s so-called “labor shortage” is not to make jobs more attractive, but to fill them with cheap, compliant children.

Huckabee Sanders rushed to the aid of these corporate powers, eliminating a bothersome Arkansas law that required Tyson, Walmart, and other big employers to get a special state permit to put any child under 16 to work. “The meddling hand of big government creeping down from Washington, DC,” she bellowed, “will be stopped cold… We will get the overregulating, micromanaging, bureaucratic tyrants off your backs.”

So she is using the meddling hand of big state government to creep into the lives of vulnerable children. She is not alone. Ohio’s Republican controlled state government is moving to extend the number of hours bosses can make children work; Iowa wants to let 14-year-olds work in industrial freezers and laundries; and Republicans in Congress have shrunk the number of investigators and lawyers policing child labor abuse, so abusive corporate managers know there is little chance they’ll be caught.

Most damning, these corporate politicians value children so little that they’ve set the maximum fine for violating the workplace safety of minors at $15,138 per child. For multimillion-dollar conglomerates, that devaluation makes it much cheaper to endanger children than protect them.

America should not even be talking about child safety rules in dangerous workplaces – it’s shameful to have any children working there.

proud republican Loc: RED CALIFORNIA

You are very annoying...🙄 Biden Admin lost hundreds of thousands of migrant children and was ignoring warning of migrant children put to work in dangerous conditions.


https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/federal-officials-scrutinized-for-ignoring-warnings-as-migrant-children-were-put-to-work

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-admin-pressed-85000-unaccounted-migrant-children-released-us-forced-labor-allegations

liberalhunter Loc: Your mom's house

Spam much?...who cares what Jim Hightowers opinions are..... like yours their stupid and wrong as hell

David L Loc: Central Wisconsin

Hightower went off the rails many years ago. And the same Dems who blast Sarah will try to suppress "Sound of Freedom" or any law that protects children in the womb or protect them from perverts who want to mutilate their young bodies. Getting sicker by the minute.

pescado rojo

Most of the children are illegal immigrants allowed in by your boy Biden. Maybe Hunter needs his crack pipe polished.

Crapy

I believe you demons are the pedophiles and not repubs. How much are you Satanist paying for adrenachrome now?

Wonttakeitanymore

Demonrats don’t want kids or anyone to work they would rather sex traffic them! In cally they don’t arrest under age prostitutes! Go figure! There are worse things than work!

Wonttakeitanymore

Exactly

Samael

Hard work is good for you it builds character I’ve worked full-time in construction since I was 16 considering the surrounding circumstances I consider myself very fortunate to have had the opportunity to work all these years and provide for my family work as a good thing, the federal government through OSHA has established safe, working conditions for everyone in every occupation Hard work is good for you. This country can’t afford people sitting on their asses any longer we need hard-working people best to start training them when they’re young.

Crapy

I agree but looks like the elite want to have AI or robots to replace us. We can't let this happen!

son of witless

" the GOP is giving its female political buffoons a higher profile than its male bozos. "

Why do you hate women ?

F.D.R.

"Make children work?" That's not 'work', that's slavery. The kids would have the choice to work longer hours for the money or refuse. It would be a good learning experience for today's spoiled youth. If nothing else they'd learn what they wouldn't want to do for the rest of they're lives and maybe, just maybe, study more.

J Anthony Loc: Connecticut

Just another in a long list of things proving how regressive we're becoming in this country

J Anthony Loc: Connecticut

Well yeah...no one in either party actually gives a toss about the kids.

J Anthony Loc: Connecticut

What are you, 12? "Demonrats"? How does anyone today still vote for either party, especially at the national/federal level? They're both completely f***ed.