Florida bill to allow teens to work all night and go to school all day moving forward. Florida striving to become the first state to negate all child labor laws.
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I will not support child slavery. I will not buy anything from Florida ever again. Let children be children and not slaves for Elon and Trump. They want your children uneducated and made into slaves for the rich.
I know MAGA will go ballistic on me, but Xi Jinping. And his style of communist government, capitalist economy. (Deng Xiaoping started it) Is exactly what Trump and the GOP want to create. With the GOP becoming the CCP of the USA.
As a Florida native…I’m glad I got out of there before things went to hell. Florida was always a little crazy. But it was the fun “hold my beer and watch this shit” kind of crazy. Not this blatant insanity they’ve been showing for the last decade.
So we chased out the immigrants who were stealing the jobs that our children could get paid for. So much winning! Luckily we love H1B visas to bring in skilled labor from India to do our IT work. Imagine that, India priotizing education more than us. Working on brining a caste system here.
I'm also in IT, but it seems our government working on creating a dalit cast of workers to be overlorded by corporations. I don't blame the Indian H1Bs per-se, but I've worked where others called them the Indian Mafia. USA govenment wants an under-educated, manipulatable class.
I would agree, and really wasn't aware of until an Indian co-worker pointed out to me that the Indian Mafia was something he left India to get away from.
Whatever the ruling/donor class wants, these gop politicians, who are really just their front men, grunts & operatives, will immediately provide. They own them, put them where they are, and keep them there as long as they provide the desired legislation.
This is the STUPIDEST thing Florida has done. Letting kid work all night and go to school all day is disgraceful! Florida has definitely gone Fascism all the way. I will never travel to that state.
Is this their way of replacing the hard working migrants workers they are deporting. I have one question, how long before this law turns into FORCED LABOR?
I find the "Parents know their kids best" part hilarious. For many years I answered support emails for a kids' MMORPG. The one thing it taught me was that most of those parents had never actually met their own kids.
Well, they don't need and educated or rested residents, just ignorant folks who will do the hours...in the fields, on the roads, in the stores, fast food restaurants, etc. Note: I am not saying immigrants are ignorant or dumb - but they are left with the jobs no one wants.
Desantis won't have his kids work. This is what's happening with the Navy. They are accepting recruits without a high school diploma or GED and lowering scoring standards. When you exclude females and people of color, make an all white military, you're gonna have to start recruiting white kids.
Yes I know the standards have been lowered in recent years. But I'm old enough to remember when it was normal for young men and women to enter the military without a high school diploma. Then get their GED while in the military.
Parents, you need to think high and mighty about this state it is dumbing down your children so that they will never have a future. They’ll be too ignorant.
Typical Republican response. Let’s go back to when women and children were the slave labor, so businesses can make more money. In 1920, approximately 1 million children aged 10 to 15, & some as young as 4,
were employed under apprenticeship agreements or as messengers, enduring dangerous ⤵️
conditions in factories and mines, working long hours. In coal mines, children would crawl through tunnels too narrow and low for adults. Children from families at the lower end of the class spectrum were frequently employed, whereas the youths in upper class families were not required to work.
Huckleberry in Arkansas has already green lighted lowering the working age to 14. In a state that ranks near the bottom in education and health care. Pluck Tyson chickens, fuck school.
That is their plan keep them dumb dependent uneducated so they can’t go forward in life. They’ll be stuck never get ahead always be poor. That’s what they want for their kids. That’s pretty sick really sick for people to want that for children some pretty warped ways of thinking there.
This is how we got the vote for under 21-year-old Americans in the 1970s. The attitude being if you were old enough to be sent to Vietnam and die. You were old enough to vote for the person who was going to send you.
And tbh, kids would be much more conscientious voters. They'd be less likely than adults to vote AGAINST their own interests. And people like Cheeto wouldn't stand a chance.
One of the arguments against going lower than 18, (some wanted to drop it to 16) was that under 18 parental influence was too great. That parents could force their kids to vote a certain way.
So.. the kids whose parents can afford to send them to the private school since seems we are leaving public schools to dry up, and those who can’t pay will have to work to help support the family. Is that about right?
Economy that's disgusting kids can't learn if they're so tired they can't keep their eyes open what kind of a****** oh wait yeah it's DeSantis of course he would do something like that!
No surprise that Florida wants to take its population back 100 years. The title 'Florida man', should actually be Florida MEN. Old white rethuglican men are literally turning Florida's population into uneducated, scraping-to-get-by SLAVES!
This is just like Deathsantis to try to replace migrants with school children. He has no compassion or sense of fairness. He is just a bastard who does not care about other people's children.
Next step: outlaw school for working children, "because we're concerned for their safety; working when tired is dangerous and the American People demand that we protect our children. Amen."
That sounds fantastic. Instead of keeping their parents awake at night they can be doing the graveyard shift and earning a few cents to pay towards their parent's unimaginable medical bills.
RETHUGLIKKKANS have an 1860 Abortion ban that make age of consent 10; they want to rape your daughter now the have 12 year Olds working over night in meet packing. Gonna be missing fingers....
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Fucking morons and federal judges need to step in. It's bad enough there are multiple bills to dumb down the kids, and they have horrible Baker Acts laws which go too far and keep kids in filthy mental hospitals sleeping on the floor.
I am so thankful that I had the common sense to get the hell out of that state in 2010. I didn’t like it when I lived there.I thought it was a backward state to begin withThey didn’t offer their employees any kind of benefits to speak of their food coming from up north was tasteless. Cheese terrible
Personally I feel that there's two things Florida needs to join. The United States of America, the 21st century. They seem to be stuck in 1862 and the CSA.
Florida also only has two (technically three) good things:
- Walt Disney World
- Universal Studios
- Kennedy Space Center (not sure if it really counts because I think it might be federal land since NASA is part of the federal government 🤷♀️)
For context, the industries affected are the agricultural, construction and hospitality industry. So I made a post about imagining a 14 year old working at a construction site. The general consensus: they’re okay with it.
This is because they refuse to pay a living wage that an adult could live on. So they drag the kids out of school and put them to work and help drive the wages down for adults.
This isn't just Florida, it's American business today.
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FVCK GOV. Hitler DeSantis.
FVCK THE MORONS that VISIT Florida
We are gonna have a job crises soon, methinks even if we open up the labour force, there would be no way it fixes the issues cropping up...
Damn, I wanted whips!
(What a crock of Orange Cheeto Crap)
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I sure hope that Disney isn't a part of this 🐂 💩
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Making kids work nights and go to school days isn’t policy.
It’s exploitation.
It’s abuse.
And it’s happening in plain sight.
And most kids can recognise what Trump and his type are. Unlike far too many adults.
#Rapepublicans
It is quite literally what Karl Marx described in Victorian England. In excruciating detail.
Child labourers in the mines and factories. Cheaper than adults, won't talk back nor strike.
I know you live with an incessant barrage of terrible legislation, but come on!
When are you going to stand up for yourselves, or at least your children?
Fight back!
What else should I blame when wealthy people are above the law, and use their influence to force others into utter destitution and slavery?
Am I supposed to find a disenfranchised minority to hurl slurs at?
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Sexual Pwr Games
Political Pwr Games
Economic Pwr Games
Religious Pwr Games
Military " "
The games interact;
Cleopatra & Julius Caesar
Russia's military power game depending on & sabotaging it's internal economic power game.
Teknology affecting all!
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- Walt Disney World
- Universal Studios
- Kennedy Space Center (not sure if it really counts because I think it might be federal land since NASA is part of the federal government 🤷♀️)
Next up: work houses and debtor prisons.
This isn't just Florida, it's American business today.