Just so we’re all clear, migrants are taking American jobs and also we need children to start working those jobs because American adults aren’t willing to do them now that we’ve deported the migrants. Makes perfect sense!
Migrants replaced the Okies when America agreed that you couldn’t do this to white people anymore after WWII. Now we can call kids interns and avoid paying minimum wage.
How are kids expected to study or do homework if they’re working overnight. Also, who is staying with these children to make sure nothing bad happens to them?
This may be the move that eliminates all doubt that boomers consumed our nation's bounty that was given to us by our parents, and left the tab to be paid by our kids.
Ag work in Florida which I did (16-18) in the 1970s. Hot houses were 110 & 120 degrees. Exposure to pesticides. Minimum wage was 10 cents an hour below ($2.20 vs 2.30 a hour). Overtime was 45 hours and not 40. They used Mexican workers and replaced them with Jamaican and Haitian workers.
I feel sorry for anyone doing agricultural work and day labor work in Florida. Many of the vans used for day labor had no seat belts or AC. You can enjoy being thrown to one end of the vehicle to another.
I had my first job at 11. I worked from dawn till dinner time (with breaks in between) as most of my paid our rent. Luckily it was in the summer, but no child should have to give up their childhood so the rich can make more money!
I thought all the magas were gonna be working making merica great and finally stop bitching that there jobs are being stolen ? Turns out they want do that work for so cheap ? Traitors!
POV: Amazing that these “So Smart” people didn’t even recognize the consequences of their actions. Defunding the education system and now putting school age people to work in low wage jobs. Yeah, No…that’s not a viable solution
Pretty soon these wretched policies will be called unpaid internships. Just keep digging that hole. I'm sure that you will find sunlight with enough effort. It is too early for rage.
My 15-year-old is not allowed to spend the night over on a school night. He also would not be able to learn or function without at least eight hours sleep. First, we're starving our children because there's no food at school leaving hungry kids and now they will be sleeping their desk...
And when scores and graduation rates drop, education and educators will he blamed and vouchers and private s hopes will be deemed the answer to help kill public ed a little more
DeDICKis & his cronies don’t care about education, child safety, insurance costs, or the ecology. He is a mini trump wannabe. 2 more years of his homophobia, bigotry, racism, and trying to enrich himself. Fortunately, once he crosses state lines, he instantly becomes a buffoon on the national stage
Who is going to let their child work at 14 overnight and then have to be at school in the morning except maybe immigrants. You are kicking them all out. Not gonna happen.
Will these jobs be sought after, or are these children going to be conscripted by the state to work? Because there's still the issue that these migrants did a lot of jobs that many Americans just didn't want to do.
Business that currently employ teens want to be allowed to work them longer hours and pay them less. This has nothing to do with the labor shortage. Cutting pay and worsening working conditions is not a policy for attracting people into the workforce.
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Me either, many things i wasn’t aloud to do. They say let kids be kids in regard to the LGBTQ community but then this. The republicans states and party is all bullshit. How any could vote for this is just criminal. They all need to be locked up.
Little Timmy trying to decide what’s worse - being grounded for staying out late because of his job, losing his job because the hours are getting him in trouble at home & affecting his performance at school or dropping out of school to focus on his “career” as a dishwasher at Red Lobster.
I worked until 9:30 many evenings when I was in high school, but my parents insisted that it be only two evenings per week and I come home right afterwards. They usually picked me up. I can't imagine expecting a teenager to work overnights, though I can imagine a family needing the money.
Yes. Not long ago, my mom went to England and looked up her grandfather's records at the Bernardo Home. He was surrendered after his father's death and never saw any member of his birth family again. He was severely underweight and had several illnesses including scabies. He was twelve.
He was surrendered because, due to recent widowhood, how mother couldn't look after her sons. They were sent to Canada as "home boys," and we're much better treated than most of the children sent that way. But that's what happens when no social programs exist: destitution that breaks families.
First they allow 14 year olds to work all night even on school nights. Coming soon: FORCING 14 year olds to work all night even on school nights. WAKE UP!
My dad saw 16 year old me standing on a KFC roof with a water hose as they burnt off grease from the hood vents. He reported them, and next week my hours went to 0.
OMG! OUR CHILDREN ARE THREATENED BY GUN VIOLENCE, MANY DON’T HAVE ENOUGH RESOURCES IN THEIR SCHOOLS AND THIS CRACKHEAD WANTS TO SEND THEM INTO UNSAFE WORK ENVIRONMENTS AND DECREASE EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES? WHAT THE SMURF? THOSE JOBS WOULD BE DURING SCHOOL HOURS. SMH! HOW DID WE GET HERE?
They mean poor kids. Black, brown, white..... Any child whose parent doesn't make enough money to pay private school tuition. That's why they're going after public schools. They need someone to replace all those immigrants.
You’re absolutely correct…it’s about punishing people for being poor…that’s what it always been with them. Eliminating public school education assures they will stay poor and more importantly quietly working ourselves to death.
I mean, if you want to get specific: This particular bit is aimed at all poor kids, and "anti-DEI" measures are designed to make sure as many non-white parents (and thus kids) as possible are among the poor.
Same setup where they went after "school bussing" back in the day, just hitting harder.
My meme for most of the news today - and yesterday. F*ck, every day of this insane and hellish week & the past 50 + days. Insantis. He does fit in well with the current group of cowardly repugs.
Florida….how did you not see this coming… this? This= enslaving your children, pay heed… it won’t stop there…next, the Jamestown rule…no work, no eat…?
Disgusting!
Child labor
No Healthcare
No Social Security
Dystopian reality
Disappearing people
Pissing off Allies
Cahoots w Putin
No national security
No free speech
No more elections
The “family values party”? Seems they don’t value our kids & want them as cheap labor to replace the innocent,hard working immigrants they are deporting.Speaks volumes that they get rid of the Dept. of Education but want to lower the age kids can work. This is the party of exploitation,money& power.
I guess if you own the prison industrial complex and legislate child labor you DON'T need to lighten up immigration rules after you kill the family farms,....
Plus for GOPers child labor is pretty much putting up a "Pedophiles welcomed" sign so, win/win for them.
$billionaire propagandists are playing a game ... the stakes are high ... loss of working class rights, wealth, health, safety, and political influence ... and right now, they're winning.
Shutting down public schools and putting kids in mines and factories, being exposed to hazards resulting in lifelong ailments or death is exactly what they meant when they said make america great again. This is not an accident this is by design.
We never did sleepovers…still don’t.only one left at home under 18 he prefers coming back to his own home at night.we’ve also made it very clear that IF he ever felt unsafe or unable to drive home (yes, i am aware of teen activities) he just needs to call one of us and we come and get him.Safely. ✌️
As someone who had 2 jobs plus a side hustle by the time I was 15, don’t do this to kids. Your schooling suffers (if you even bother to go), your relationships suffer & you get taken advantage of from every possible angle.
The goal is to eliminate free public education. Only the children of the wealthy will be able to go to school. They'll put the children of the poor to work as soon as they're old enough to hold a broom, pick up trash, or work in the fields.
I worked the legal maximum when I was in HS. I was also in Student Gov, Drama Club, and led two sections in our school choir. My grades weren't perfect A's but they were good enough to get into every college I applied to. I still went to parties; drank and tried drugs.
My legal “on the books” job was fine. The added load of my 2nd job I was working for cash & babysitting side hustle got me smoking to relieve stress & honestly just to stay awake at the age of 15. I graduated w/ honors but almost didn’t graduate at all b/c I missed 90 days of school my senior year
I worked the grave yard shift when I was 15. I lasted about three weeks. It was almost impossible to go to school and work at this age. I was sleeping in class and had to go home and keep house as well. This is how you insure an illiterate population and children ripe for abuse.
Florida has a labor problem they hope to fill with teens by lowering standards for working conditions and cutting the pay. Under what theory of economic does cutting pay and worsening working conditions result in more people taking jobs?
The one where families that have lost pay will need their teenagers' income to survive. That was why my grandfather worked in the coal mines from the age of ten - his father was dead in WWI and his mother had ten children to feed.
That isn't a theory of economics. What part of labor shortage means that families have to turn to send teens to work sub-minimum wage and night shifts?
The labor shortage isn't the only thing going on. Social security and Medicare are being cut, civil servants are being fired, and the tourism industry is in freefall. A whole lot of people will be losing their jobs, benefits, or some of their pay.
There are a lot of things going on. DeSantis specifically cited the labor shortage and calls for getting more teens in the workforce. That was the scope of my comments. It isn't helpful to bring in other off-topic issues. Your posts are way off-topic since they have nothing to do with GOP policy.
Getting rid of migrant workers is GOP policy too. Killing civil service jobs is GOP policy. All of these things are going to result in an economic downturn where some families will need their teenagers' income even if it means sacrificing their education. You can't separate them.
That is the rhetorical approach Republicans have been using. Arkansas sued the federal government on behalf of workers in Arkansas that wanted the ability to work unpaid overtime.
I'm sure no predators will use it to their advantage either, because no teen has ever been sexually harassed on the job or worse. Florida is just a hot bed of the grotesque. These poor kids.
You're absolutely right about that. You also have think about why a 14 year-old might be working like an adult. They could have a precarious home-life, making them even more susceptible to predators.
Just think!! With no DoE there will be tons of kids with nothing to do. The U.S. could finally be competitive w/Asia in producing goods because those kids will all be available to work in the fields and sweat shops. And what a great solution for child care!! (yes, sarcasm)
With the elimination of the Department of Education and upcoming public school closures, all themtharthose unedumacated brats will need something to occupy their free time 😒
This was all part of the plan. Defund education/jail more people = advocating for child labor/prison work gangs. I don’t know how many more ways republicans can demonstrate that they don’t give a shit about us.
When you’re poor and starving or need a roof over your head.. you will sacrifice your children.. especially the older ones to save the rest of the family.. no rich kids will ever apply for those jobs .. that’s the plan
And no matter how much people try to help, those elder sons and daughters will be unwilling to emancipate themselves. A young person I worked with refused all offers of assistance when their parents had them living with them out of a conversion van. Because only Dems need welfare.
I grew up poor, but had a tight knit extended family.. two of my uncles had productive farms, one owned a Shrimp boat..and they shared their produce with the rest of the family..I started working when I was 13.. weekends and summers..I also fished and hunted .. so luckily I had a decent childhood
This person and their sibling were sole breadwinners. At the time, AMC still allowed immidiate family to watch free movies, that's what their parents did while their kid was at work. Pissed me off.
Bahaha maybe google the poorest people in the US and it’s white people in red states that vote for the GOP and oligarchs that want it that way. DEMS aren’t the welfare hogs. It’s the Wild and Wonderful Whites of West Virginia. Give that a goog too!
I knew a republican guy who waited to marry the mother of his kid so the kid could be born on welfare, even though he had a job with health insurance. Just wanted the freebie.
I know there’s some fraud and abuse in the system, but I’ll tote that load, as long as people in need get some assistance.. corporations, millionaires, Billionaires .. are the real abusers.. their greed has no limits
Yeah, sorry, reached character limit. The person I worked with was GOP brainwashed to believe she was better than anyone who was on welfare or any other type of housing or income based assistance. And bingo on race and type of state.
Floriduh is the dumbest and most backwards state in the country and proves it with every law they try and pass, and every politician they elect. What a shit hole.
That’s because the paramount concern at the time was your ability to focus on your education to set you up for long-term success. Now, it’s on setting children up to be low-wage workers not just for now, but into perpetuity for the long-term benefit of the established capitalist order. Make sense?
And schools time openings to make sure teens get enough sleep because they especially need it at that age. They don’t care about the trauma of being poor and then bitch about dysfunctional young people whose behavior reflects that trauma.
All part of the plan to keep the poor poor
If you work all night, too tired to pay attention in school during day or study in evenings
Gilded Age 2.0
Poor kids work
Rich kids go to school
Poor stay poor
Rich get richer
There's not enough kids to fill those jobs. Plus, not every kid is going to sign up for this. They're literally going to get probably a couple thousand kids a year. Not nearly the numbers they need to make a difference.
I gave up the thought of visiting FloriDUH in 2016 and likely will never visit ever again. FloriDUH showed America the way with toxic, malignant stupid and now we are full to the brim with it. (…and full disclosure, TexASS said, “holdma beer”; that is another state I will not step foot in.)
This is where cops stalking students in schools come in. The school to prison purposes enough. Now they will identify problem families and children earlier and redline them for forced labor camps. Oh and those kids will be primarily brown.
Florida It's time you put Mr. GoGo boots to rest. Clean up your act, Florida. Children are not to be used by Republikkkans for child labor, sexual objects, or any other sick shit they can come up with.
We see the deviants, and they are not Trans, gays or immigrants. Deviants are Republicunts.
Ron DeSantis's kids won't be working overnight and then going off to school without a break. It will be the children of the Floridians the so-called "pro-life" and "Christian" GOP don't give a damn about.
The poor ones.
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They really are just that stupid, aren't they.🤷♂️
Maybe we should burn it all to the ground and start over.😩
Not if we destroy public education and only give vouchers for private school to all the rich kids!
Fuck capitalism.
🍊💩🤡 will send all his political and citizen resistors to concentration camps.
Win win right?
It's like waking up from a nightmare and finding out you've been transported back to the 90's...the 1890's!
Will these jobs be sought after, or are these children going to be conscripted by the state to work? Because there's still the issue that these migrants did a lot of jobs that many Americans just didn't want to do.
Oh wait, no - it's just that immigrants and children are the only ones willing to work under awful conditions for unlivable wages.
Same setup where they went after "school bussing" back in the day, just hitting harder.
Child labor
No Healthcare
No Social Security
Dystopian reality
Disappearing people
Pissing off Allies
Cahoots w Putin
No national security
No free speech
No more elections
Make Servants Great Again!
Sure, that's the solve, Dumb-Santis.
Trump’s America
Plus for GOPers child labor is pretty much putting up a "Pedophiles welcomed" sign so, win/win for them.
The Civil war was not just to keep chattel slavery, but also to keep the poor whites one step above them in a form of modern day serfdom.
The shithole American south:
The land that time forgot.
https://www.keithalanhamilton.com/?p=10768
Just don't force kids to work
They need cheap labor …to work in the fields and factories
Do it for your family.
This administration is inhuman.
Hate being right about this stuff.
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If you work all night, too tired to pay attention in school during day or study in evenings
Gilded Age 2.0
Poor kids work
Rich kids go to school
Poor stay poor
Rich get richer
It would give them a reason to track those children …
We see the deviants, and they are not Trans, gays or immigrants. Deviants are Republicunts.
The poor ones.
Just sayin'