14 year olds American kids are going to start climbing up 20 foot ladders and roofing in 100f heat? Or start working as home health aides wiping asses and feeding dementia patients? Or work in the fields picking crops in the summer heat for 12 hours a day?
"Our teens have grown too soft playing video games and preening on social media, allowed to become so due to their liberal parents. Having back-breaking farm labor jobs after school hours will shape them into functioning and responsible members of society again."
They should try working third shift before asking children to. Did they ever read The Jungle, C’mon! Maybe Biden knew we were short on labor and opened the door to get our economy ramped up. Banking on 14 year olds is not a wise business plan.
Perhaps instead of a mandatory two year enlistment in the military, there should be a mandatory two years of picking fruit and vegetables. That would fix the labor shortage!
Oh, and a few years ago , a local winery offered good money to "anyone " to come and pick grapes. Teenagers and adults lasted at most, a few hours. Haha! Of course, I had already learned my lesson trying to be a lemon picker.
True story, I was first string basketball, football, wrestled, and ran track in high school. Took a job picking lemon orchards. I rode in the green truck, I was the only white guy in the bunch. Nobody spoke English. I picked hard and fast! But not fast enough to keep the job. Too slow! Respect!
Trust me, none of these legislators from the @floridagop.bsky.social are having their kids work overnights. They are also not sending their kids to technical or vocational schools.
They are still sending their kids to Ivy League colleges and the University of Florida.
Gotta do something drastic when you have an aging and declining population but still insist on shutting down immigration by painting them all as evil bad guys.
It is also proof that anyone aside from the ultra rich is cannon fodder to fill the gaps these failed policies have created. Even if it means putting children to work. Remind me- this is the party of family values and protecting our children? Yeah right.
Is this how we make America great again? Not opposed to 14 year olds working during the summer, but, education has always been the key to creating a better life.
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"Our teens have grown too soft playing video games and preening on social media, allowed to become so due to their liberal parents. Having back-breaking farm labor jobs after school hours will shape them into functioning and responsible members of society again."
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They are still sending their kids to Ivy League colleges and the University of Florida.
…. When you’re some type of evil rat that you think those jobs belong to our children.
Hey, Floridians, see how we need immigrants now? And all other states impacted, take note.
Hard to deny this is all about racism now, isn't it?
out of fucking control
Hell, you can't even get them to work. Period.
to rise in mass incarceration in minority communities.
This Admin's definition of domestic terrorism will ravage them, as RICO/Conspiracy laws have Black communities.
Young men's proximity to gangs will have them disappeared to work farms under a weaponized 13th Amend.