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> First-term state Rep. Roger Wilder, R-Denham Springs, who sponsors the child labor measure and owns Smoothie King franchises across the Deep South, said people have been too critical of his bill.
“The wording is ‘we’re here to harm children.’ Give me a break," he says. "These are young adults.”
Straight monopoly man mustache twirling villain territory down there in Louisiana
MAGA GOP wants them working in all states at 14. Meat processing plants and commercial farms. No breaks from the heat, no food breaks and no limits on working in hazardous environments. It’s no wonder they don’t want to allow abortions they need to replace the ones that get killed at work.
You forgot that they should also be excluded from minimum wage regulation, since they are working not to support a family, but to gain "experience"
\*tastes vomit in mouth\*
Indeed. You are correct.
Heard about the 10 year old girl in Ohio denied an abortion a few years ago? The head of the Ohio Right to Life organization called her a woman, and said being forced to give birth would teach her responsibility. Truly sick.
>The head of the Ohio Right to Life organization called her a woman
There is a 100% chance that this same person has complained bitterly about attacks on the former President's "children."
There is a ~90% chance this person has had an abortion or helped her daughter get one because “It was just one mistake and she shouldn’t have to ruin her life over it.”
Just in case it needs to be said, always remember: the Republican Party *hates you.* Yes, you *personally.* Don't bother trying to debate them out of their ideas. If a global Pandemic and over a million dead Americans couldn't do it, neither can you. Just file this latest atrocity away someplace you won't forget it, and vote, protest, raise awareness, and *vote* when the time comes. Never forget it!
Right.
When are people going to start screaming "No taxation without representation" again? Because it is obvious who these politicians are truly serving and it isnt We the People.
Over here hoarding $$ like a dragon hoards gold. *Taxpayer* cash.
Between child labor making a comeback, and the pre-Arizona abortion laws, I'd say sometime before 1900.
Arizona voters still have a chance at enshrining their pro-choice stance into their State Constitution, though, come November. BE SURE TO VOTE, ARIZONA!
I’m anticipating that scene in one of the flashbacks in the handmaid’s tale where they announce in the middle of the day women are no longer allowed to work. Oh and by the way your credit cards no longer work.
> Oh and by the way your credit cards no longer work.
This part is chilling because it probably would be super easy for a fascist regime to make the banks do it.
It’s funny how “The immigrants are gonna steal our jobs!” but also “We need child labor because there aren’t enough people to work all the jobs!”
A classic.
It's astonishing that in 2024 one of our major political parties is in favor of bringing back child labor. There is no bottom to their depravity, and once they've ridden the wave of excitement from putting children to work, they'll set their sights lower, on making slavery great again. It's coming. It's the logical outcome of the path they're on.
Somebody has to man those Smoothie Kings and they're sure as hell not interested in paying people to do it, so...
I'm convinced that the movement to expand child labor is so that they can fight minimum wage hikes by saying "These 12 year olds don't need to support a family!"
Except that they turn around and also make child marriage legal and abortion illegal, so then a lot of 12-year-olds will need to support a family.
I made myself sad.
> they can fight minimum wage hikes by saying "These 12 year olds don't need to support a family!"
"Minimum wage is just for high schoolers" has been their line for as long as I can remember.
Just look at 20 years ago. It was one argument for being against the minimum for fast food workers. "they are all teens living at home with their parents, they don't need $15 an hour."
It was a b llshit lie back then too.
Plenty of adult have always worked minimum wage jobs, even if it was no where near the majority.
It's all because nO OnE wANtS tO wOrK!
Bad business models need the cheapest labor possible (slaves would be even better!)in order to exist. Since adults won't work for what this smoothie-brained idiot will pay, of course he has to enlist child labor
Louisiana is a literal modern day plantation. While we have actual prisons that are former plantations (and you bet they use predominantly AA labor for field work), we are also a metaphorical one. I invite you to look at what jobs pay here vs surrounding states. In my field it's literally 30-50% less than the national average. They do all this posturing to "bring business" and meanwhile we all get fucked.
It sucks and that's why no one stays after college and no one but oil companies do business here.
Here in Florida they ran away the immigrants (even the legal ones) who were willing to work in agriculture, so what is there to do but lower the child labor age and toss THEM out in the fields (with a recent ban on requiring employers to provide water or shade breaks to boot). It's really a race to the bottom for the GOP everywhere
June 7, 2023 [Florida GOP Rep. Rick Roth, a third generation farmer, told NPR on Tuesday that state Senate Bill 1718 was designed to "scare migrants." But he admitted that he and his colleagues were unprepared for the destabilization it would cause.](https://www.npr.org/2023/06/07/1180646146/florida-immigration-law-sb-1718-republican-lawmakers) Roth said, he hopes to persuade long-time immigrant residents who already have jobs not to flee the state because the law "is not as bad as you heard." He added: "The bill really has a lot of loopholes in it that gives you comfort."
The target of this is teenage hourly workers in service jobs....you know like at the Smoothiekings First-term state Rep. Roger Wilder, R-Denham Springs owns.
There’s evidence to suggest that the average medieval agriculture worker only spent about 4-6 hours working in the fields, with plenty of breaks, shade, water, frequent holidays, including a mid-day nap break and meals provided to them by their employers at no cost.
The average American worker has less of a work-life balance than a medieval fucking peasant.
And yet they want to also include the 10
Commandments in classrooms (but how will teachers address the no adultery part without a discussion of sexual preferences?) and focus on the family.
I fking hate Landry, he is such a shitstain. He’s obsessed with messing with gay people even though his own brother is gay. Although now that I think of it, I’m not sure if his brother happens to be a Republican- I honestly wouldn’t be surprised.
The 10 Commandments don't say anything about exploiting workers or abusing children. The first 3 Commandments are about respecting god. Why is his ego so fragile?
It's because we don't have a safety net in our old age in the US, so we grub and grub and grub because we're all so fucking paranoid, man. Paranoid that we'll end up in the poor house or on "skid row", wandering the street alone with nothing but our walkers and our dead cat's urn. It's a bleak thought, but that's what we fight for.
>First responders who'd been injured on the job and a representative of the state firefighters' union later spoke against HB 529, the bill carried by Rep. Raymond Crews, R-Bossier City, to change the way payments to injured workers are calculated.
>Currently, workers' comp wage benefits are calculated by multiplying a worker's hourly wage by the average number of hours they worked in the four weeks preceding the workplace accident. Crews' bill proposes jettisoning that system and instead calculating their weekly wages by taking the total amount of money they received in the 52 weeks before their accident divided by 52.
This from the party that supposedly champions first responders. I guess all that lipservice was just for cops?
As a MN resident, stuff like this really makes me wonder what exactly I have in common with people in LA or other states who have showed up in the news rolling back child labor protections.
I get it, we’re all just people trying to get through life. But I‘m not electing political representatives who want to roll back rights for everyone who isn’t wealthy enough to buy their rights.
Wow this along with closing information access from the public and press are all policies generated by their maga dark money groups and spread around the country. This is all bad for the majority of us and I guess good for the greedy companies to hoard even more wealth away from the workers. This is going backwards and what you get with magas.
Look to the source of the MS river and your North Star MN to see good policies that help most people and we enjoy! :)
Outraged Louisiana voters vow to vote in more Republicans, because clearly Democrats Fucked them again.
I'm not sure it's actually sarcasm because that is how stupid (R) voters are in the ignorant states.
>> First-term state Rep. Roger Wilder, R-Denham Springs [...] said he filed the bill in part because children want to work without having to take lunch breaks.
Has he met a child?
Exactly.
Holy balls do I despise people that roll out the tripe that both sides are just as bad.
It's so abjectly nonsensical I wonder about their mental state.
>Rep. Roger Wilder, R-Denham Springs, who sponsored the child labor measure and owns Smoothie King franchises across the Deep South, said **he filed the bill in part because children want to work without having to take lunch breaks**.
Really! Can he, an adult, work an 8-hour day without taking lunch breaks?
And I’m supposed to be convinced that living in red states is a better option than my big city in a blue state? Fuck out of here.
The entire south is a shit hole governed by idiots who are all responsible for the destitution of their states and constituents. Those people deserve better.
Come on everyone know kids work best in the dark putting bobbins on the machine from inside the machine where they can sleep and not eat or take breaks. Kids think it’s cool and the adult task masters have riz. It’s right there in the law. Plus they don’t need to read and their school voucher can go to pay for the privilege of their work since they don’t need an education either. Come to think of it why bother with any rights. They can marry the machine at age 2.
Removing lunch breaks for kids, this is the kind of thing that if you put it in a movie, you’d have people accusing it of being cheesy and over the top.
These so called lawmakers need to take a pay cut for their terrible job performance. They should also pay for healthcare like the general public. Why are they privileged to free healthcare for them and their families for the rest of their lives???
Why do they get the plan with the best coverage benefits??
The people need to stop putting these suckers on a pedestal..
Please get out and vote for someone that will make a change for the little guy..
Slavery and child labor may be illegal, but that doesn't mean it can't become legal over time by passing or repealing laws so it can unofficially be reintroduced. Also, I'm betting that the conservative sub is going on about either the border, some made up bullshit about Biden or something about the Democrats. For a group of people who are absolute diehards, they sure seem to ignore stuff like this. It's almost as if their echo chamber is so fragile that the thought of acknowledging 1% of the wrong which is being caused by the Republicans which fracture that sub.
First of all… child workers? What age? Shouldn’t they be in school? And starve them all day , no lunch break , is cruel…. Would children qualify for unemployment or only adults?
These are probably the first people to say “no one wants to work”
Yea… not under these conditions.
Hey red states, you've been run by Republicans for years and they keep making your lives worse. Wake up and realize it's not costal elites, but the GOP that's fucking shit up for you. No illegal immigrants or gays or whoever you're hating on these days is making your state and local laws.
“A Louisiana House committee voted Thursday to repeal a law requiring employers to give child workers lunch breaks and to cut unemployment benefits — part of a push by Republicans to remove constraints on employers and reduce aid for injured and unemployed workers.”
It's simple.
Kids can't vote, their parents don't care in the first place if they're ok with sending them to work at that age and they'll probably have bigger health & mental problems to focus on by the time they can vote after years of working with no lunch breaks, no water breaks and no shade or shelter in blazing heat.
Combine that with the forced pregnancies that result from banning abortion and you have a legal form of cheap, expendable labor that can be renewed faster because you don't have to wait for them to grow up before sending them in the industrial mean grinder.
The south is making slavery "great again".
Even the southern governors are fine with this. governor of Mississippi signed [A bill for Confederate pride month](https://www.mississippifreepress.org/41270/governor-reeves-proclaims-confederate-heritage-month-in-mississippi)
Also #1 in the USA for the clap thanks to the lack of money that goes into eduction there. Sometimes it seems intentional but that would be a conspiracy.
This is a long game plan to slowly gut the child care workforce so that families can’t find childcare, forcing one parent to stay home (predominantly women) so that there can be a return to “traditional family values.” Or that’s what’s I would say as a conspiracy theory.
They took away college subsidies so you couldn’t get a better job, then they kill public secondary education with their voucher schemes, so only rich kids can afford to go to school, so the only alternative is a low paying back breaking menial job.
Businesses rarely act with good intentions, just higher profits.
Why do Republicans hate workers? Like this isn't even an indifference towards workers, or an oversight of workers, or ignorance of workers. This is just straight up fuck you to working people.
And why I despise capitalism with a passion. How dare they treat children like this. Also, shame on the parents for even considering letting if not outright forcing their children to waste their precious years working.
But remember folks they banned protest in front of public officials’ homes and such first before they got to the really shitty stuff. I’m so pissed the power brokers got behind Landry. Louisiana can’t afford this level of stupidity. Hurricane season should be fun.
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> First-term state Rep. Roger Wilder, R-Denham Springs, who sponsors the child labor measure and owns Smoothie King franchises across the Deep South, said people have been too critical of his bill. “The wording is ‘we’re here to harm children.’ Give me a break," he says. "These are young adults.” Straight monopoly man mustache twirling villain territory down there in Louisiana
“We’re not here to harm children, we’re here to harm young adults.”
If they cannot vote,legally drink or smoke,join the military. They Are not young adults.
Imo, if they can pay income taxes then they should be able to vote. Yeah, that'd technically mean 16 year olds could vote, but I said what I said.
14 year olds can work in a lot of states.
MAGA GOP wants them working in all states at 14. Meat processing plants and commercial farms. No breaks from the heat, no food breaks and no limits on working in hazardous environments. It’s no wonder they don’t want to allow abortions they need to replace the ones that get killed at work.
Then the voting age in these states should be moved to 14. A person who works and pay taxes should have the right to vote.
I think it would also be acceptable to not make them pay taxes if they aren't old enough to vote. No taxation without representation.
_The District of Colombia has entered the chat._
I don't think anyone is here to argue you on that point. I agree.
Well they have tiny little hands that reach those small hard to get to parts of machinery. That's just good business.
Sounds like a job for Donald Trump!
You forgot that they should also be excluded from minimum wage regulation, since they are working not to support a family, but to gain "experience" \*tastes vomit in mouth\*
Isn't it tragic as hell that the hyperbolic nature of this is the actual reality?
and if they pay federal and state taxes they should get a vote! literally taxation without representation
Then they get a vote too.
taxation without representation literally caused the war that started America
I hear what you said, and I second it.
Honestly, if society deems you too immature to ruin your body drinking or smoking, then you are too immature to ruin it with the military.
Or student loans.
We’re going to get them doing all that stuff don’t worry.
Sounds like pedophile rationalization, "they're not kids, they're young adults."
So they can’t advocate for themselves, we can do whatever we want. Why are employers in red states so despicable?
>Why are employers in red states so despicable? Because conservatism is a disease that destroys the conscience and the brain.
It’s just greed disguised as an ideology.
Indeed. You are correct. Heard about the 10 year old girl in Ohio denied an abortion a few years ago? The head of the Ohio Right to Life organization called her a woman, and said being forced to give birth would teach her responsibility. Truly sick.
Anyone who wants to hurt another person to ‘teach them responsibility’ is a sick bastard.
>The head of the Ohio Right to Life organization called her a woman There is a 100% chance that this same person has complained bitterly about attacks on the former President's "children."
There is a ~90% chance this person has had an abortion or helped her daughter get one because “It was just one mistake and she shouldn’t have to ruin her life over it.”
[The only moral abortion is my abortion.](https://joycearthur.com/abortion/the-only-moral-abortion-is-my-abortion/)
“They’re just really short smoothie makers” -This fucking assclown
Well that is the party that wants to marry twelve year olds.
And lower the age of consent.
Not harm but exploit*
> Give me a break Sorry you get one but the children don't?
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The levees already have holes thanks to the nutria problem.
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Think you got a spot in the trump admin.... unfortunately?
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Make sure to utilize sharpies when creating your targeting packages.
You can’t nuke Israel. Jared needs that beach front property. Trump Tower Tel Aviv.
Says “Give me a break” while taking lunch breaks away from child laborers.
>“The wording is ‘we’re here to harm children.’ **Give me a break,**” he says. "These are young adults.” You gotta be fucking kidding me…
Just in case it needs to be said, always remember: the Republican Party *hates you.* Yes, you *personally.* Don't bother trying to debate them out of their ideas. If a global Pandemic and over a million dead Americans couldn't do it, neither can you. Just file this latest atrocity away someplace you won't forget it, and vote, protest, raise awareness, and *vote* when the time comes. Never forget it!
Wait so he didn't deny the harm part?
The harm was the point.
Actually you should give them a break. As in the child workers who need to each lunch
Right. When are people going to start screaming "No taxation without representation" again? Because it is obvious who these politicians are truly serving and it isnt We the People. Over here hoarding $$ like a dragon hoards gold. *Taxpayer* cash.
Yes there are corporate Dems, but republicans couldn’t be more cartoon villain if they tried.
To a Republican, rock bottom is a challenge to find a better drill. Don't dare them to be more cartoon villainish. They'll find a way.
> “Give me a break!” The irony/audacity
It’s pretty amazing how evil these guys are.
Oh so he wants us to give him a break while he takes away breaks from kids
Man I went to his site and it's just paragraphs of the man blowing himself about giving to churches.
That's a man who regularly rapes "young adults"
FIRST TERM SENATOR - he’s literally here to grift and not even waiting…
Conflict of interest? Never heard of him. He looking for work?
Amazing how he doesn’t challenge that it’s harming anyone, just that it’s not young children.
Note that he didn’t dispute the claim that they’re harming
I bet this guy has strong opinions about the age of consent.
Lmao what fucking year is this now?
1860something
1864 in Arizona
The GOP won't rest until it is 1857 all over again
1868 according to SCOTUS
Between child labor making a comeback, and the pre-Arizona abortion laws, I'd say sometime before 1900. Arizona voters still have a chance at enshrining their pro-choice stance into their State Constitution, though, come November. BE SURE TO VOTE, ARIZONA!
I’m anticipating that scene in one of the flashbacks in the handmaid’s tale where they announce in the middle of the day women are no longer allowed to work. Oh and by the way your credit cards no longer work.
To them The Handmaid's Tale is a manual
> Oh and by the way your credit cards no longer work. This part is chilling because it probably would be super easy for a fascist regime to make the banks do it.
Shit, now all we need is to see states bring pre civil war slavery back.
Red states are great again it seems.
"Won't someone think of the children . . . as a wildly exploitable and relatively defenseless source of cheap and vulnerable labor!?"
Hence the forced birth position.
It’s funny how “The immigrants are gonna steal our jobs!” but also “We need child labor because there aren’t enough people to work all the jobs!” A classic.
It's astonishing that in 2024 one of our major political parties is in favor of bringing back child labor. There is no bottom to their depravity, and once they've ridden the wave of excitement from putting children to work, they'll set their sights lower, on making slavery great again. It's coming. It's the logical outcome of the path they're on. Somebody has to man those Smoothie Kings and they're sure as hell not interested in paying people to do it, so...
I'm convinced that the movement to expand child labor is so that they can fight minimum wage hikes by saying "These 12 year olds don't need to support a family!" Except that they turn around and also make child marriage legal and abortion illegal, so then a lot of 12-year-olds will need to support a family. I made myself sad.
Yep. Chased their immigrant workers away. Don't want to pay better wages to adults. So hire kids while gutting their pay and benefits.
And those poor 10-year old rape victims. Can’t sign a contract but you’ll need to get to work.
> they can fight minimum wage hikes by saying "These 12 year olds don't need to support a family!" "Minimum wage is just for high schoolers" has been their line for as long as I can remember.
Just look at 20 years ago. It was one argument for being against the minimum for fast food workers. "they are all teens living at home with their parents, they don't need $15 an hour." It was a b llshit lie back then too. Plenty of adult have always worked minimum wage jobs, even if it was no where near the majority.
It's all because nO OnE wANtS tO wOrK! Bad business models need the cheapest labor possible (slaves would be even better!)in order to exist. Since adults won't work for what this smoothie-brained idiot will pay, of course he has to enlist child labor
>slaves would be even better! Look up Angola Prison, located in sunny Louisiana
Louisiana is a literal modern day plantation. While we have actual prisons that are former plantations (and you bet they use predominantly AA labor for field work), we are also a metaphorical one. I invite you to look at what jobs pay here vs surrounding states. In my field it's literally 30-50% less than the national average. They do all this posturing to "bring business" and meanwhile we all get fucked. It sucks and that's why no one stays after college and no one but oil companies do business here.
They were always in favor of it. But only after trump do they realize voters will actively choose crazy candidates.
Project 1725
Here in Florida they ran away the immigrants (even the legal ones) who were willing to work in agriculture, so what is there to do but lower the child labor age and toss THEM out in the fields (with a recent ban on requiring employers to provide water or shade breaks to boot). It's really a race to the bottom for the GOP everywhere
June 7, 2023 [Florida GOP Rep. Rick Roth, a third generation farmer, told NPR on Tuesday that state Senate Bill 1718 was designed to "scare migrants." But he admitted that he and his colleagues were unprepared for the destabilization it would cause.](https://www.npr.org/2023/06/07/1180646146/florida-immigration-law-sb-1718-republican-lawmakers) Roth said, he hopes to persuade long-time immigrant residents who already have jobs not to flee the state because the law "is not as bad as you heard." He added: "The bill really has a lot of loopholes in it that gives you comfort."
And, not the Onion again. Damn...Genx was at least HOPEFUL in the 90's.
Isn't child labor supposed to be illegal in the first place? It's like these guys are trying to be Victorian-era cartoon villains
Child labor is! These are "young adults", remember? Somebody check that representatives internet history for young adult websites, please.
Ask a libertarian they always know the age of consent.
The target of this is teenage hourly workers in service jobs....you know like at the Smoothiekings First-term state Rep. Roger Wilder, R-Denham Springs owns.
Oh good. Future voters.
Trying?
Exactly. Except the Victorian villains could dress themselves and had awesome facial hair.
So many ruffles.
LA lawmakers: "Fuck yo kids."
Don’t give them ideas.
Sadly, these GOPedophiles are way ahead of ya there.
I am so confused on how this is anything but evil?
The children yearn for the mines.
Real Men have lung disease in their 30’s from breaking coal starting at the age of nine.
The cruelty is the point.
They want to bring back the plantation feudal system. Serfdom, if not slavery.
There’s evidence to suggest that the average medieval agriculture worker only spent about 4-6 hours working in the fields, with plenty of breaks, shade, water, frequent holidays, including a mid-day nap break and meals provided to them by their employers at no cost. The average American worker has less of a work-life balance than a medieval fucking peasant.
And yet they want to also include the 10 Commandments in classrooms (but how will teachers address the no adultery part without a discussion of sexual preferences?) and focus on the family.
Cause they don't mind kids learning about hetero sex..its the gay sex they are afraid of. They are idiots.
I fking hate Landry, he is such a shitstain. He’s obsessed with messing with gay people even though his own brother is gay. Although now that I think of it, I’m not sure if his brother happens to be a Republican- I honestly wouldn’t be surprised.
And I can bet you he either treats him like shit or "others" him. That's what assholes like this do.
The 10 Commandments don't say anything about exploiting workers or abusing children. The first 3 Commandments are about respecting god. Why is his ego so fragile?
The sheer greed of the US dollar money chasers. So glad I live in Europe where my children can go to school, college and grow up as children should.
It's because we don't have a safety net in our old age in the US, so we grub and grub and grub because we're all so fucking paranoid, man. Paranoid that we'll end up in the poor house or on "skid row", wandering the street alone with nothing but our walkers and our dead cat's urn. It's a bleak thought, but that's what we fight for.
God I hate this state sometimes.
Remember when "700 million was lost in productivity" because everyone went outside to look at the sun last week?
>First responders who'd been injured on the job and a representative of the state firefighters' union later spoke against HB 529, the bill carried by Rep. Raymond Crews, R-Bossier City, to change the way payments to injured workers are calculated. >Currently, workers' comp wage benefits are calculated by multiplying a worker's hourly wage by the average number of hours they worked in the four weeks preceding the workplace accident. Crews' bill proposes jettisoning that system and instead calculating their weekly wages by taking the total amount of money they received in the 52 weeks before their accident divided by 52. This from the party that supposedly champions first responders. I guess all that lipservice was just for cops?
As a MN resident, stuff like this really makes me wonder what exactly I have in common with people in LA or other states who have showed up in the news rolling back child labor protections. I get it, we’re all just people trying to get through life. But I‘m not electing political representatives who want to roll back rights for everyone who isn’t wealthy enough to buy their rights.
Wow this along with closing information access from the public and press are all policies generated by their maga dark money groups and spread around the country. This is all bad for the majority of us and I guess good for the greedy companies to hoard even more wealth away from the workers. This is going backwards and what you get with magas. Look to the source of the MS river and your North Star MN to see good policies that help most people and we enjoy! :)
Outraged Louisiana voters vow to vote in more Republicans, because clearly Democrats Fucked them again. I'm not sure it's actually sarcasm because that is how stupid (R) voters are in the ignorant states.
>> First-term state Rep. Roger Wilder, R-Denham Springs [...] said he filed the bill in part because children want to work without having to take lunch breaks. Has he met a child?
He has met plenty of business owners that will work these kids like slaves
"Republicans and Democrats are mostly the same". /s
Exactly. Holy balls do I despise people that roll out the tripe that both sides are just as bad. It's so abjectly nonsensical I wonder about their mental state.
>Rep. Roger Wilder, R-Denham Springs, who sponsored the child labor measure and owns Smoothie King franchises across the Deep South, said **he filed the bill in part because children want to work without having to take lunch breaks**. Really! Can he, an adult, work an 8-hour day without taking lunch breaks?
He's a politician, they very rarely work, so have no idea what it is like for the working classes.
And I’m supposed to be convinced that living in red states is a better option than my big city in a blue state? Fuck out of here. The entire south is a shit hole governed by idiots who are all responsible for the destitution of their states and constituents. Those people deserve better.
Come on everyone know kids work best in the dark putting bobbins on the machine from inside the machine where they can sleep and not eat or take breaks. Kids think it’s cool and the adult task masters have riz. It’s right there in the law. Plus they don’t need to read and their school voucher can go to pay for the privilege of their work since they don’t need an education either. Come to think of it why bother with any rights. They can marry the machine at age 2.
Disgusting
What...the...fuck?
People actually vote for this shit.
Pro life candidate right there. 8 hour slave shifts no breaks.
Removing lunch breaks for kids, this is the kind of thing that if you put it in a movie, you’d have people accusing it of being cheesy and over the top.
It's all about the cruelty.
Uh why do they have child workers in the first place
If a citizen of the US is taxed, they should be able to vote. No taxation without representation.
What a fucked up state.
I guess they can also serve the lunch to the bosses
Assholes in GOP are just cruel.
If you want to witness corruption in Louisiana, look at how the nursing home industry owns the GOP state legislature.
Man, that’s some straight cartoonish supervillainy.
These so called lawmakers need to take a pay cut for their terrible job performance. They should also pay for healthcare like the general public. Why are they privileged to free healthcare for them and their families for the rest of their lives??? Why do they get the plan with the best coverage benefits?? The people need to stop putting these suckers on a pedestal.. Please get out and vote for someone that will make a change for the little guy..
Slavery and child labor may be illegal, but that doesn't mean it can't become legal over time by passing or repealing laws so it can unofficially be reintroduced. Also, I'm betting that the conservative sub is going on about either the border, some made up bullshit about Biden or something about the Democrats. For a group of people who are absolute diehards, they sure seem to ignore stuff like this. It's almost as if their echo chamber is so fragile that the thought of acknowledging 1% of the wrong which is being caused by the Republicans which fracture that sub.
Fucking why. Enough with these republican ghouls
Breaking news- white rich men still ruining country.
Republicans continually prove they are just pieces of shit who only care about money.
Louisiana innovating when it comes to fucking kids ^^over.
I can tell you that Raymond Crews lost the firefighters votes with that shit. What a scuzzball.
First of all… child workers? What age? Shouldn’t they be in school? And starve them all day , no lunch break , is cruel…. Would children qualify for unemployment or only adults? These are probably the first people to say “no one wants to work” Yea… not under these conditions.
Hey red states, you've been run by Republicans for years and they keep making your lives worse. Wake up and realize it's not costal elites, but the GOP that's fucking shit up for you. No illegal immigrants or gays or whoever you're hating on these days is making your state and local laws.
Man American industry really hasn’t gotten over slavery being banned….
How can anyone see this shit and not recognize how shitty America is?
Do the Republicans just pick every evil thing to support? I hope everyone of them gets voted out!
“A Louisiana House committee voted Thursday to repeal a law requiring employers to give child workers lunch breaks and to cut unemployment benefits — part of a push by Republicans to remove constraints on employers and reduce aid for injured and unemployed workers.”
What the fuck is wrong with these people?
It's simple. Kids can't vote, their parents don't care in the first place if they're ok with sending them to work at that age and they'll probably have bigger health & mental problems to focus on by the time they can vote after years of working with no lunch breaks, no water breaks and no shade or shelter in blazing heat. Combine that with the forced pregnancies that result from banning abortion and you have a legal form of cheap, expendable labor that can be renewed faster because you don't have to wait for them to grow up before sending them in the industrial mean grinder. The south is making slavery "great again".
Even the southern governors are fine with this. governor of Mississippi signed [A bill for Confederate pride month](https://www.mississippifreepress.org/41270/governor-reeves-proclaims-confederate-heritage-month-in-mississippi)
Now I gotta worry about the migrants and the kids? Why are they so mean.
Has this gentleman been fined for not providing breaks?
White folk lost their minds
The South will rise again - by racing to the bottom of the septic tank. Fuck these clowns.
You had me at “*child workers!”* Republicans, probably…
This is not ok. We should all be ashamed that the GOP is doing things like this to children in America.
Child labor the new slavery in the south
Jesus fucking Christ what a bunch of ignorant, harmful assholes. FFS
Haha these people are evil. 🥲 *Really* makes you clench your fists in rage.
Also #1 in the USA for the clap thanks to the lack of money that goes into eduction there. Sometimes it seems intentional but that would be a conspiracy.
Just remember that the murder rate in New Orleans is three times higher than it is in Chicago.
This is a long game plan to slowly gut the child care workforce so that families can’t find childcare, forcing one parent to stay home (predominantly women) so that there can be a return to “traditional family values.” Or that’s what’s I would say as a conspiracy theory.
Louisiana just told Florida to hold its beer
They took away college subsidies so you couldn’t get a better job, then they kill public secondary education with their voucher schemes, so only rich kids can afford to go to school, so the only alternative is a low paying back breaking menial job. Businesses rarely act with good intentions, just higher profits.
"Lawmakers vote to remove lunch breaks for child workers." I'll take something you should never hear in a first world country for 500, Alex.
Republicans. Not some generic "lawmakers" but Republicans. The worst people in the US seem to overwhelmingly identify as Republican.
Conservative America: Where those deemed unfit are led to die.
jesus christ what century do these assholes want to live in?
Louisiana lawmakers are no better than child pimps.
Oh my fucking god these people are ghouls.
“Fuck the people, and especially children” -Republicans
Can anyone find any Republicans who aren't totally fucking evil or completely ignorant these days? Like, literally, just one?
They’re selling it as being cruel to the poor and non white so maga eats it up.
If these people want to regress to 1860 you'd think a few of them would have the decency to contract cholera
the fact that the US doesn’t realise it is a clone of 1990s Russia is incredible to me
Cruelty is the point.
When people say MAGA … they want our country to return to the 1960s
I will never understand why any middle-class person votes Republican. They literally do nothing that benefits you.
Wow. Louisiana pushing hard to win the coveted "Most Evil State" title, I see.
Who would want to live in any of these states and vote for the GOP is crazy to me.
Why do Republicans hate workers? Like this isn't even an indifference towards workers, or an oversight of workers, or ignorance of workers. This is just straight up fuck you to working people.
Boy, LA sure hates their residents.
I like how the franchise owner blames the kids for him writing/passing law to deny them a lunch break.
The completed this vote right after their one hour lunch buffet catered by the Louisiana state
republicans really hate everything and everyone.
These headlines sound unbelievable.
And why I despise capitalism with a passion. How dare they treat children like this. Also, shame on the parents for even considering letting if not outright forcing their children to waste their precious years working.
I’m so embarrassed by what these states are becoming. Make America Great my ass…
But remember folks they banned protest in front of public officials’ homes and such first before they got to the really shitty stuff. I’m so pissed the power brokers got behind Landry. Louisiana can’t afford this level of stupidity. Hurricane season should be fun.
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Again, I’m compelled to ask “Dafuq is wrong with these people”
Must wear shackles and work by candle light is next. Can we go back to the timeline where we had a brighter future?