Evil

[EnergizedLib]

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‘In support of weakening child labor laws, Missouri Rep. Cheri Toalson Reisch (R) says kids just "play video games" and "join gangs":

"Free healthcare, free food, free this, free that, free, free, free ... I started work at age 9 ... These kids of today are lazy ... Get a job!"’

Really? I have never known a kid who was in a gang, certainly not as young as nine, not in this country.

Kids are lazy, they play video games? Yes, I was a kid at one point and that was me. It’s almost as if kids can be kids and the work comes later. It’s almost as if when they grow up and become more of age then that’s when it’s time to worry about their work ethic, not when they’re elementary school age.

Also, work ethic can’t be forced upon anyone. It has to come from within. It did for me, and I believe people can often make their biggest growth and progress when something comes from within and not when pushed or forced upon by others.

I do find it funny how they use the excuses of parental empowerment when it comes to what their kids should eat, what they should read. Let them be kids? That just means let’s allow parents to raise kids to be bigots.

If they want to let them be kids in the sense of doing kids stuff and not let them be prone to the workforce to make more money for the rich at an early age, then it’s a problem.

That’s a lot of contempt for a group of people you wanted to force to be born, to force to work, to force them to conform to how you want them to.

Oh, and this is the same ‘person’ who pushed the litter boxes in school theory.

[sop]

1. Toalson Reisch should lead by sending her nine-year-old to work at a Missouri meat-packing plant.

[EnergizedLib]

3. I'd feel bad for that nine-year-old

‘No, my kids won’t be on the front lines. I want to put yours on them.’

[JustAnotherGen]

2. This same rep

Probably yells at high schoolers who trick or treat.

Me? It's kind of known that the 'big kids' get full size candy bars at our house. We get 40-50 every year - it's like handed down 'tribal knowledge'. That house has special candy for every one taller than the lady that lives there!

I'm sharing this because . . . Kids should be kids. It's not 1812 anymore.

[EnergizedLib]

4. And people can develop a work ethic at any age

Twenty years ago, I was one of those same lazy kids she talks about. Now, I get praised for my work ethic as a professional, but something clicked with me, something unlocked within me for me to develop the work ethic I have. Nobody forced it on me.

[keithbvadu2]

5. Cheri, would your parents have made you give birth at age 12?

[Rebl2]

6. Wonder if

she lived in MO at age nine. My nephew (lived in Mo) to get a job at 15, and everywhere he applied said he had to be 16. That was 15 years ago. My husband on the other hand who lived in Mo at age 14 (in the 1960’s) got a job at a car wash. When he was sixteen he worked at a gas station in a not so great part of town and during the summer worked on a barge on the Mo and Mississippi rivers. Pretty sure it was illegal for him to work on barges at that age, but they overlooked his age I suppose. So guess back in the sixties they overlooked a persons age.

[EnergizedLib]

8. 'Back in my day'

That’s one of those sayings that’s a big negative for me. I’m not talking your case specifically, but legislators like this.


Just because things were a certain way ‘back in my day’ doesn’t mean they were better.

[Rebl2]

12. I agree

with you.

[MLAA]

7. No doubt she will start by getting her granddaughters jobs in a meat plant or painting houses on ladders.

[live love laugh]

9. They'd rather kids work than increase wages.

[yardwork]

10. A lot of racist dog whistles there.

I've heard racist white people say this kind of thing. They're really yearning for the days when their ancestors owned Black slaves. They're not interested in letting Black children have a childhood.

[EnergizedLib]

11. Missouri does have racism in it