Republican Sets Out To Repeal The Ban On Child Labor

[Galraedia]

As part of the New Deal in 1933, Congress passed the National Industrial Recovery Act (NRA) that outlawed child labor in the United States. The child labor prohibition was ruled unconstitutional, but was passed again in 1938 and has protected children from forced labor and unfair working conditions in all industries since its inception. Republicans have tried to repeal every law in the New Deal since its beginning, and today’s corporate-driven conservatives are making it their goal to finish off the provisions of the New Deal once and for all. There has been a call to either end or privatize Social Security, and Republicans have attempted to defund or eliminate every safety net and provision for caring for disadvantaged citizens and children; some legislators have claimed Child Labor Laws are unconstitutional. As Draconian as it seems, a Missouri State Senator has proposed legislation to eliminate child labor laws altogether in Missouri.

Continue at: http://www.politicususa.com/en/republican-child-labor

Wtf? So I guess that's why the Repugs are against abortion.

[Initech]

1. Man George Carlin was right: "When you're pre-born you're fine when you're pre school youre fucked!"

[Fumesucker]

2. It's time to go full metal Oliver Twist on these despicable creatures..

Charles Dickens would have known what to do with them.

[valerief]

3. Why is that state senator still allowed to breathe? nt

[Sarah Ibarruri]

4. And here she is, wearing her wig...

http://missouri-news.org/featured/tonight-show-attention-leaves-senator-unfazed-in-quest-to-weaken-child-labor-laws/3095/attachment/jane-cunningham-e1298028493851

[Aerows]

5. This is the Republican "job plan" apparently

Child labor. I'm sure the next plan is going to be ending minimum wage and bringing back inheritable debt and debtor's prison. Your kids, too, can inherit your debt, go to work for pennies per day, and be spared the horrors of a public school education. As a bonus, your family can bond more closely by all going to debtor's prison together.

:sarcasm:

Is there ANYTHING they won't come up with to make life absolutely miserable for as many people possible?

[WingDinger]

8. What are you dense? Don't forget prison labor.

[Aerows]

13. You're right!

How could I forget prison labor! That's the other part of their "jobs" plan. LOL

[arbusto_baboso]

6. She is complete scum.

How does such a person sleep at night?

[rustydog]

7. So this is the Jobs is priority One, child jobs!

Show your true colors GOP. Children in coal mines again? reduce black lung regulations? Safety laws?

[dtexdem]

9. And what about babies? Why should they get a free ride?

If they want to live, they need to start walking right away, and then get right to work!

;-)

[white_wolf]

10. I thought this was an Onion article until I clicked it.

This is disgusting even for right-wingers.

[ratsrats]

11. WOW.

Just wow.

[hifiguy]

12. Nothing these shitstains propose

surprises me anymore. (Privatized) Debtors' prisons are surely just around the corner. :grr:

[Galraedia]

14. Slave labor anyone?

[RC]

15. The story was dated February 14, 2011 - 6:37pm

It didn't get anywhere.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

16. This nostalgia for the Gilded Age brings a tear to my eye

thinking back to those quaint and colorful times when a gentleman of the leisure class could buy an apple or a flower from a litle girl on a street corner.