Rural kids, parents angry about Labor Dept. rule banning farm chores

You know that I grew up in the city, right??

 

That would explain your laziness.

 

The midwest is where people go to have their dreams die.

 

Where I grew up, farm kids HATED their farm chores but took pride in them because, well hell they had no choice in the matter might as well brag about them.

That said, with all the subsidies around farming now, the big time farmers were rolling in the dough and their kids lived the dream life. Brand new souped up diesel truck with a fuel card, 4wheelers and UTVs for the weekends, guns and bows, unlimited access to land, and oddly enough high school girls were into that whole scene it seemed (oh how it changed quickly after we walked the line).

Should the government be allowed to tell us how to parent? No, but its been slowly happening for years and this is just another rung on the ladder.

 

The issue with farming is it walks the line between being a parent, and being a boss. Farmers don't see it that way because most of them were raised on a farm.

I don't think you will find many people that weren't raised on a farm who will say, "You know what I want to be when I grow up? A farmer!"

Okay, no one over the age of 5.

 

Kids need to learn the meaning and value of a hard buck earned. My first pair of Tracks Tennis Shoes was bought by pulling weeds around houses. several women that work near me parents still give them money although they work 40hr weeks. Now they have started missing days and very near to being fired.

Kids need to work that's what this world is based upon hard work. the last thing we need is more government freeloaders.

 

I grew up and worked MANY hours on a turkey farm since a young age. I had about 20k in the bank when I graduated highschool from cash I had saved over the years.

I graduated college with honors...degree in Finance...currently work in the credit department for a large bank.

FYI Vito, MN is one of the most highly educated states in America despite all of us dumb farm kids who ussually just drop out of school.

 

It's the city kids dragging you down

 

LOL! True dreams are realized in Kentucky in the hills, behind the trailer house, by the whiskey still, next to the rusty tuck by the scrap iron pile. Dont be afeared of the dog, he dont bite, much.

Unless your "dreams" are giant whitetails. Then you are absolutely right, they die here often.

 

Lol I consider western KY part of the Midwest in the dreams die there aspect. No discrepancies on this end, it's why I got out ....

Now go kill your huge deer and keep to yourself and corn, we all need it for the dream we call ethanol (a dumb one at that) :evil:

 

You happen to know HardcoreHunter? He also lives in Utopia.

 

You mean, utopia lives in HCH.

 

I love the direction this thread went.

 

I just love derailin threads in general

 

lol. Yah.......and a tape worm......from Kentucky (Western KY).

 

That's about as stupid as you can get. My brothers and I all grew up working on the neighboring farms. It's how we made money to buy guns, bicycles, traps, etc. My folks didn't have the money for such foolishness. LOL I got paid 50cents a load hay for every load put on the wagon and stacked in the barns. Big money. I remember one day we did 15 loads but had to finish stacking the last 3 the next morning. Fools running this country and more fools voting them in. When I was a senior in highschool I made $60 a week during the summer doing "Farm chores". Plus I got fed a hugh meal at lunch everyday. I was rich. LOL

 

$60 was a lot of money in the 1920s.

 

brutal

 

http://ocj.com/2012/04/department-of-labor-withdrawls-rule-dealing-with-children-working-on-farms/

 

Good to see.


I deal with farm family's all of the time with my job. Farm kids at times hate doing chores. Who doesn't when your a kid? Didn't any of you city slickers hate doing some of the "chores" in the house your parents wanted you to do? It's a kid thing. I can tell you this that just about everyone of these kids that are no longer on the farm and have moved on with life wouldn't have traded what they did as a youngster when they stop and think about it years later. They will be the 1st to say that It taught them responsibility and such. In my opinion every kid in the city should spend a month at a dairy farm.

When I went to college my 1st year In 1993 I stayed In an apartment with 2 people that I never knew before hand. They asked me what my parents did for a living and I told them they ran a milk hauling business. They said what Is that? I then told them my dad picked up milk from the dairy farm and brought that milk to a cheese plant where they made butter and cheese out of it and also some of the milk was bottled that we drink today. They both said huh? I asked what you mean? They then told me something that I couldn't hardly believe. They thought milk was made from powder, not from a cow. I couldn't believe what I just heard! They then asked if chocolate milk came from a brown cow. You can thank our wonderful school systems for this crap of kids in the city not knowing what goes on in the farms. Ag programs are getting cut in allot of schools as of late with the shortage of cash. It makes no sense to me. Agriculture Is the biggest employer in the world.