child workers

Failed state.

“The wording is ‘We’re here to harm children.’ Give me a break," he said. "These are young adults.” — Matt Gaetz had a similar argument.

First-term 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.

“The sheep want to jump in my mouth” Mr. Wolf claimed.

“The wording is ‘We’re here to harm children.’ Give me a break," he said. "These are young adults.”

Ohhhh. Just harming young adults. Totally Clean conscience there

Why are "children" working to begin with?

What the fuck is wrong with republicans?

What a shithole

These guys just... wake up and think to themselves "what is the most comically evil cartoon villain thing I can do to hurt others today?". Surreal.

So anyway, I just want to check and see if anyone else noticed what's going on here: to the extent that the comments are about specific policy (as opposed to generalized outrage at how cartoonishly evil the Republicans are), they're about the "cutting lunch breaks for child workers" part.

I wouldn't be a bit surprised if that part was added mostly as a distraction to make it easier to push the unemployment benefit and workers comp cuts through (e.g. by offering to ditch the lunch breaks part while keeping the other stuff and pretending it's some kind of fair compromise, when what really should've happened is binning all of it).

Ok Republican Party needs to be removed from everywhere. This is beyond.

If you have to cut lunch breaks for anyone, especially children then this is a failed state.

The orphan crushing machine doesn't take a break today it seems.

I shall introduce a law allowing gruel in the workhouse to be replaced with watered down sawdust.

Canada Labour Code

169.1 (1) Every employee is entitled to and shall be granted an unpaid break of at least 30 minutes during every period of five consecutive hours of work. If the employer requires the employee to be at their disposal during the break period, the employee must be paid for the break.

Finally, an example of conservatives tackling the hard issues important to everyday Americans! /s

The cruelty is the point.

This is a first-term asshole who just happens to own a bunch of Smoothie King franchises.

All the legislature did was move it out of committee for a House vote. Still has to pass the Senate and Govenor. This is not a done deal.

"We can't slave away other races, neither other genders, without maybe getting into trouble, who are the next most vulnerable target that nobody gives a shit about guys?" Holy shit man. These dudes are just evil and lazy as shit. Instead of trying they just want to do things the easy way, by fucking up someone else, every time since forever. Pathetic accommodated slavers. Probably have small dicks as well.

Hard at work unbecoming a first world country.

It’s like they saw “oppression Olympics” mentioned somewhere, completely misunderstood what it meant, and decided “let’s go for the gold.”

That's because kids work harder on an empty stomach.

Children not only yearn for the mine, they yearn to work for free and starve.

How commendable! #PrettyPleaseDontJoinaUnion

"Everyone deserves the freedom to work themselves to death!"

There is nothing like a state that wants things to go back to the good old days where children were seemingly no different than indentured servants (or slaves if they weren't white as pure cotton) if your family was poor.