Rep. Rich McCormick said that the freeze on federal aid would allow the government to review all programs including ones that provide free school lunches to low-income children.
  • OutlierBlue@lemmy.cadeleted by creatorEnglish
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    “Who can actually go out there and do something that makes them have value and work skills for the future?” McCormick said.

    Children have no value unless they’re producing something.

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  • TimeSquirrel@kbin.melroy.org
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    Before I was even 13 years old, I was picking berries in the field, before child labor laws that precluded that.

    “Back in my day I ate shit so you can too” is never a good argument for anything. That line of thinking just justifies societal regression. We want our children to have it easier, not replicate our same struggles over and over again. Boomer worldviews need to die.

    • tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip
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      He was 12 in 1980, when minimum wage was $3.10, which looks like about the equivalent of 12 bucks today. Wanna take bets on whether this asshole is for or against a minimum wage increase?

    • gibmiser@lemmy.world
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      2 years ago

      Children should have opportunities to learn work skills. They shouldn’t have to rely on that to eat. Pricks

    • PyroNeurosis@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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      And before the NLRB, the preferred method of coming to a union understanding was to get a group of like-minded coworkers to convince the boss at the end of a blunt instrument.

    • labbbb2@thelemmy.clubdeleted by creator
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      Before I was even 13 years old, I was picking berries in the field, before child labor laws that precluded that.

      Parents in former USSR countries think like that

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    He added, “I mean, how many people got their start in fast-food restaurants when they were kids, versus just giving a blanket rule that gives all kids lunches in high school who are capable of going out and actually getting a job and doing something that makes them have value, thinking about their future instead of thinking about how they’re going to sponge out the government when they don’t need to.”

    Fucking toddlers sponging off the government.

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    • TheFogan@programming.devEnglish
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      2 years ago

      and care to realize that some things aren’t options for everyone. The ones struggling with food insecurity… ain’t the ones with parents that have an easy time finding transportation and ability to get them to work… Not to mention the general fact that if we increase the amount of people hunting the jobs that don’t need education/experience… the openings dry up.

      • bobs_monkey@lemm.ee
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        2 years ago

        Nevermind that part time jobs after school for kids was always about learning how to work a job and earn some spending money, not fucking feed themselves because the system is broken.

  • DarkFuture@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 years ago

    Republicans: We’re garbage human beings and let us prove it to you.

    Americans: Hey, we should vote these guys in.

    Hope everyone’s ready for some dark times.

  • TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.comEnglish
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    Way back when I was in high school our economics teacher told us that the money one earns from a job during high school was less than the money one would make in six months if one studied and got a high school diploma first much less got a job that required a college degree.

    But that was when the federal government created a budget surplus.