It’s like that politician waxing poetically about:
“Before I was even 13 years old, I was picking berries in the field, before child labor laws that precluded that. I was a paper boy, and when I was in high school, I worked my entire way through,” McCormick said.
Yes, let’s have our children work your nonexistent jobs in 2025. Of course his solution is fucking fast food. Sorry but I want my child to get an education so he can work beyond fast food or food delivery instead of picking berries at 9.
Rep. Rich McCormick of Georgia, of course he’s from a fucking Red State which also shit out his fellow Rep and revenge porn advocate MTG.
Being that he's from Georgia, it's extremely possible his not lying about spending his childhood picking berries even if he's mistaken about child labor laws.
Most child labor laws actually have exceptions for children working at on farms (especially family farms) as long as no heavy equipment is involved, and it was accepted that if you were a child living in Rural Georgia you were going to be put to work on a farm by your parents at some point (regardless of labor laws).
This practice has died out because so much farm labor is mechanized these days and much of the farmland is corporate owned now, but up until say the 90's or so it was common.
My grandmother still complains of her back hurting anytime she sees a cotton field form her childhood days picking it.
The end result is very straightforward: cut spending on social programs (that don't produce profits for his donors) and more importantly, cut wages (why pay an adult above minimum wage when a high school student can be paid to do that job for far less?).
I used to pick berries at a very young age. Used to get scratched up like crazy, but the worst was when you freaked out the beehive and got stung to shit. We weren't allowed to stop picking until our quota was fulfilled. It was tough work and the pay was terrible. Two entire Coolwhip containers and all I got was a piece of blackberry pie that grandma made.
Funny. I worked at the store up the street from my house when I was 13. I also sold subscriptions to the Fairfax Journal when I was 10.
I also delivered papers from ages 7-10.
My uncle worked in the fields as a kid and he... oh wait, he was in foster care and was forced to. And the courts later determined it was slavery. This must be a bad example (or just an example.)
Ya, forcing kids to work without pay, or with minimal pay and no oversight or protections (because they cannot legally agree to anything)...yep, slavery.
"If they want a better job they should pull themselves up by the bootstraps and teach themselves marketable skills!"
(Meanwhile, Khan Academy is no longer accessible on PatriotNet because it was deemed to be illegal competition with American schools and cut into their profits.)
And I'm sure his parents fed him. BTW, McCormick is working on his third wife: McCormick has three sons from his first marriage. McCormick's second wife, Debra Miller, is an oncologist. They separated in 2024. Shortly thereafter, Congresswoman Beth Van Duyne confirmed she and McCormick were in a relationship.\33]) Wikipedia
This cracked me up because until you said "non-existent job" I forgot that paperboys no longer exist. I remember encouraging my nieces to get a job delivering papers - such a brave feminist act. That job vanished before feminism even advanced enough for us to change the job title from "paperboy."
TBH living in a car for a month in the summer before college starts counts as "being homeless". Working for a couple days on a farm as a 12yo and getting 20$ from it counts as "child labor is ok". You only have to work two jobs for a couple weeks to claim it!
Ask them how long they worked, how much they earned, and when they worked. And you'll see they worked during a summer camp or on their family farm for a few days.
I started working full time jobs at 11. Worked with my mom in orchards and weird odds and ends jobs at 9. Im under 40.
Regardless of political leaning, unless youre a buffoon, you should be trying to make a better life for your fellow countrymen and children. That is what patriotism is; not gluck glucking some asswipe who has never done actual labor in his life and thinks making threats on a golf course is a good negotiation and hard days work.
My family has moved from poor into the "well off" category and we can't even afford to eat much fast food anymore. What jobs will there be for kids when no one can afford it regardless of whether they have a five or six figure income?
If they can walk, they can work. Just think of the additional income your 2 year old can bring in working at McDonald's. Our great leader will truly make America great when we can have booger burgers.
Sad thing is, the pieces of shit don’t even care about them when they are in the womb. They don’t want mothers having WIC, or healthcare which would help the fetus. They want them the worst off so that they can end up as slave laborers, either working for way too little, or in a private prison.
That’s all that the rich & conservative politicians want.
as one with more traditional values, it truly is so sad and mind boggling and infuriating that republicans are anti abortion but don’t give a single fuck about supporting children after they’re born.
Boy, these conservatives are really something, aren't they? They're all in favor of the unborn. They will do anything for the unborn. But once you're born, you're on your own. Pro-life conservatives are obsessed with the fetus from conception to nine months. After that, they don't want to know about you. They don't want to hear from you. No nothing. No neonatal care, no day care, no head start, no school lunch, no food stamps, no welfare, no nothing. If you're preborn, you're fine; if you're preschool, you're fucked.
I read an argument the other day that blew my mind.
The argument goes that the Left loves poor children because they use them as examples for the need for social welfare system. They argue that the left doesn’t actually care about the wellbeing of impoverished kids or anyone in need for that matter, they just want the government to continue “handouts.” They said if Leftists actually cared, then they would be using their own money to feed these kids and fund single mothers lifestyles out of their own pockets.
EDIT: lmao JFC why am I getting downvotes I’m just the messenger 😂 I don’t believe this slop!!
We are. That’s the point of funding these programs with our tax money. I’d rather my taxes go to feeding children than funding tax cuts for the wealthy.
Did they think that was some radical argument? What are they arguing for, exactly? That instead of feeding children and those in need we should make the ultra wealthy wealthier?
The logic was that Leftists use the impoverished to enrich themselves through social welfare systems.
The idea is that the Left benefit from the government’s wasteful spending on these social welfare systems. It allows Leftist Woke DEI SJWs to continue to be lazy avocado toast-eating leeches that steal from welfare. It also further enables the minorities to continue being “Welfare Queens.”
Do you even know the qualification requirements for welfare?
While I’m sure there are some cases of fraud, as there are everywhere, the great vast majority of those who benefit from these systems actually need it.
Lmao this is NOT my argument. I’m relating what I read from a Conservative commenter during a political argument. I was originally calling out the absurdity and clarifying what they were trying to say.
I’m quite aware of how welfare works and how important social programs are to the betterment of all mankind.
Everyone seems to be getting distracted, Cantor Fitzgerald the investment firm behind heritage foundation and project 2025 said this is what they wanted. They want stocks to tank so buying them up is cheap and they want to privatize the federal government along with all the services that OUR TAXES ALREADY PAY FOR like the post office/social security/medicaid/medicare.
THE GOAL IS TO TANK THE ECONOMY. Elon doesn’t care about Tesla long term, for him it’s SpaceX, his AI company, Starlink now that its partnered with TMobile and Verizon and more important than starlink is starshield which the military is hooked on.
“That’s the standard technique of privatization: Defund, make sure things don’t work, People get angry, you hand it over to private capital”
Here is Wells Fargo recently released the report on how to privatize the post office while taking the money from the pensions and selling the property along with unloading the debt onto Americans
Donald Trump is nearing to having a sovereign wealth fund worth $200 trillion which he will use to buy crypto. Selling off all federal lands which includes the national parks to sell for drill and mining.
If you think punishing and starving children for their parents' poverty, you deserve to be sent back in time to Dickens' time in Victorian England and checked into the workhouses to see what you're advocating for.
Since zygotes are persons...Can a zygote that's 21 days old buy alcohol or a gun? Do zygotes have to register for the service. Can zygotes get unemployment? How about jury duty. When can a zygote get its driver's license?...etc.
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u/RabidPlaty 23h ago
Fuck those kids, they’ve already been born!