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Friday, October 27, 2023

Hey, kids gotta eat too

HEBRON, Ky. — The operator of a northern Kentucky warehouse and distribution center has been ordered to stop employing children -- including one who operated a forklift -- and not to violate federal child labor laws, federal officials said last month.

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Federal officials said the business, based in the Cincinnati suburb of Hebron, Kentucky employed two children -- ages 11 and 13 -- for several months at its distribution center, WHIO-TV reported.
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  1. Henk VandenberghOctober 27, 2023 at 10:14 PM

    I had my first job at the age of seven. Is that a problem officer?

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  2. FeralFerretOctober 27, 2023 at 10:34 PM

    I started working at a service station when I was 12. I also had a paper route that I got when I was 10. After moving into town, I was managing a service station on I-40 at age 15.

    As I understand it (and I could be wrong), OSHA now requires you to be 18 to work with gasoline. You can fill your own car at 16 when you get your license, but apparently they think that you aren't responsible enough to do so for anyone else at that age.

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  3. mike alexanderOctober 27, 2023 at 11:33 PM

    At 12 I was part of hay baling operation. Drove 2 1/2 ton trucks when it wasn't my turn to load said truck.

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  4. AnonymousOctober 28, 2023 at 2:12 AM

    Someone should tell Mayorkas they found a couple of those missing illegal kids he doesn't know where they went.

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  5. AnonymousOctober 28, 2023 at 7:57 AM

    "Hey, kids gotta eat too!" is exactly right. Even UNICEF, as corrupt and evil as they are, no longer condemns child labor. They found that where child labor was forbidden, children simply ended up in more dangerous jobs, often prostitution. Children aren't working in factories for shits and giggles, they're working so they and/or their families can eat.

    IMHO child labor laws are just as destructive and evil as minimum wage laws. If the choice is work or starve, they want us to starve? Well, or be completely beholden to the government welfare programs and only eat the processed crapola they deem sufficient for their slaves, I guess.

    John G

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    1. favillOctober 28, 2023 at 1:48 PM

      Here's a theory--child labor laws are meant to keep public schools full so that teachers' unions can have more power.

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  6. AnonymousOctober 28, 2023 at 11:37 AM

    Catholics and protestants worked together to protect children with laws forbidding using them as disposable workers. It had the shocking side effect of reducing the available labor force, and therefore driving up wages for the remaining workers. Then women entered the labor force in job lots, doubling the supply, and destroying wages again. Then, if that wasn't bad enough, we started *importing* more workers (and criminals)...which further expanded the available labor supply, further destroying wages, and benefiting the foreigners and globalists running the companies and the country.. But yeah. Keeping apple from having their hellish factory here was evil of those wicked christians. God... representative republics and democracies were a mistake. Bring back monarchy! Deus vult!

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  7. Jo-Anne's RamblingsOctober 29, 2023 at 3:33 PM

    Nothing wrong with children working if that's what they want or feel they need to do as long as they are not being forced into it or abused in any way

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  8. Wurm65October 30, 2023 at 5:24 AM

    I was a dishwasher at 11... for $1.45 an hour. Cutting Grass, Shoveling Snow, Walking our Neighbor's Dog. And I was able to buy my first car at 16. Dad paid the insurance, the rest I took care of myself.

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