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In reply to the discussion: Mining Would Be Exciting For Kids: Trumps Secretary Of Education Wants Legal Child Labor [View all]Snarkoleptic
(5,997 posts)11. It's horrifying how quickly their rotten deeds can undo progress.
Here are some photos of kids at the coal mine "being valued for what they do, which is to say being valued as people. They are earning money."
And as they say over at the DeVos-funded thinktank, "Whatever else you want to say about this, its an exciting life."
They also aren't being deprived of "dignity, meaning, freedom, virtue, creativity, character, and neighbor love." (not sure WTF "neighbor love" is)
In sum, we must resist the temptation to coddle kids and refer to child labor as "a gift too dangerous for kids".
I mean, look at the happy faces of freedom!1!1!
http://www.shorpy.com/shorpy
December 1910. "Shorpy Higginbotham, a 'greaser' on the tipple at Bessie Mine, of the Sloss-Sheffield Steel and Iron Co. in Alabama. Said he was 14 years old, but it is doubtful. Carries two heavy pails of grease, and is often in danger of being run over by the coal cars."
A view of the Pennsylvania Breaker. Breaker Boys remove rocks and other debris from the coal by hand as it passes beneath them. The dust is so dense at times as to obscure the view and penetrates the utmost recesses of the boys lungs. South Pittston, Pennsylvania.
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Mining Would Be Exciting For Kids: Trumps Secretary Of Education Wants Legal Child Labor [View all]
Snarkoleptic
Nov 2016
OP
What a sick, sick person! Trump is declaring war on the American evidenced by the people he is
smirkymonkey
Nov 2016
#2
Black Lung Disease puts hair on your chest and makes frail little boys real men!
Feeling the Bern
Nov 2016
#41
DeVos and the Kochs, Daltons and other Plutocrats want to bring back serfdom.
Dustlawyer
Nov 2016
#12
Not that I'm defending this crazy shit, but child labor has always been legal for farm kids
NickB79
Nov 2016
#16
See my post #36 below. Coal mining destroyed Grandpa's lungs. He went to the mines at age 13. nt
tblue37
Nov 2016
#37
Because to a Republican, people who don't earn money have no value at all as people. nt
tblue37
Nov 2016
#38
Well, no offense was meant by my last re to your post 59, but I deleted it anyhow. nt
Mc Mike
Dec 2016
#62
"Valued as people" TYPICAL of RW assholes to think that children and others are not valued
Maru Kitteh
Nov 2016
#42
And when the kids get black lung disease and other occupational related disorders,
smirkymonkey
Nov 2016
#54
Of course the rich folks wouldn't want THEIR kids to prove their value as people
tblue37
Nov 2016
#60