As Republicans Cheer Child Labor, They Should Reflect On My Grand Father's Life

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2. We're at the point where people can make their own stories of courage and hard work in an effort to

build a new society, rather than retelling the stories of their parents and grandparents. This is NOT a dig at the OP at all, but I think people should start thinking about why they say, "I am a labor supporter and come from a long line of union members" instead of "I am a union member." You see it every election when candidates' labor bona fides are those of their parents or grandparents, instead of themselves.

There is some difference, of course, between being told to go into a flooded mine and being told you can't work unless you submit to a credit check or hand over your Facebook password. On the other hand, as we are forced to move from a manufacturing economy to a service economy, this is how the oppression and intimidation will look, and people had better start pushing back sooner or later, and give our grandchildren something to speak of with pride.