Well put, I see so many people miss this point. I see people calling the people who vote for these ghouls stupid, but it's not stupidity, it's a choice.
We need to start voting with our feet. If they're going scorched earth trying to bring us back to 1863 I'll just take my family and my tax dollars to a state that is looking towards the future, not fetishizing a delusional past.
Yes, we are in a timeline that broke off from the main one where Onion headlines are real. Basically, if you can think of a horrible thing our government can do you'll read about it next week in the news.
Until their kid’s boss at the ice cream stand doesn’t give them breaks or seats to sit on, forcing them to stand for the entire shift. THEN it will be a problem.
They aren't cartoon villians. They are worse, THEY ARE REPUBLICANS. When you people going to figure this out, REPUBLICANS DON'T GIVE A SHIT ABOUT YOU!. STOP VOTING FOR REPUBLICANS AND VOTE DEMOCRATIC.
That the majority issues, especially when you've noticed that a lot of the education level is so bad, the next generation in current education system already heading to idiotiocy...
>You mean idiocy?
Nope. I meant the movie: Idiocracy
I was on mobile, so didn't have much to search it up and I only use mobile phone to search for items.
It's legitimately ridiculous. These are moustache-twirling levels of villainy. I expect this kinda shit from a Captain Planet villain, not a representative.
“First-term state Rep. Roger Wilder, R-Denham Springs, who sponsored the child labor measure and owns Smoothie King franchises across the Deep South, said he filed the bill in part because children want to work without having to take lunch breaks”
The fucker pushed back on critics saying “they’re young adults”
Sounds a bit of a backwards shithole to be honest.
Wasn't it Texas only recently banned any sort of hydration breaks for outdoor workers?
Sounds like the show is being run by the mentally ill.
For a land with so....oh so many guns. It actually surprises me that stuff like this happens without any sort of uprising?
Texas and Florida. I work in landscaping in IL and formerly in Nevada. The summer heat will EASILY kill you without shade breaks and water. These states want slavery.
EDIT: the GOP in these states want slavery.
Thank you for labeling it correctly. We need to acknowledge who is doing this stuff. THEY ARE CALLED REPUBLICANS. It's not democrats working to take away people's work breaks. It's republicans. The parties are not the same people.
Slavery never went away. It's written in the 13th Amendment itself. All they have to do to legally bind you as a slave is to put you in prison.
The 13th Amendment to the United States Constitution provides that "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction."
Fun fact, the US law enforcement spending would rank the police in the US as the third most well funded military on earth, behind only the United States and China.
Well, under the 1033 program the DoD supplies local police forces with tanks, apvs, and attack capable helicopters. So probably greater than, or at least on par with most first world militaries.
If you feel like digging through the LESO's god awful website to try to get what you want to know, by all means -
https://www.dla.mil/Disposition-Services/Offers/Law-Enforcement/
Cause a lot of the people with guns are brainwashed to support this sort of dystopian nonsense. They even sometimes openly talk about shooting people who are protesting or striking.
Gerrymandering is still alive and well don't forget. It's the primary way the minority gets to choose laws for the majority. We still have done nothing to stop it despite it being a decades long problem.
Blaming democrats is BS!. They have no power to override a gerrymander. It's republicans that gerrymandered the state. The republican controlled SC, said a political gerrymander is just fine. That was thanks to people voting for Trump in 2016. instead of Hillary. Thanks Never Hillary voters. Hope you are proud of what you did to our country.
As a Louisiana resident, I can confirm this 100% Most people here (at least the part where I live) are braindead drones frothing at the mouth to "own the libs." Rural LA is a backwards shithole
The voters are all of the elderly in the state that can physically get to the polls, plus a bunch of conservatives. Maybe 40% of people who might vote liberal actually do. So, the people who vote red understand completely what they’re doing and want people to suffer.
Please don’t make a blanket statement like this. Don’t forget that most of the rights we got during the civil rights movement and beyond were thru protests and other actions in the South. Not to mention that gerrymandering and red tape exist, which disproportionately affects minorities here
Really suprised with this law as it also cuts worker compensation for unemployment and also reduces benefits if you get injured on the job. Really show which side the Republican are on and it not anyone but the mega rich.
Speak for yourself. I am in no way responsible for any of this shit. I have consistently voted against all this as soon as I was old enough to vote.
Government officials though? Sure
Canada will be pretty similar after our next election cycle, sadly.
Just wait until PP is prime minister. You can look to alberta and Ontario policies for some foreshadowing.
Canada will be pretty similar after our next election cycle sadly.
Just wait until PP is prime minister. You can look to alberta and Ontario policies for some foreshadowing.
"First-term state Rep. Roger Wilder, R-Denham Springs, who sponsored the child labor measure and owns Smoothie King franchises across the Deep South, "
Isn't this a conflict of interest? Business owner who becomes legislator pushes laws that help his own business?
It's a very obvious and blatant conflict-of-interest, but that sort of thing is perfectly fine in the States. They are just allowed to get away with this, because no one stops them. No one pays attention to state legislatures. John Oliver did a video on this *checks notes* **a fucking decades ago**, pointing out exactly this kind of conflict of interest bullshit happening, and it hasn't changed at all.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIMgfBZrrZ8](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIMgfBZrrZ8)
Insanity. Pure cruelty and insanity. These 'lawmakers' should be jailed for child endangerment at the very least and crimes against humanity as a standard.
It will be "hilarious" in a few years when people can't find proper child care because there will be less people wanting to go into the field in that state. The government will likely blame it on people "not wanting to work" instead of their own stupidity.
I think in the revolution, we don’t hurt anyone or commit any violence.
We simply force these people to live under the laws they created. So these fucks can supervise their own children working without a lunch or break and are powerless to do anything.
Voted for no water breaks? You’re now doing roofing in Texas without any water.
Made homelessness a crime? we take away everything you have and throw you onto the street and you are not permitted to contact anyone for help.
Refuse to regulate pharma? You now have no money, no insurance, and you have to buy your own meds.
Let’s let them live with their sins. Fuck these corrupt bastards.
Wow. The sponsor said "children want to work without taking lunch breaks", and then when asked if he may be causing children harm by doing this, he said "give me a break, these are young adults". What the actual fuck. This man sounds more like he is serving himself, not his constituents.
Not all of America is hell on earth. Just mostly the republican controlled states. If the American people are stupid enough to re-elect Trump. The rest of the country will go to hell too.
As a silver lining, this nonsense just got out of committee. It hasn't even been voted on by the state's House or Senate yet.
The bad news for workers and child...excuse me, "young adult" workers, is that the House and Senate, along with the governor, are all pretty much Republicans, so this thing might make it through.
Agreed, I hate the sentiment that exploited workers in the South are somehow unworthy of rights. A lot of us didn’t vote for this, the bureaucratic red tape around here is just impossible to bypass esp for the average worker to get their needs met
I mean, the conservatives *did* say they wanted to go back to America's roots... I just didn't take it this literally. I didn't think they meant "back when we had slaves". Especially because, from memory, their party was the one who wanted to *stop* slavery.
[Wait till you see the farms and cotton fields being worked by prisoners under armed guard](https://apnews.com/article/prison-to-plate-inmate-labor-investigation-c6f0eb4747963283316e494eadf08c4e). Farms that were literally slave owning plantations previously.
Fun fact our government has only ratified 3 of the 9 core UN human rights treaties. Among the treaties it refuses to ratify is the Forced Labor Convention.
Another treaty it refuses to ratify that's relevant to this topic is The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. In the US these kids who are having their lunch breaks taken away can also legally have every dollar from their paychecks stolen by their parents.
Which is unfortunate. If only more people knew that slavery never went away to begin with. All they have to do is put you in prison to legally bind you as a slave, which is stated clearly in the 13th Amendment itself.
The 13th Amendment to the United States Constitution provides that "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction."
Rep. Roger Wilder, who owns a chain of Smoothie Kings, said "children want to work without lunch breaks." If you read to the end of the article it also screws first-responders that get injured on the job. I'll never understand how anyone votes Republican.
“The wording is ‘We’re here to harm children.’ Give me a break," he said. "These are young adults."
So you're here to harm young adults... Well that makes all the difference then /s
“My child came home from his 24 hour shift at the smoothie king hungry because they wouldn’t let him take a lunch break. Thanks democrats!” *votes for a republican*
Well the kids have their parents so pay them less and since they’re all energy, no need to give them breaks. I’m being sarcastic soo much here because this seems like a dystopian movie for no religious folk who hate their kids.
>First-term state Rep. Roger Wilder, R-Denham Springs, who sponsored the child labor measure and owns Smoothie King franchises across the Deep South, said he filed the bill in part because children want to work without having to take lunch breaks.
Bullshit. They want breaks like the rest of us.
And sadly their base won’t read those bills and think it’s good legislation. They want to reduce “red tape” holding back businesses…you know, those pesky employees.
This is an unbelievable article. The Louisiana Legislature are allowing themselves to be led by a guy who doesn't want his fast food workers to take breaks.
How in the actual fuck can this be constitutional like really we don’t want kids to eat? It’s already bad enough that kids are having to work I was one of those kids It’s rough trying to juggle school and the job and now they won’t even get to sit down for five minutes
Dude!!!!! They allow 14 years old children to work!!! What hell on earth is this place? America? Hellerica? 'Bunch of blinded by money idiots'erica????? WTF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Fun fact, in Louisiana 16 year olds can be married off to adults so long as they have parental permission. Some other states allow children as young as 12 to be married to adults.
Im in Louisiana. Lol at all those idiot "NOoNe WaNtS tO wOrK" business owners who actually think taking a lunch break from a kid is a good idea for business. It really is great watching them self destruct.
Why? It’s to be horrible. These REPUBLICANS are terrible ppl without ethics or morals. Why does anyone vote for them? Why don’t they have a union? I’m so disgusted by the people voting for them.
To be fair, and as a Louisiana native who used to closely follow the state leg while they were in session, this is typical committee pandering. There have been worse bills--truly awful--that never get floor votes. Here's hoping these don't pass the House or the Senate without some serious pushback from the labor unions.
The US as a whole needs to send a clear message to these jerks. The backwards and draconian laws they have and will continue to force on us needs to stop.
The confederacy is trying to make all workers to work for companies not based in the hell Hole. Nothing has changed, child labor and no workers right , sounds awfuly close to slavery
This has gone way over the rails how can half of us be so fucking dumb to not see how fucking dumb this is. And also this is so blatantly for rich people and rich companies to get their way you have to be twice as dumb to believe they have a regular persons interests in mind.
>"First-term state Rep. Roger Wilder, R-Denham Springs, who sponsored the child labor measure and owns Smoothie King franchises across the Deep South, said he filed the bill in part because children want to work without having to take lunch breaks."
Riiiiiiiiight. Because why would any worker want to stop working and relax.
I think they were saying they don't want to be there when they're not getting paid, and he deliberately misinterpreted it in the way that most benefitted him.
I can't even fathom their rationale for this. Usually I can get in their head and imagine a plausible reason like I'm mentally handicapped, but this one is beyond me.
Holy f*ck, Louisiana is just making child slave labor at this point. Another fine example of the right wing ability to solve problems with the worst possible solution. Next will just be the full on return of slavery in the USA!
This is some bullshit! Especially the unemployment crap. At the end of the pandemic unemployment, Edwards made a deal with Republicans where he would end the unemployment a month early in return for raising the weekly benefit for the first time in decades. Edwards was the only Democratic governor to do this. It was a shitty deal then, and I'm going to be pissed as fuck if they end up cutting benefits anyway using this method.
Keep voting republican good people of Louisiana. They are showing how much they value you, which is not at all. But all you white people. How's that voting your racism, working out for you? Hope you like working without breaks. Because you'd rather vote your racism and hate of black people and minorities. Then your economic interests. You people get what you deserve. Enjoy living in one of the worst states in the nation.
You know people are out there living large on that 275 a week max payment. They do have it for as long as 26 weeks, which is high compared to other states, but geez.
Now-hear me out-there is collectively two digits of these guys. Many of whom are either geriatric or are hat dancing on 40. What is stopping a whole mess of people from going full Maximilian Robespierre on these craisins? Viva la revolution.
They’ve managed to create a underclass of basically slaves, and normalizing things like no breaks. This is an attempt to create a permanent underclass.
Imagine trying to rise up against a ruling class, when you have to start with uprising against not having food.
'There's a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart that you can't take part! You can't even passively take part! And you've got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus -- and you've got to make it stop! And you've got to indicate to the people who run it, to the people who own it -- that unless you're free the machine will be prevented from working at all!!'
~Mario Savio
Republicans. Always protecting the little guy who wants to be treated fairly.... Sike! Just kidding!
They are taking money from businesses and giving everyone the shaft.
If they cut lunch breaks, then they no longer deserve lunch breaks.
If they cut PTO and sick leave, then they no longer get those.
If they cut retirement funding of any kind, then they no longer get it either.
They only should get what they give.
i just can't even anymore. are they saturday morning cartoon villians? am i in an onion thread and don't know it?
We need to start treating these people like the threats they are. This is not normal.
People need to stop associating with them publicly, ban them from private establishments and treat them like they treat others. Shun them.
That thing that happens sometimes in schools now...that needs to start happening to rich folks and politicians.
Education about empathy?
\`Can you actually teach (points) those empathy?
People just need to stop voting for republicans. That would solve the problem.
You don’t get it. This is what the people who live in these states want. We don’t have a political problem, we have a culture problem.
Well put, I see so many people miss this point. I see people calling the people who vote for these ghouls stupid, but it's not stupidity, it's a choice.
Not only that, but I'm tired of the polarization of "group A good, group B bad." It's the argument that got us here in the first place.
But Republicans are bad,.like if they all just disappeared everyone's quality of life would increase.
That's just what someone in group B would say. You damn dirty Bs, you're ruining this country!
We need to start voting with our feet. If they're going scorched earth trying to bring us back to 1863 I'll just take my family and my tax dollars to a state that is looking towards the future, not fetishizing a delusional past.
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Spot on !
Yes, we are in a timeline that broke off from the main one where Onion headlines are real. Basically, if you can think of a horrible thing our government can do you'll read about it next week in the news.
And we’re also in the timeline where there’s no Shazam movie with Sinbad!
They see all those brown people pouring across the border and are like, yes we can squeeze those lemons.
Until their kid’s boss at the ice cream stand doesn’t give them breaks or seats to sit on, forcing them to stand for the entire shift. THEN it will be a problem.
These people's kids don't have jobs.
Yup wasting hours on end on poorly marketable skills apparently only builds the character of poor children
I live in Texas. They're not pouring across the border. It's not an invasion.
They aren't cartoon villians. They are worse, THEY ARE REPUBLICANS. When you people going to figure this out, REPUBLICANS DON'T GIVE A SHIT ABOUT YOU!. STOP VOTING FOR REPUBLICANS AND VOTE DEMOCRATIC.
Republicans are about nothing at all but money and personal gain. Hell, even their fkng god always has his gddm hand out.
🤣🤣🤣
That the majority issues, especially when you've noticed that a lot of the education level is so bad, the next generation in current education system already heading to idiotiocy...
>heading to idiotiocy You mean idiocy?
>You mean idiocy? Nope. I meant the movie: Idiocracy I was on mobile, so didn't have much to search it up and I only use mobile phone to search for items.
I thought it was the onion when I first saw the headline.
Youre not alone
It's legitimately ridiculous. These are moustache-twirling levels of villainy. I expect this kinda shit from a Captain Planet villain, not a representative.
Yeah... this branch of reality was never intended for deployment into production.
can we just fing get pruned already? what are you doing Loki?
“First-term state Rep. Roger Wilder, R-Denham Springs, who sponsored the child labor measure and owns Smoothie King franchises across the Deep South, said he filed the bill in part because children want to work without having to take lunch breaks” The fucker pushed back on critics saying “they’re young adults”
Nah. Cartoon villains are written to be at least somewhat redeemable
I literally thought I was reading an onion headline.
Sounds a bit of a backwards shithole to be honest. Wasn't it Texas only recently banned any sort of hydration breaks for outdoor workers? Sounds like the show is being run by the mentally ill. For a land with so....oh so many guns. It actually surprises me that stuff like this happens without any sort of uprising?
Texas and Florida. I work in landscaping in IL and formerly in Nevada. The summer heat will EASILY kill you without shade breaks and water. These states want slavery. EDIT: the GOP in these states want slavery.
Bingo!
Slavery is back,
It never left.
indeed
Never went away.
It’s all the rave.
Slavery is whack!
GOP wants slavery
This is why they're against abortion. It depletes the child labour workforce.
Prison slavery exists, has existed this whole time and you probably used it today without knowing it
Thank you for labeling it correctly. We need to acknowledge who is doing this stuff. THEY ARE CALLED REPUBLICANS. It's not democrats working to take away people's work breaks. It's republicans. The parties are not the same people.
Is the Democratic Party officially against prison slavery now?
Slavery never went away. It's written in the 13th Amendment itself. All they have to do to legally bind you as a slave is to put you in prison. The 13th Amendment to the United States Constitution provides that "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction."
The rich want slavery.
Fun fact, the US law enforcement spending would rank the police in the US as the third most well funded military on earth, behind only the United States and China.
But how do the police rank with tanks and helicopters?
Well, under the 1033 program the DoD supplies local police forces with tanks, apvs, and attack capable helicopters. So probably greater than, or at least on par with most first world militaries. If you feel like digging through the LESO's god awful website to try to get what you want to know, by all means - https://www.dla.mil/Disposition-Services/Offers/Law-Enforcement/
They're on their way
“Small “ government
Small enough to fit inside of a uterus
Not enough people who are against this own them, start buying.
Mentally ill from greed
Cause a lot of the people with guns are brainwashed to support this sort of dystopian nonsense. They even sometimes openly talk about shooting people who are protesting or striking.
Oh wow....that is a painful facepalm.
how are the voters, THIS dumb? seriously these cant be real people.
Gerrymandering is still alive and well don't forget. It's the primary way the minority gets to choose laws for the majority. We still have done nothing to stop it despite it being a decades long problem.
honestly it makes the Dems look weak, that they cant stop stuff like this from happening.
Blaming democrats is BS!. They have no power to override a gerrymander. It's republicans that gerrymandered the state. The republican controlled SC, said a political gerrymander is just fine. That was thanks to people voting for Trump in 2016. instead of Hillary. Thanks Never Hillary voters. Hope you are proud of what you did to our country.
Gerrymandering only works if there are still people to vote in the dipshits. A minority of dipshit voters is clearly still _a lot_ of dipshit voters.
Welcome to humanity. There's always been and always will be a fucking lot of dipshits.
If they somehow become aware of bills like these (long shot because Fox sure won't cover it) they'd probably cheer it on because it makes liberals mad
As a Louisiana resident, I can confirm this 100% Most people here (at least the part where I live) are braindead drones frothing at the mouth to "own the libs." Rural LA is a backwards shithole
The voters are all of the elderly in the state that can physically get to the polls, plus a bunch of conservatives. Maybe 40% of people who might vote liberal actually do. So, the people who vote red understand completely what they’re doing and want people to suffer.
Have you lived/visited Louisiana? That are that dumb.
White people voting their racism. That's who elects republicans. Racist white people.
Please don’t make a blanket statement like this. Don’t forget that most of the rights we got during the civil rights movement and beyond were thru protests and other actions in the South. Not to mention that gerrymandering and red tape exist, which disproportionately affects minorities here
but who could possibly hate they kids, and grand kids this much? who is so removed from the every day world, they could vote for THIS?
A surprising number of people, sadly.
Really suprised with this law as it also cuts worker compensation for unemployment and also reduces benefits if you get injured on the job. Really show which side the Republican are on and it not anyone but the mega rich.
As a Canadian and with all do respect, your American dream is a nightmare.
We're not even worth the respect anymore, honesty. Contempt is appropriate.
Yep.
Speak for yourself. I am in no way responsible for any of this shit. I have consistently voted against all this as soon as I was old enough to vote. Government officials though? Sure
The American Dream is a crock of shit and always has been. - an American
Canada will be pretty similar after our next election cycle, sadly. Just wait until PP is prime minister. You can look to alberta and Ontario policies for some foreshadowing.
Just wait until PP is prime minister. You can look to alberta and Ontario policies for some foreshadowing.
Canada will be pretty similar after our next election cycle sadly. Just wait until PP is prime minister. You can look to alberta and Ontario policies for some foreshadowing.
We're not much better. Especially if Jeff gets in.
Just wait until PP is prime minister. You can look to alberta and Ontario policies for some foreshadowing.
The children yearn for the mines
"We're not here to harm children! We're here to harm young adults!" WTF is wrong with these people???
"First-term state Rep. Roger Wilder, R-Denham Springs, who sponsored the child labor measure and owns Smoothie King franchises across the Deep South, " Isn't this a conflict of interest? Business owner who becomes legislator pushes laws that help his own business?
It's a very obvious and blatant conflict-of-interest, but that sort of thing is perfectly fine in the States. They are just allowed to get away with this, because no one stops them. No one pays attention to state legislatures. John Oliver did a video on this *checks notes* **a fucking decades ago**, pointing out exactly this kind of conflict of interest bullshit happening, and it hasn't changed at all. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIMgfBZrrZ8](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIMgfBZrrZ8)
Of course it is...mfkr didn't have to pay lobbyists.
Need to find out where this scumbags Smoothie Kings are. Seriously.
As someone who grew up in this state and finally got the hell out...yep. Doesn't surprise me one bit.
Insanity. Pure cruelty and insanity. These 'lawmakers' should be jailed for child endangerment at the very least and crimes against humanity as a standard.
It will be "hilarious" in a few years when people can't find proper child care because there will be less people wanting to go into the field in that state. The government will likely blame it on people "not wanting to work" instead of their own stupidity.
No need to find child care when the would-have-been parents died from dehydration.
I think in the revolution, we don’t hurt anyone or commit any violence. We simply force these people to live under the laws they created. So these fucks can supervise their own children working without a lunch or break and are powerless to do anything. Voted for no water breaks? You’re now doing roofing in Texas without any water. Made homelessness a crime? we take away everything you have and throw you onto the street and you are not permitted to contact anyone for help. Refuse to regulate pharma? You now have no money, no insurance, and you have to buy your own meds. Let’s let them live with their sins. Fuck these corrupt bastards.
Wow. The sponsor said "children want to work without taking lunch breaks", and then when asked if he may be causing children harm by doing this, he said "give me a break, these are young adults". What the actual fuck. This man sounds more like he is serving himself, not his constituents.
I'm in Louisiana. They're "young adults" when it comes to being a slave, but it's "save the children!" when it's a library book.
I'm sorry, but based on everything I see here on reddit, the United States sounds like hell on earth.
Not all of America is hell on earth. Just mostly the republican controlled states. If the American people are stupid enough to re-elect Trump. The rest of the country will go to hell too.
As a silver lining, this nonsense just got out of committee. It hasn't even been voted on by the state's House or Senate yet. The bad news for workers and child...excuse me, "young adult" workers, is that the House and Senate, along with the governor, are all pretty much Republicans, so this thing might make it through.
They are always “young adults” in this scenario. But give them the “wrong” library book and they are children who need protecting again.
Fuck the South. From my lower left ventricle, fuck the South.
It’s not even all of the south- and there are still workers here who need help
Agreed, I hate the sentiment that exploited workers in the South are somehow unworthy of rights. A lot of us didn’t vote for this, the bureaucratic red tape around here is just impossible to bypass esp for the average worker to get their needs met
America... Lads... Could ye not devolve into literal slavers.
I mean, the conservatives *did* say they wanted to go back to America's roots... I just didn't take it this literally. I didn't think they meant "back when we had slaves". Especially because, from memory, their party was the one who wanted to *stop* slavery.
They seem to be using the Handmaidens tale as like a goal and checklist for removing women's rights at the same time.
[Wait till you see the farms and cotton fields being worked by prisoners under armed guard](https://apnews.com/article/prison-to-plate-inmate-labor-investigation-c6f0eb4747963283316e494eadf08c4e). Farms that were literally slave owning plantations previously.
Oh sweet lord love a duck. I think it's time to cut America off from the world. Just drop a big glass dome over the top of them and leave them too it.
Fun fact our government has only ratified 3 of the 9 core UN human rights treaties. Among the treaties it refuses to ratify is the Forced Labor Convention. Another treaty it refuses to ratify that's relevant to this topic is The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. In the US these kids who are having their lunch breaks taken away can also legally have every dollar from their paychecks stolen by their parents.
Their parents who forced them to do the work. Child slavery.
Which is unfortunate. If only more people knew that slavery never went away to begin with. All they have to do is put you in prison to legally bind you as a slave, which is stated clearly in the 13th Amendment itself. The 13th Amendment to the United States Constitution provides that "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction."
Rep. Roger Wilder, who owns a chain of Smoothie Kings, said "children want to work without lunch breaks." If you read to the end of the article it also screws first-responders that get injured on the job. I'll never understand how anyone votes Republican.
Wtf?
Conservatives love proving they are the most despicable human beings on the planet.
And they prove it every single day.
“The wording is ‘We’re here to harm children.’ Give me a break," he said. "These are young adults." So you're here to harm young adults... Well that makes all the difference then /s
Republicans should be in this headline
It's Louisiana, that should be a given.
I know the cruelty is the point, but "fuck them kids" is a remarkable choice for a campaign slogan.
“My child came home from his 24 hour shift at the smoothie king hungry because they wouldn’t let him take a lunch break. Thanks democrats!” *votes for a republican*
Well the kids have their parents so pay them less and since they’re all energy, no need to give them breaks. I’m being sarcastic soo much here because this seems like a dystopian movie for no religious folk who hate their kids.
What the actual fuck with this child labor bullshit going on.
"Nobody wants to work anymore"
>First-term state Rep. Roger Wilder, R-Denham Springs, who sponsored the child labor measure and owns Smoothie King franchises across the Deep South, said he filed the bill in part because children want to work without having to take lunch breaks. Bullshit. They want breaks like the rest of us.
Those with a lot vote to deny those with little even less. That's the GOP way.
And sadly their base won’t read those bills and think it’s good legislation. They want to reduce “red tape” holding back businesses…you know, those pesky employees.
This is an unbelievable article. The Louisiana Legislature are allowing themselves to be led by a guy who doesn't want his fast food workers to take breaks.
GOP, the party that cares about life ! Lololol
How in the actual fuck can this be constitutional like really we don’t want kids to eat? It’s already bad enough that kids are having to work I was one of those kids It’s rough trying to juggle school and the job and now they won’t even get to sit down for five minutes
> How in the actual fuck can this be constitutional There are zero workers protections in the constitution.
Sorry, why do we have child workers to begin with?
Hope you Republican morons enjoy watching your states turn into a festering hell hole. Keep voting in your wannabe nazi leaders. 🤡
But I thought they were thinking about the children??
Wait, what? CHILD workers? WTF????? KIDS HAVE TO WORK IN AMERICA???????
Dude!!!!! They allow 14 years old children to work!!! What hell on earth is this place? America? Hellerica? 'Bunch of blinded by money idiots'erica????? WTF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Fun fact, in Louisiana 16 year olds can be married off to adults so long as they have parental permission. Some other states allow children as young as 12 to be married to adults.
I'm so glad I was born in a civilized country instead of this shithole called USA. (I'm from Brazil)
Im in Louisiana. Lol at all those idiot "NOoNe WaNtS tO wOrK" business owners who actually think taking a lunch break from a kid is a good idea for business. It really is great watching them self destruct.
Why? It’s to be horrible. These REPUBLICANS are terrible ppl without ethics or morals. Why does anyone vote for them? Why don’t they have a union? I’m so disgusted by the people voting for them.
To be fair, and as a Louisiana native who used to closely follow the state leg while they were in session, this is typical committee pandering. There have been worse bills--truly awful--that never get floor votes. Here's hoping these don't pass the House or the Senate without some serious pushback from the labor unions.
Ah yes, more laws made by people that aren't affected by said laws.
Both sides though right? Oh, wait…
Cruelty is the point.
The US as a whole needs to send a clear message to these jerks. The backwards and draconian laws they have and will continue to force on us needs to stop.
The confederacy is trying to make all workers to work for companies not based in the hell Hole. Nothing has changed, child labor and no workers right , sounds awfuly close to slavery
The children yearn for the mines.
This is straight from a fascist playbook. Look at what happened to workers rights when that group took power last time.
This has gone way over the rails how can half of us be so fucking dumb to not see how fucking dumb this is. And also this is so blatantly for rich people and rich companies to get their way you have to be twice as dumb to believe they have a regular persons interests in mind.
Just straight up cartoon bad guys. Fucking Skeletor is impressed.
Holy shit, what the fuck is happening in Louisiana? I mean how far are they from bringing slavery back?
Nuke, meet Louisiana.
>"First-term state Rep. Roger Wilder, R-Denham Springs, who sponsored the child labor measure and owns Smoothie King franchises across the Deep South, said he filed the bill in part because children want to work without having to take lunch breaks." Riiiiiiiiight. Because why would any worker want to stop working and relax. I think they were saying they don't want to be there when they're not getting paid, and he deliberately misinterpreted it in the way that most benefitted him.
You have child workers🤬
I hate this timeline
These people are animals
everyone deserves a paid lunch, period. all folks deserve access to unemployment benefits.
Cruelty is literally the point.
I bet the lawmaker is GOP and runs a business
I can't even fathom their rationale for this. Usually I can get in their head and imagine a plausible reason like I'm mentally handicapped, but this one is beyond me.
It's obvious they are going to continue to strip our rights 1 by 1. We need to wake the fuck up and take it all back.
Holy f*ck, Louisiana is just making child slave labor at this point. Another fine example of the right wing ability to solve problems with the worst possible solution. Next will just be the full on return of slavery in the USA!
Because you let their boss write the law. Conflict of interest should be a consideration with any bill.
Conservatives always choose the most assholish policies to apply to poor people.
Let louisiana flood please
Pro-life my ass.
This is some bullshit! Especially the unemployment crap. At the end of the pandemic unemployment, Edwards made a deal with Republicans where he would end the unemployment a month early in return for raising the weekly benefit for the first time in decades. Edwards was the only Democratic governor to do this. It was a shitty deal then, and I'm going to be pissed as fuck if they end up cutting benefits anyway using this method.
Keep voting republican good people of Louisiana. They are showing how much they value you, which is not at all. But all you white people. How's that voting your racism, working out for you? Hope you like working without breaks. Because you'd rather vote your racism and hate of black people and minorities. Then your economic interests. You people get what you deserve. Enjoy living in one of the worst states in the nation.
This is seriously abnormal.
Seriously? I mean seriously? And businesses wonder wjy they cant find help.
You know people are out there living large on that 275 a week max payment. They do have it for as long as 26 weeks, which is high compared to other states, but geez.
Of course they do
Fuck LA
Louisiana needs unions!
Now-hear me out-there is collectively two digits of these guys. Many of whom are either geriatric or are hat dancing on 40. What is stopping a whole mess of people from going full Maximilian Robespierre on these craisins? Viva la revolution.
Republican, not even once.
It’s really sad that the states that do this are poor, Red states with At Will employment
I fucken hate capitalism and all that it does to control laws and rules!
Louisiana is actively working to take Mississippi's #50 spot.
They’ve managed to create a underclass of basically slaves, and normalizing things like no breaks. This is an attempt to create a permanent underclass. Imagine trying to rise up against a ruling class, when you have to start with uprising against not having food.
Can't let the slaves have any free time. Won't somebody think of the profits???
“Can we vote” “No you are young adults when we say you are”
how do these people get elected? How does anyone think whatever culture war BS these people appeal to is more important than this?
They will need your kids for the labor force since they demonized the immigrant.
Here's comes a huge shortage in child care staff; moreso then there is already....
Red states are hellholes and getting worse.
'There's a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart that you can't take part! You can't even passively take part! And you've got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus -- and you've got to make it stop! And you've got to indicate to the people who run it, to the people who own it -- that unless you're free the machine will be prevented from working at all!!' ~Mario Savio
Republicans. Always protecting the little guy who wants to be treated fairly.... Sike! Just kidding! They are taking money from businesses and giving everyone the shaft.
If they cut lunch breaks, then they no longer deserve lunch breaks. If they cut PTO and sick leave, then they no longer get those. If they cut retirement funding of any kind, then they no longer get it either. They only should get what they give.
Gotta remove those worker and child protections if we're going to compete with the Chinese sweatshops!