Tuesday, February 21, 2012

Childish labors and smokescreens and diversions


Consider the deceiving smokescreens of concern about “child labor,” and how little Johnny and Mary are being prevented from working for Granny and Granddad on the farm or the like.  No parent or grandparent has been arrested, in my research, for employing their child or grandchild, and it is deliberately misleading to try to whip up people that they have, and that “laws need to be changed.”  The family business is mostly left alone, as is much ag really temporary labor. 

But that’s not what others would have you believe.  Therefore, when you hear their rhetoric, tell yourself you will look at motives inside of what is being said, and who is saying it, and who is behind saying it.

When they cease to be able to intellectually and emotionally whirl us around at their whim, we will have taken a giant step toward getting ourselves and our democracy back from what one commentator, borrowing from Transformers, terms “the Decepticons.”

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