Take a good look, folks.
If the Republican Party is allowed to take control of both houses of Congress and probably the executive branch thereafter, that will be your son. Your daughter will have little future except to find a husband, quickly and young.
I thought it was a picture of a charter school lunchroom.
Newt Gingrich is proposing that for all public school children of por parents who canāt afford to pay for their kidsā lunch. This is how Republicans like Gingrich think the poor should pay for their poverty, rather than having the rich folks help out a little.
Iām curious to know how many of these boys lived to see their 30th birthday?
And Iāll note that Shorpy dot com is named after a child mine worker just such as these. I think I may even recognize him in one of these photos.
Scott Walker porn.
Oh thatās what theyāre working for . A permanent underclass scrabbling for subsistence wages outside the gates of their gated communities. I think theyāre halfway there as they continue to union bust and de-fund education. Minimum wage? Child labor laws ? Who needs them?
Maine Gov. Paul LePage Ā® said Tuesday that state regulations governing child labor are hurting the stateās economy, according to the Portland Press Herald.
āWe donāt allow children to work until theyāre 16, but two years later, when theyāre 18, they can go to war and fight for us,ā LePage said at an agricultural trade show, according to the paper. āThatās causing damage to our economy. I started working far earlier than that, and it didnāt hurt me at all. There is nothing wrong with being a paperboy at 12 years old, or at a store sorting bottles at 12 years old.ā
Do notā¦I repeat do not open that site at workā¦It will cripple productivity. Totally amazing
A sister site of their blog, āPlan 59ā, has page upon page of poster art and photographs in dozens of categories. Much of it is for sale on fine archival paper for high end framing and display. Donāt tread there either during work. Itāll be another lost day.
A minor quibble, in my 65 years of living in North East Pa, Wilkes-Barre to be exact, Iāve never heard or read mention of āSouthā Pittston. Pittston is far too small to be divided into quarters by points of the compass. My grandfather was a coal miner, was diagnosed with Black Lung yet lived to nearly 102.
You neglected the requisite part of āthe old timer living to over 100ā yarn. Gramps also smoked 3 packs daily of Lucky Strike filterless, drank a quart of whiskey, never wore his seat belt, wouldnāt eat anything unless it was fried first, never exercised and only slept 3 hours a night. There, FIFY.
Two excellent childrenās nonfiction books - for adults, too - about the breaker boys, and Lewis Hineās photographs documenting child laborers in the U.S.:
Breaker boys : how a photograph helped end child labor / written by Michael Burgan.
Kids at work : Lewis Hine and the crusade against child labor / by Russell Freedman ; with photographs by Lewis Hine.
Donāt know who can look at such sights and still believe in benign conservatives.