Needlenose

Mugato for Congress!

Yet another GOP Congressional courageously calling to flood our job markets with child labor.

About a week ago some self-proclaimed ‘moderate’ (I suspect he was really a Tea Bagger in disguise) called me an ‘extremist’ and an ‘alarmist’ when I joked that the GOP was on a mission to roll back all significant labor, consumer protection and other legislation of the last 100 years in the rush to turn us into a 3rd world cleptocracy.  I guess he doesn’t actually listen to what his leaders are saying.  Check out today’s latest- Newt Gingrich wants to put the children of America to work!  Interesting thought, although with roughly 1 out of 5 adults out of work, not sure what he’d have the kids do…sell True Grit?  They can’t deliver newspapers anymore, that industry is dying.

I wonder if Gingrich and Senator Mike Lee get their radical agenda from reading Needlenose snark…

"My name's Little Cletus and I'm here to tell you a few things about child labor laws, ok? They're silly and outdated. Why back in the 30s, children as young as five could work as they pleased; from textile factories to iron smelts. Yippee! Hurray!"

GOP Tea Bagger Senator Mike Lee wants to get our children working again!  Just what we need in a time of 10% unemployment – more unskilled workers!  Listen, Mike, I was only snarkin’ about y’all bringing back child labor!

*Update 1-20-11* Mike Lee now wants to abolish FEMA!  Let the states do all the disaster relief!  Hey Mississippi – good luck with them floods & hurricanes, you bein’ the poorest state in the Union and all!

Forget privatizing Social Security with individual retirement accounts – that idea is so 2003.   John “Orange Man” Boehner rolls out the newest GOP plan to ‘fix’ Social Security – everybody will just have to work until they die.  What’s next, Orange Man – making up for lost tax revenues by bringing in ‘younger’ workers – like maybe child labor?  With loonies like “Ayn” Rand Paul waiting in the wings for the upcoming election I wouldn’t be too surprised to see that concept mooted.  And with the current reactionary makeup of the SCOTUS, it’s not inconceivable that they might take a strict ‘Originalist’ interpretation of the Federal Government’s ability to restrict labor practices (they’ve ruled in favor of child labor before).

To personalize this just a bit, my mom is still working in her late 70s, and my dad was working up until his first cancer treatments – I imagine a lot of people could say that Boehner’s fix is already the Status Quo.