Obama Ban on Youth Farm Chores Part of Larger Power Grab

[Optimus]

Rural kids, parents angry about Labor Dept. rule banning farm chores

A proposal from the Obama administration to prevent children from doing farm chores has drawn plenty of criticism from rural-district members of Congress. But now it’s attracting barbs from farm kids themselves.

The Department of Labor is poised to put the finishing touches on a rule that would apply child-labor laws to children working on family farms, prohibiting them from performing a list of jobs on their own families’ land.

Under the rules, children under 18 could no longer work “in the storing, marketing and transporting of farm product raw materials.”

“Prohibited places of employment,” a Department press release read, “would include country grain elevators, grain bins, silos, feed lots, stockyards, livestock exchanges and livestock auctions.”

The new regulations, first proposed August 31 by Labor Secretary Hilda Solis, would also revoke the government’s approval of safety training and certification taught by independent groups like 4-H and FFA, replacing them instead with a 90-hour federal government training course.

Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2012/04/25/rural-kids-parents-angry-about-labor-dept-rule-banning-farm-chores/#ixzz1t3d33b8U

[larsonstdoc]

  This country gets worse and worse every day.  

  Unbelievable.

  My brother-in-law needed his kids to help him on his farm.

  This will not go over well in rural America.

  Will this scheming against real Americans ever stop?

[larsonstdoc]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilda_Solis

  THIS NWO SCUM HILDA SOLIS--SEC OF LABOR--- HAS BETRAYED IMMIGRANTS.

Hilda Lucia Solis (pronounced /sɵˈliːs/; born October 20, 1957) is the 25th United States Secretary of Labor, serving in the Obama administration. She is a member of the Democratic Party and served in the United States House of Representatives from 2001 to 2009, representing the 31st and 32nd congressional districts of California that include East Los Angeles and the San Gabriel Valley.
Solis was raised in La Puente, California by immigrant parents from Nicaragua and Mexico. She gained degrees from the California State Polytechnic University, Pomona (Cal Poly Pomona) and the University of Southern California (USC) and worked for two federal agencies in Washington, D.C. Returning to her native state, she was elected to the Rio Hondo Community College Board of Trustees in 1985, the California State Assembly in 1992, and the California State Senate in 1994. She was the first Hispanic woman to serve in the State Senate, and was reelected there in 1998. She became known for her work toward environmental justice and was the first female recipient of the John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award in 2000.
Solis defeated a long-time Democratic incumbent as part of getting elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 2000, where she focused mainly on labor causes and environmental work. She was reelected easily to four subsequent terms. In December 2008, President-elect Barack Obama announced his intention to nominate Solis as the next United States Secretary of Labor. She took office after being confirmed by the United States Senate in February 2009, becoming the first Hispanic woman to serve in the U.S. Cabinet.

[larsonstdoc]

Rural kids, parents angry about Labor Dept. rule banning farm chores

A proposal from the Obama administration to prevent children from doing farm chores has drawn plenty of criticism from rural-district members of Congress. But now it’s attracting barbs from farm kids themselves.

The Department of Labor is poised to put the finishing touches on a rule that would apply child-labor laws to children working on family farms, prohibiting them from performing a list of jobs on their own families’ land.

Under the rules, children under 18 could no longer work “in the storing, marketing and transporting of farm product raw materials.”

“Prohibited places of employment,” a Department press release read, “would include country grain elevators, grain bins, silos, feed lots, stockyards, livestock exchanges and livestock auctions.”

The new regulations, first proposed August 31 by Labor Secretary Hilda Solis, would also revoke the government’s approval of safety training and certification taught by independent groups like 4-H and FFA, replacing them instead with a 90-hour federal government training course.

Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2012/04/25/rural-kids-parents-angry-about-labor-dept-rule-banning-farm-chores/#ixzz1t3d33b8U

  SORRY ABOUT PICKING THIS ARTICLE APART but can you imagine what this 90 hour federal government program will be about?  

  The farmers will then probably have to have licenses and then the illegitimate government will therefore put them under administrative law.  It's true--they want us all under administrative law--kangaroo courts with no Constitutional rights.

  This is another "beyond evil" story.

[lee51]

Amazing!  Whatever happened to common sense and good work for kids? I was raised on a farm and while I griped at times because of the work, I worked right alongside my parents--and it didn't hurt me a bit.

Why does our government come up with such stupid proposals? This even affects 4-H which is really big in my area.  Just another stupid law so the FEDS can sweep in on family farms with their big guns and cause havoc with families, taking children from parents.  

UNBELIEVABLE!!

[chris jones]

 This move deteriorates the child's ability to comprehend the reality , survival.
If you work you have food on the table. I spent years on my uncles small farm, shoveling cow dung for the manor spreaders to weeding the veg garden, collecting the eggs, whatever had to be done. Lesson, life itself, there is no free ride, and common sence is diminished by the fact they have no hands on, the realization we need to sweat to eat, the basics of life.
 They want todays children virtually dependent and loyal to their decisions, keep them on the video games or in the streets. Basically they have us in a corner, but whats the big picture include, THE CHILDRENS MINDS and the future.
 

[Effie Trinket]

The more tyrannical they become, the more enemies they will be forced to fight.  These people are their own worst enemy because they are destroying themselves and their own families.

[MonkeyPuppet]

First of all, FLSA doesn't apply to family farms that do not produce for export to other states.  FLSA is for those manufacturers and producers engaged in commerce, and commerce is defined as "trade, commerce, transportation, transmission, or communication among the several States or between any State and any place outside thereof".

Furthermore, even though the mere receipt of a subsidy does not necessarily change the first point at all, if your family farm receives no federal subsidies, FLSA and associated regs couldn't apply to you, either.

Also, these are regulations.  Regulations are supposed to provide specific enforcement methods as dictated by the broad language of the statute (the statute being FLSA @ 29 U.S.C.).  Read the codified statute yourself and you'll see what I'm talking about above.  The law only applies to whom it applies... and 99 times out of a 100, that ain't you or even who you think it is!!

There are all manner of twisted ways for the federal government to claim jurisdiction.  Just be sure to avoid them... interstate commerce is a big one, federal subsidies, and the needless filing of federal tax forms for domestic income by Americans.  Avoid these and poof... the feds and their screwed up decree have zero weight in law.

Congress is not all powerful, but if you give them a way into your personal life, they'll manage every aspect of it... for your own good, of course.  Stop opening the damn door!! (metaphorically speaking)

[Effie Trinket]

http://foodfreedomgroup.com/2012/04/23/obama-seizes-farmers-money/
Another way to kill US farmers: Seize their bank accounts on phony charges

By Rady Ananda
Food Freedom News

Monsanto’s Food and Drug Administration can’t close down small dairies and private food clubs fast enough, bursting on the scene with guns drawn as if the criminalized right to contract for natural foods we’ve consumed for millennia deserves SWAT attention.

Now, Obama has the Dept. of Justice going after small farmers under the post-911 “Bank Secrecy Act” which makes it a crime to deposit less than $10,000 when you earned more than that.

“The level we deposited was what it was and it was about the same every week,” Randy Sowers told Frederick News. The Sowers own and run South Mountain Creamery in Middletown, Maryland.

Admittedly, when the Sowers earned over $10,000 in February, and learned they’d have to fill out paperwork at the bank for such large deposits, they simply rolled the deposits over to keep them below the none-of-your-f**king-business amount, rather than waste time on bureaucratic red tape aimed at flagging terrorism or other illegal activities.

“Structuring,” explains Overlawyered.com, “is the federal criminal offense of splitting up bank deposits so as to keep them under a threshold such as $10,000 above which banks have to report transactions to the government.”

While being questioned, the Sowers were finally presented with a seizure order and advised that the feds had already emptied their bank account of $70,000.  The Dept. of Justice has since sued to keep $63,000 of the Sowers’ money, though they committed no crime other than maintaining their privacy.

Without funds, they will be unable to make purchases for the spring planting.

When a similar action was taken against Taylor’s Produce Stand last year, the feds seized $90,000, dropped the charges, and kept $45,000 of Taylor’s money.

Knowing that most farms operate on a very thin margin, such abuse of power wipes out a family’s income, and for a bonus, the feds enhance the monopoly power of Monsanto, Big Dairy and their supply chain.

You can just smell attorney Michael Taylor behind all this, Obama’s dairy dog.  Who you’ll find, instead, is US district attorney Stefan Cassella. He’s the first to head the DOJ’s Asset Forfeiture & Money Laundering Section, created in 2009, having wrote the books on it. He cut his teeth on seizing $1.2 billion from real money launderer, BCCI.  Guess his focus has changed since then.

The Maryland Dept. of Agriculture had no trouble hitting up the Sowers for a recipe in its Buy-Local cookbook; but Cassella must’ve missed that public service, or it’s what drew his attention – “Ah! A small dairy! Let’s rob them of their cash, those evil Big Dairy competitors. They probably sell raw milk under the table. Even if we find no evidence of wrongdoing, we’ll keep their money anyway.” (Cue Curly’s, “yuh, yuh, yuh.”)

City Paper reports that in 2011, “Maryland brought 14 of the nation’s 99 structuring cases, making it the top state for such prosecutions.  Nationally, the numbers have been rising; the 2011 figures are up 8.8 percent from the year before and up 57.1 percent from five years ago.”

Funny, Bank of America, Goldman Sachs, and other criminal banksters are still in operation, despite committing millions of acts of fraud during mortgage reassignations. But the DOJ prioritizes squashing family farmers since it’s easier to pick the low-hanging fruit than do battle with well-financed criminals who’ve illegally seized the homes of millions of US citizens.

Former Maryland assistant U.S. attorney Steven Levin told the paper, “The emphasis is on basically seizing money, whether it is legally or illegally earned. It can lead to financial ruin for business owners, and there’s a potential for abuse here by the government.”

Ya think?

The Bank Secrecy Act was modified* after 9/11, another in a long line of Constitutionally-abhorrent laws enacted by officials who cannot prove they were elected to office (given those elections were held on electronic voting systems that can be hacked without leaving evidence of the crime).

With the current Administration’s Agenda 21 focus on destroying the natural food and herb industry, is it not unsurprising to see unconstitutional terrorist legislation used on innocent, law abiding citizens?

*Last updated April 25.

[Optimus]

Obama Ban on Youth Farm Chores Part of Larger Power Grab
http://www.infowars.com/obama-ban-on-youth-farm-chores-part-of-larger-power-grab/

Kurt Nimmo
Infowars.com
April 25, 2012

Dredging up Dickensian horrors of child labor, the Obama administration has ordered the Labor Department to apply child labor laws to family farms. The new rules would make it illegal for children to perform a large number of labor tasks that have been performed by farm families for centuries. Traditionally, adults and children alike helped with planting and harvesting in the spring and fall, but the federal government is now determined not only to make this a historical footnote, but a criminal offense.


Children have worked with their families on farms for centuries.
It is the reason there is now a “summer vacation” for school kids.

Under the rules, children under 18 would be prevented by the federal government from working “in the storing, marketing and transporting of farm product raw materials” and prohibited “places of employment would include country grain elevators, grain bins, silos, feed lots, stockyards, livestock exchanges and livestock auctions.”

In addition to making it far more difficult for families to work their farms, the new rules will revoke the government’s approval of safety training and certification taught by independent groups like 4-H and FFA and replace them with a 90-hour federal government training course, the Daily Caller reports.

In other words, the federal government will forcibly insert itself in the business of teaching animal husbandry and crop management, disciplines traditionally passed on by families and local communities.

Government apparatchiks will now oversee the business of local farming the same way Stalin did when he collectivized farms and “socialized” production at gunpoint in the Soviet Union. Resistance by farmers and peasants to Stalin’s efforts resulted in the government cutting off food rations, which resulted in widespread famine (the “terror-famine in Ukraine” killed around 12 million people) and millions were sent to forced labor camps.

The Labor Department’s effort to further erode the family farm falls on the heels of an unconstitutional executive order Obama issued last year establishing so-called rural councils.

“According to this new executive order, the Obama administration plans to stick its itchy little fingers into just about every aspect of rural life,” the Economic Collapse Blog noted at the time. “One of the stated goals of the White House Rural Council is to do the following….”

    Coordinate and increase the effectiveness of Federal engagement with rural stakeholders, including agricultural organizations, small businesses, education and training institutions, health-care providers, telecommunications services providers, research and land grant institutions, law enforcement, State, local, and tribal governments, and nongovernmental organizations regarding the needs of rural America.

Obama’s plan to make life miserable for family farmers coincides with an effort by the United Nations under Agenda 21. Section one of the executive order mentions “sustainable rural communities,” language right out of Agenda 21. (For more on the draconian aspects of Agenda 21 and the plan to roll back modern civilization under the aegis of “sustainability,” see Rosa Koire’s Behind the Green Mask: U.N. Agenda 21.)

The federal government has recently moved to clamp down on family farms. For instance, last year the Department of Transportation proposed new burdensome rules for farmers. Incidentally, DOT Secretary Ray LaHood holds a seat on the newly created White House Rural Council.

“In Late May, the DOT proposed a rule change for farm equipment, and if it this allowed to take effect, it will place significant regulatory pressure on small farms and family farms all across America – costing them thousands of dollars and possibly forcing many of them out of business,” writes Mike Opelka. “The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA), part of the Department of Transportation (DOT), wants new standards that would require all farmers and everyone on the farm to obtain a CDL (Commercial Drivers License) in order to operate any farming equipment. The agency is going to accomplish this by reclassifying all farm vehicles and implements as Commercial Motor Vehicles (CMVs).”

Late last year, House Republicans moved to prevent the EPA from further burdening farmers with a rule that would ban “farm dust.” Outrage in response to the proposed regulation came fast and furious and EPA boss Lisa Jackson was forced to back down as Democrats complained that the government was not targeting small family farms with the proposed regulation.

A concerted effort by the federal government to attack small family farms cannot be denied. Infowars.com has covered dozens of efforts, including the attack on Rawesome Foods in California, numerous efforts by the feds to attack raw milk and dairy farmers (including attacks by the FDA on Amish farmers), and a recent effort by the Department of Natural Resources in Michigan to destroy open-range pig farms.

In addition to attempting to micromanage – and run out of business – family farms through federal labor regulations, the government is trying to insert itself in the relationship between parents and their children.

The ongoing attacks on family farming are not merely misguided efforts by control freak bureaucrats. They are part of a larger “comprehensive plan of action” to be taken globally, nationally and locally by organizations of the United Nations to institute “sustainable development,” a philosophy designed to bring humanity under tight control of the global elite.

As George H. W. Bush said on September 11, 1990, the plan is “based entirely on social control mechanisms.” For the elite, controlling food – especially healthy and natural food produced by family farms – is a primary objective in their plan for global conquest.

[Optimus]

Obama creates Agenda 21 w/WeinerGate - White House Rural Council - E.O. 13575
http://forum.prisonplanet.com/index.php?topic=211072.0

Does The New ‘White House Rural Council’ = UN’s Agenda 21?

On June 9, 2011, President Obama signed his 86th Executive Order, and almost nobody noticed.

(For the record, Obama is on par to match President Bush’s 291 orders executed during his two terms in office. The National Archives defines an Executive Order this way; Executive orders are official documents, numbered consecutively, through which the President of the United States manages the operations of the Federal Government.)

President Obama’s E.O. 13575 is designed to begin taking control over almost all aspects of the lives of 16% of the American people. Why didn’t we notice it?  Weinergate.  In the middle of the Anthony Weiner scandal, as the press and most of the American people were distracted, President Obama created something called “The White House Rural Council” (WHRC).

Section One of 13575 states the following:

    Section 1. Policy. Sixteen percent of the American population lives in rural counties. Strong, sustainable rural communities are essential to winning the future and ensuring American competitiveness in the years ahead. These communities supply our food, fiber, and energy, safeguard our natural resources, and are essential in the development of science and innovation. Though rural communities face numerous challenges, they also present enormous economic potential. The Federal Government has an important role to play in order to expand access to the capital necessary for economic growth, promote innovation, improve access to health care and education, and expand outdoor recreational activities on public lands.

Warning bells should have been sounding all across rural America when the phrase “sustainable rural communities” came up. As we know from researching the UN plan for Sustainable Development known as Agenda 21, these are code words for the true fundamental transformation America.

The third sentence also makes it quite clear that the government intends to take greater control over “food, fiber, and energy.”

The last sentence in Section 1 further clarifies the intent of the order by tying together “access to the capital necessary for economic growth, health care and education.”

The new White House Rural Council will probably be populated by experts in the various fields that might prove helpful to the folks who live and work outside of large urban areas, right?  Well, Tom Vilsack, the current Secretary of Agriculture, will chair the group, but let us review the list of members appointed to serve on this new council – according to the order, the heads of the following groups have been appointed:

    (1) the Department of the Treasury; Timothy Geithner
    (2) the Department of Defense; Robert Gates
    (3) the Department of Justice; Eric Holder
    (4) the Department of the Interior; Ken Salazar
    (5) the Department of Commerce; Gary Locke
    (6) the Department of Labor; Hilda Solis
    (7) the Department of Health and Human Services; Kathleen Sebelius
    ( the Department of Housing and Urban Development; Shaun Donovan
    (9) the Department of Transportation; Ray LaHood
    (10) the Department of Energy; Dr. Steven Chu
    (11) the Department of Education; Arne Duncan
    (12) the Department of Veterans Affairs; Eric Shinseki
    (13) the Department of Homeland Security; Janet Napolitano
    (14) the Environmental Protection Agency; Lisa Jackson
    (15) the Federal Communications Commission; Michael Copps
    (16) the Office of Management and Budget; Peter Orszag
    (17) the Office of Science and Technology Policy; John Holdren
    (18) the Office of National Drug Control Policy; R. Gil Kerlikowske
    (19) the Council of Economic Advisers; Austan Goolsbee
    (20) the Domestic Policy Council; Melody Barnes (former VP at Center for American Progress)
    (21) the National Economic Council; Gene B. Sperling
    (22) the Small Business Administration; Karen Mills
    (23) the Council on Environmental Quality; Nancy Sutley
    (24) the White House Office of Public Engagement and Intergovernmental Affairs; Valerie Jarrett
    (25) the White House Office of Cabinet Affairs; and such other executive branch departments, agencies, and offices as the President or Secretary of  Agriculture may, from time to time, designate. Chris Lu (or virtually anyone to be designated by the 24 people named above)

It appears that not a single department in the federal government was excluded from the new White House Rural Council, and the wild card option in number 25 gives the president and the agriculture secretary the option to designate anyone to serve on this powerful council.

Within the twenty-five designated members of the council are some curious ties to Agenda 21 and the structure being built to implement it:

    Valerie Jarrett from the White House Office of Public Engagement and Intergovernmental Affairs served on the board of something called Local Initiatives Support Corportation (LISC). LISC uses the language of Agenda 21 and ICLEI as their web page details their work to build “Sustainable Communities.”

    Melody Barnes head of the Domestic Policy Council – Former VP at George Soros-funded Center for American Progress.

    Hilda Solis from the Labor Dept – in 2000 received an award for her work on “Environmental Justice.”

    Nancy Sutley head of the White House Council on Environmental Quality – Served on the board of the Los Angeles Metropolitan Water District and was one of the biggest supporters of low-flow toilets that are now credited with costing more money than expected while causing some nasty problems.

Is it possible that concerns about 13575 are just typical anti-government paranoia? Let us review the mission and function of WHRC:

    Sec. 4. Mission and Function of the Council. The Council shall work across executive departments, agencies, and offices to coordinate development of policy recommendations to promote economic prosperity and quality of life in rural America, and shall coordinate my Administration’s engagement with rural communities.

“Economic prosperity” and a better “quality of life,” that all sounds fairly innocent and well-intentioned. But continuing deeper into the order we find the council is charged with four directives:

    (a) make recommendations to the President, through the Director of the Domestic Policy Council and the Director of the National Economic Council, on streamlining and leveraging Federal investments in rural areas, where appropriate, to increase the impact of Federal dollars and create economic opportunities to improve the quality of life in rural America;

The vague language here sounds non-threatening. But, is there a hint here that a “rural stimulus plan” might be in the making? Will the Federal government start pumping money into farmlands under the guise of creating “economic opportunities to improve the quality of life in rural America?” It is difficult to discern as the language is so broad.

We continue with the functions of the WHRC:

    (b) coordinate and increase the effectiveness of Federal engagement with rural stakeholders, including agricultural organizations, small businesses, education and training institutions, health-care providers, telecommunications services providers, research and land grant institutions, law enforcement, State, local, and tribal governments, and nongovernmental organizations regarding the needs of rural America;

Continued...

Continued from above. . .

Virtually every aspect of rural life seems to now be part of the government’s mission. And while all of the items in (b) sound like typical government speak, you should be alarmed when you read the words “nongovernmental organizations” (NGOs). NGOs are unelected, but typically government-funded groups that act like embedded community organizers. And NGOs are key to Agenda 21′s plans.

Continuing:

    (c) coordinate Federal efforts directed toward the growth and development of geographic regions that encompass both urban and rural areas;

That one sounds very similar to the language found in the United Nations plan for sustainable cities known as Agenda 21. Managing the population in both rural and urban areas, with a focus on controlling “open spaces.”

    (d) and identify and facilitate rural economic opportunities associated with energy development, outdoor recreation, and other conservation related activities.

This function of Executive Order 13575 ties energy development with outdoor recreation and “other conservation related activities.” When did outdoor recreation become a conservation related activity?

Aside from the content of this order and some its vague intentions, the timing of the signing should also be considered. Later this month, Washington DC is hosting a meeting of the Agenda 21 operatives who are members of ICLEI:

    Washington, D.C. – ICLEI-Local Governments for Sustainability USA (ICLEI USA) and U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) today announced the launch of the National Press Club Leadership Speaker Series to be held on June 28. The event’s inaugural keynote speaker will be the Honorable Sha Zukang, Secretary-General of the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20), whose keynote address, The Road to Rio+20, will explain the role of key global and national stakeholders, and the impact and vision of this historic conference.

    As Secretary-General of Rio+20, Ambassador Sha Zukang will convene high-ranking leaders from government, the private sector and civil society to chart a pathway to accelerate the implementation of sustainable development decisions and the green economy through the creation of an institutional framework and inclusive participation.

The United Nations has pushed their sustainable development program for almost twenty years. The UN’s “social justice” blueprint called Agenda 21 requires governments to control almost all aspects of an individual’s life, but has recently met with substantial resistance in America. Since The Blaze covered this topic and the story appeared on Glenn Beck’s Fox TV program, we have been inundated with reports from around the country about efforts to remove ICLEI and Agenda 21 from local governments.

Carroll County, Maryland: Starting in February, 2011, all five newly elected county commissioners, led by Richard Rothschild, voted to become the first county in the nation to end the ICLEI contract.

Amador County, California: The Mother Lode Tea Party lead the successful effort to remove ICLEI form Amador County.

Montgomery County, Pennsylvania: Activists Ruth Miller and Maggie Roddin have raised awareness that lead to the removal of ICLEI.

Edmond, Oklahoma: Molly Jenkins motivated 200 people to attend the city council meeting and demand action against ICLEI.

Las Cruces, New Mexico: continues to debate the issue, but rational voices are gaining momentum in the community.

Spartanburg, South Carolina: City Councilman Roger Nutt successfully directed the effort against the program and Spartanburg became the 6th community to kick out ICLEI in a vote of 6-0 by City Council (with one abstention).

There have also been anti-ICLEI rallies held in several cities this week, with more planned in the near future:

    June 27, 11:30am-3:00pm
    Exeter, NH, Exeter High School
    June 27, 5:00pm-8:30pm
    Galveston, TX, Galveston Convention Center
    June 27, 8:30am-5:00pm
    Ocean Shores, WA, Quinault Beach Resort and Casino
    June 30, 1:00pm-5:00pm
    San Francisco Bay Area, CA, TBD
    June 30, 10:00am-5:00pm
    West Long Branch, NJ, Monmouth University

There appears to be a developing, grass-roots movement to reject programs like Agenda 21. It remains to be seen if these groups might also reject a Washington-based control over rural lands, like the council created by Executive Order 13575.

As long as there’s not another Weinergate, maybe they’ll notice.

Barack Obama’s White House Rural Council: Central Economic Planning For America’s Heartland

Barack Obama has issued a brand new executive order that establishes a White House Rural Council.  This Rural Council has been given the task of developing "public-private partnerships" that will seek to bring the "economic prosperity" of our big cities to rural America.  In other words, the U.S. government and the big corporations are going to team up to dominate the economies of our small towns and rural communities just like they dominate the economies of all of our big cities.  So should those that live in rural America be excited about this?  After all, the U.S. government and the big corporations have done such a great job of bringing "economic prosperity" to places like Detroit, Michigan and Camden, New Jersey.  Won't it be great to have the federal government come in and tell rural communities how they should be doing things?

The chair of the White House Rural Council will be Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack.  Vilsack is a former governor of Iowa and a Democrat.  Swing states like Iowa will be key in 2012, and so perhaps Obama is trying to show that he really cares for middle America.

But it is really hard to forget the remarks that Obama made about rural Americans during the 2008 campaign.

In particular, the following quote about the "bitterness" of those living in rural America got a lot of attention at the time....

    "And it’s not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations."

Look, the vast majority of the people who live in rural America do not want to hear that they need to let go of their guns or their religion.

And most of them certainly do not want the federal government to come in and tell them how to run their local economies.

But according to Obama, the U.S. government "has an important role to play" in managing the economies of rural communities.  The following is a direct quote from the executive order establishing the White House Rural Council....

    Though rural communities face numerous challenges, they also present enormous economic potential. The Federal Government has an important role to play in order to expand access to the capital necessary for economic growth, promote innovation, improve access to health care and education, and expand outdoor recreational activities on public lands.

To many Americans, all of this will sound really great.  The federal government is going to come in and help the "backwoods folk" catch up with the rest of us.  What could be wrong with that?

Well, the truth is that whenever the federal government gets its fingers into something it tends to really mess it up.  Many of the biggest problems our country is facing today can be traced directly back to Washington D.C.

Many small towns and rural communities are doing just fine without the interference of the federal government.  In fact, large numbers of Americans have purposely moved out to rural areas because they don't want the interference of the federal government in their lives.

But according to this new executive order, the Obama administration plans to stick its itchy little fingers into just about every aspect of rural life.  One of the stated goals of the White House Rural Council is to do the following....

    coordinate and increase the effectiveness of Federal engagement with rural stakeholders, including agricultural organizations, small businesses, education and training institutions, health-care providers, telecommunications services providers, research and land grant institutions, law enforcement, State, local, and tribal governments, and nongovernmental organizations regarding the needs of rural America

This is yet another example of how we are rapidly becoming a centrally-planned economy.

Today, there are way too many Americans that expect the federal government to solve all their problems and take care of them from birth to death.

But that is not what our founding fathers intended, and our federal government has become so corrupt and so incompetent that it could not do those things even if we wanted it to.

More: http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/barack-obamas-white-house-rural-council-central-economic-planning-for-americas-heartland

[chris jones]

 This is an attack on the the kids, their parents,small farmers and the folks on a poverty level.
Please correct me if I'm wrong, when I was a youngster I lied and got my Social security number when 13 years of age, to work that is. Legally if I remember 14 yrs. was the age.
 I payed my way and it felt good. The wage ( if I remember right) was a tad over a buck  an hour, I was in heaven, helped out my family , bought my own stuff and had the extra to take a girl out on Saturday nights. So what are kids going to do now, hit the streets or get glued to a computer program, idle minds and the boob tube
 Independence is being attacked, the youngsters will feel the effects of this, and the elites will beat their chest.

 

[Effie Trinket]

This is an attack on the the kids, their parents,small farmers and the folks on a poverty level.
Please correct me if I'm wrong, when I was a youngster I lied and got my Social security number when 13 years of age, to work that is. Legally if I remember 14 yrs. was the age.
 I payed my way and it felt good. The wage ( if I remember right) was a tad over a buck  an hour, I was in heaven, helped out my family , bought my own stuff and had the extra to take a girl out on Saturday nights. So what are kids going to do now, hit the streets or get glued to a computer program, idle minds and the boob tube
 Independence is being attacked, the youngsters will feel the effects of this, and the elites will beat their chest.

 

"EVERY FORM of Independence is under attack."
-Alex Jones, 5 years ago in Endgame Blueprint for Global Enslavement intro.

[Geolibertarian]

During the Gilded Age, "child labor" almost always meant preteen and early-teen children working as wage slaves in factories, usually under alarmingly dangerous and disturbingly dehumanizing conditions.

There's a world of difference between that and, say, 12- and 13-year-old children helping their parents plant vegetable seeds on their own farmland, collect eggs from their own chickens, or milk from their own cows.

Extreme left-wingers err in one direction by falsely equating the latter with the former in order to attack it, while extreme right-wingers err in the opposite direction by falsely equating the former with the latter in order to defend it.

In this way, both groups -- despite being supposed "opposites" -- are united in their hostility towards employing any sort of common sense discernment.

[Kilika]

This is part of the bigger picture of forcing the public to be dependent on government services. Take away a family's independence to produce food for their family, where do they turn? The government. This also serves to get all those independent "operations" better under the tax rolls. And ultimately it gets all the family members signed up on the federal program of the day, complete with their shiny new "universal" biometric id.

The writing is on the wall folks! Half of Washington SHOULD be in prison for treason against the United States so far, yet not a soul has even been charged, and the feeding frenzy on the public is picking up speed.

All I can recommend folks is get your heart right with Jesus!

[Geolibertarian]

Nothing embarrasses or enrages Agenda 21 apologists more than to be attacked politically from their left, because it blows the "left cover" on which they so desperately rely:

     http://www.democratsagainstunagenda21.com
     http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ST8Vidb7a8U
    
                         [Image clickable]

[DireWolf]

It seems that the UN has finally gotten a toe-hold where their children's rights agenda is concerned. Soon it will be against the "law" to require your children to do any type of chores. They are coming for our children!!! Right after they get our guns. Not gonna happen.

[Monkeypox]

 This country gets worse and worse every day.  

  Unbelievable.

  My brother-in-law needed his kids to help him on his farm.

  This will not go over well in rural America.

  Will this scheming against real Americans ever stop?

Ovomit doesn't give a shit about rural America.  He could care less, he knows where his votes come from...

[Kilika]

It's Wiki, but it's a start on what this is really about...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/US_ratification_of_the_Convention_on_the_Rights_of_the_Child

The US signed it, but apparently hasn't ratified it, yet...

President Barack Obama has described the failure to ratify the Convention as 'embarrassing' and has promised to review this.[6][7] The United States is the only country except Somalia which has not ratified the Convention.

This affects much more than chores...

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/jan/11/un-treaty-might-weaken-families/

Obama Administration Pushes CRC Ratification
-- 24 June 2009

http://www.parentalrights.org/index.asp?Type=B_BASIC&SEC={1F86E588-AA4A-43A1-998D-D9BF4FBE4D09}

[stymo1]

My Senator had this to say today on his FB account.

Great News tonight! The Department of Labor has listened to the concerns of American farmers and ranchers and withdrawn the proposed farm labor rules. They will not re-propose. Quote from the DOL just released this evening: "The decision to withdraw this rule – including provisions to define the ‘parental exemption’ – was made in response to thousands of comments expressing concerns about the effect of the proposed rules on small family-owned farms. To be clear, this regulation will not be pursued for the duration of the Obama Administration."

https://www.facebook.com/jerrymoran


 But that does not mean we can let our guard down one iota! 

[Kilika]

Indeed. They'll just regroup and try again.

[Optimus]

Labor Dept Pulls Farm Child Labor Rule After Massive Outcry
http://www.infowars.com/labor-dept-pulls-farm-child-labor-rule-after-massive-outcry/

Infowars.com | The Obama administration withdrew a proposed rule Thursday that would have applied child labor laws to family farms.

[Constitutionary]

Whatever happened to the notion that no Bill Obama signs can be law cuz he is NOT a US citizen.

Everything from the executive orders to Obama care...   ALL of it un-constitutional.