“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.”
Is this not a conflict of interest? String this motherfucker up in the gallows. It is downright corrupt to write laws that benefit your franchise. Fuck this asshole with a rusted spoon. Take all this online anger and shove it in his smoothie king lobbies.
That won’t happen until you can’t buy food at the grocers. Because the threat of imprisonment outweighs the perceived threat of these actions. Even though, at the end of the day, this law is just as damaging to individuals as an actual prison.
Reading the title I thought they took away the lunch breaks of people working with children and thought “that would de heartless”. Then it dawned on me what the title actually says…
The voters who will approve this guy again think this law will hurt blacks and browns. These voters think “my white child will always have a good boss and get breaks.”
This summer the lawmakers will try to suppress stories about any white children suffering from this.
By the end of next summer, white people will start to realize that they are not immune to this. And it will be too late by then.
Can confirm. Louisiana is actively getting worse because our congress is in a phase of revenge passing bills that our democrat governor had been blocking for the last 8 years, now that we have a newly elected republican governor.
I wish Kansas and Louisiana had more long term memory. Brownback and Jindal were probably the worst governors of the last 50 years, qho did immediate and undeniable harm to their states, resulting in both states voting for Democrats right after. But they then proceeded to go right back to the absolutely terrible ideas.
I think the bigger reason that Vitter lost was the prostitution scandal. Edwards then turned out to be not so bad in Republican eyes that he got a second term.
Here’s the thing: Lots of Republican leaning business owners see it as their right to retaliate against their workers without the gov intervening. So to them, the only thing they see wrong with this is the “child” part, because retaliation against children makes them look bad.
Hence the “they aren’t children” rhetoric.
By the way, this part of the bill was explicitly included by a congressman who owns some franchises and says his underage workers “don’t even want lunch breaks”.
So this is one dude trying to squeeze 20 extra hours of labor from literal children who’s dictating this for the entire state.
Anyone who’s name ends with “the third” should not be allowed to run for office.
Also anyone that calls themselves The X king should be banned from office… Heck, anyone that’s ever owned a business of any sort should be banned from office. These are people not representative of the general public.
I’d rather an easy to manipulate person in office than an explicitly corrupt suit.
But beyond that, wealth and prestige isn’t granted to people based on intelligence or capability. There are plenty of smart capable people that have had lives far more relatable to the average person.
We have more than a few examples of idiot million and billionaires.
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