Has anyone else noticed that we seem to be under attack by a sudden surge of what can only be called stupidity.
Senator Mike Lee is but one in a list of crazies, that was able to pull the wool over the eyes of the voters and get elected.
The tea party, tea baggers, birthers etc and now child labor? What the fuck, you say??
Children working in factories, picking crops and hauling lumber on construction sites is a vision Mike Lee, the Republican senator from Utah, apparently wants to make a reality again in the United States. In a lecture on his YouTube channel, Lee explains in great detail why he believes U.S. child labor laws are unconstitutional.
(Kathy Lee Gifford must be grinning from ear to ear and writhing her hands as we speak of this)
In Lee’s view, the federal government does not have the authority to enact federal minimum wage laws, civil rights laws or to provide Medicare and Social Security.
Lee’s diatribe shows just how determined he and his ilk are to fight the gains workers have made.
Lee is one of the “tenthers”—conservatives who say federal laws and rules like the minimum wage, Medicare, Social Security, unemployment insurance, the Department of Education and a laundry list of other federal laws and programs are unconstitutional.
They argue that if a federal power is not specifically spelled out in the Constitution, the government does not have it, according to their view of the 10th Amendment.
What Lee fails to discuss is the case United States vs Darby, where the supreme court ruled,
The Constitution gives Congress the power “[t]o regulate commerce…among the several states,” and to “make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution” this power to regulate commerce. Even ultraconservative Justice Antonin Scalia agrees that these powers give Congress broad authority to regulate “economic activity” such as hiring and firing.
At time when our unemployment is at it's highest, and our nation teetering on another depression, Sen. Mike Lee believes that best way to pull us back from the edge, is re-instituting child labor?
This is the highest level of concern to Sen.Lee and his constituents? Really?
When everything that is facing the nation is calculated and you carry the one, move the decimal point and press total, all you get is stupidity. Sen. Mike Lee is an idiot.
Please stop wasting our money on bullshit and answer the one question that is on every one's lips
WHERE ARE THE JOBS???
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