A Louisiana House committee voted Thursday to repeal a law requiring employers to give child workers lunch breaks and to cut unemployment benefits — part of a push by Republicans

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.

China’s revolution could be summarized as a war against the landlords. America’s revolution will be a war against the Franchise Owners.

  • Tankiedesantski [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    7 months ago

    Americans are so incredibly beaten down by capitalists. In any other country with America’s situation, insurance companies would have to be fortified like citadels to stop people who have been denied cover from going out in a blaze of glory.