I just wish everyone would lay off the 1% a little bit... they DO create jobs.

[MiddleFingerMom]

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[Stargleamer]

1. And they so often remind us. . ..

how good help is hard to find.

[lunatica]

2. that photograph is tragic

[NYC_SKP]

3. Look at those little slackers, what is it a break???

:sarcasm:

K/R

[formercia]

8. They're training to be State Highway Crews

Sad. Worn out before they're old enough to have kids of their own.

[PurgedVoter]

4. That can't be America!

It's probably Ohio or Arizona.

[valerief]

5. That's what they do best. nt

[FarLeftFist]

6. Ouchie!

Straight to the front page for this.

[Nitrogenica]

7. Is that a child laborer leaning on a shovel?

The first thing I think about is the right wing/libertarian guy at work talking about the day he drove past a city worker who was leaning on his shovel instead of working. Right wing guy told us this story while he was working. It was a thirty minute rant.

[csziggy]

13. It's an adze or mattock

Adze are tools with the blade at right angles to the handle and are usually wood working tools.


A mattock is used for working on the ground and generally have two blades, an axe blade and an adze blade:


But that kid is clearly loafing, leaning on his tool! :sarcasm:

[provis99]

9. frankly, they didn't even create those jobs.

Demand for the goods and services of these child workers created the jobs, not the rich people that control them.

Rich people have not created a single job in the entire history of the world; that's not how jobs are created.

[RZM]

11. That's a good point

You could dispossess the entire 1 percent in the US and you would still have child labor all over the world. The world does not revolve around the US. The US is just one part of it.

[Luminous Animal]

15. And you don't think that rich people manipulate and control demand?

What corporate produced product have you rejected today?

[Brigid]

10. Yikes!

Please tell me this pic wasn't taken in the good ole USA. :(

[midnight]

12. Heartbreaking. They look like 2-4year olds.

[mwrguy]

14. They do hire a lot of thugs.

Cops gotta eat.