Lawmakers on a Louisiana House committee voted Thursday to repeal a law requiring employers to give child workers lunch breaks and to slash unemployment benefits — part of a Republican-backed
There is some absolutely hilarious material in here, were it instead fictional.
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.
“I keep trying to give them lunch breaks but they insist on doing what’s in the best interest my pocket lining!”
And my favorite, also from Roger Wilder:
“The wording is ‘We’re here to harm children.’ Give me a break," he said. "These are young adults.”
Could you imagine the delivery of this line, with just the right amount of pause after “give me a break” and the right expression to the camera if this were said on something like Parks and Rec?
There is some absolutely hilarious material in here, were it instead fictional.
“I keep trying to give them lunch breaks but they insist on doing what’s in the best interest my pocket lining!”
And my favorite, also from Roger Wilder:
Could you imagine the delivery of this line, with just the right amount of pause after “give me a break” and the right expression to the camera if this were said on something like Parks and Rec?
Lmao my god… isn’t the implication then that they’re here to harm the young adults? He didn’t say give me a break we’re not here to harm anyone.