Oregon Update- transportation Secretary Ray LaHood is calling for a FEDERAL BAN ON TALKING ON A CELL PHONE WHILE DRIVING, on any road in the country. LaHood says that the only way to deal with this "national epidemic" is for tough federal legislation. also on the program new rules proposed by the Obama administration would prohibit children under 18 from working in "storing, marketing, and transportation of farm product raw materials and prohibits places of employment such as grain elevators, grain bins, silos, feedlots, stockyards, live stock exchanges and livestock auctions." http://news.yahoo.com/rural-kids-parents-angry-labor-dept-rule-banning-054605888.html (but it gets better) also under the proposal, would revoke the government's approval of safety training and certification caught by groups like 4-H and FFA replacing them with a 90 hour federal government training course. The dumbing down of America continues and we'll talk about it April 30 1 PM Pacific time. Hope you'll join us!
