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Not the least surprised, considering the push by many Republicans to "modify" child labor laws so that young children can work at dangerous occupations. Meat-packing plants, anyone?

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Another reason why I have never purchased any product at this company -- and never will!

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This program is absolutely sickening and obscene. This is nothing more than an Indoctrination camp. Five year olds ??? I have a five year old granddaughter living with my wife and I and she is smart and precocious for her age but no way would even begin to understand the operation of a fast food chain. What I see is the children given a tee shirt and a Christian Bible and being taught the faith.

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This is what happens when Christianity runs off the rails and blasts through norms and standards.

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This is why the GOP wants to kill public schools. If you can't afford private schools even with a voucher and are unable to home school, your kids will be enslaved into menial jobs. White kids, black kids, all kinds of kids.

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What we are seeing is hyper-capitalism's desperate maneuvers to maintain 20% profit growth rates. In corporate USA, its ALWAYS about the profit rate. Democracy for the people or super profits for the rich -that's the choice we face today.

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It's all about the money. Nothing new.

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What did you expect? That is Corporate America!

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AMEN!

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I want to say, "unbelievable" but sadly, I believe it. When I was about 5 years old the ranch owners where my dad and older siblings worked harvesting whatever was in season, "let" the little kids "help out." It was hot, dusty, gross outhouse /bathroom with no toilet paper, and the work day was 12 hours long. I'm 75 years old now, but the memory remains.

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Excellent analysis, Jim. Can we just focus on learning the basics through playing normal kid games? This is unhealthy.

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Speaking of Christianity, there's a great article in a recent issue of Commonweal on how advertising and the corporate establishment have engineered disrupting the human connection with community for their own benefits and profits. It's a powerful disease agent in the epidemic of loneliness in American society. Important reminder: not all christianity has bought into the radical right wing cult. It's just that they're noisier, tinnier than the rest of us. Go Jim H. !!

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They are about as Christ-like as Joe Stalin. Human scum.

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So true.

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Your message is right on.

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take a big breath, nothing to worry about, by the time those kids grow up those jobs will be done by artificial intelligence and the grown-up kids will be playing on the beach waiting to be organ donors for the elite

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CHICK-FIL-A is a devout Christian organization. Surely they have only the children’s best interest at heart.

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Surely you jest.

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I am not religious, but I keep hoping there's a special place in Hell for such Christian hypocrites who force their dogma on everyone, but lack all human compassion.

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Charles Dickens, roll over - this is the latest version of "Brave New World"

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I give chick fil-a alot of credit for not being open on Sunday but these kids should be getting paid. Chick fil a must have donated a lot of money to a republican to change child labor laws, they must have noticed 5 year olds do a better job. There is something wrong with corporations making u.s. laws thank you heritage foundation.

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After I thought about it those kids should be at a real summer camp and what kind of parent would pay to train a 5 year old to work at chick fil,a.

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