From: ahk@chinet.com
Rhino wrote:
>On 2026-02-22 5:17 p.m., Adam H. Kerman wrote:
>> BTR1701 wrote:
>>
>>> Seems as though Comrade Mamdani is taking a lot of crap from his fellow
Dems
>>> for requiring five forms of ID to become a city snow shoveler.
>>
>>> He did so poorly clearing the snow from the last storm that he's now asking
>>> people to sign up and volunteer do the shoveling after the upcoming storm
>>> clears. Imagine that. Paying all those taxes for a city department
>>> specifically to clear snow, only to have the government beg you to do it
>>> yourself because they ran out of money.
>>
>>> And to participate in this volunteer snow shoveling program, you have
>>> to show two forms of ID, a Social Security card, and two pictures of
>>> yourself. You need all that to shovel snow in NYC, but to walk in and
>>> vote? Nope, you don't need any of that. And I've been reliably informed
>>> that requiring ID is racist and that blacks and married women won't be
>>> able to participate because they're too thick to figure out how to get ID,
>>> so not only is Mamdani a racist, he's shutting out half the population
>>>from even being able to shovel snow for him.
>>
>> Where do you get that these are volunteers? They are per diem employees
>> which means New York must ask them to comply with both federal tax law
>> and immigration law. They aren't paying illegal aliens to shovel.
>>
>> The stupid crap is minimum age 18. This is a boy's job.
>>
>It's a boy's job if it is just shovelling a couple of driveways. I
>suspect they are looking for a lot more than that out of these
>"volunters" (or temporary employees).
Plenty of boys perform physical labor as chores and do so on behalf of
others as part time work. There's no school so they can work for hours.
This isn't the kind of work child labor law prohibit.
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