If Republicans Cared About Families, They’d Stop Blocking Paid Leave

[paulitician]

Hopefully they'll have a heart and change course on this one. The Republican Party is having a tough enough time trying to shed its 'Angry Greedy White Guy' image. Opposing this won't help.

And if not for the press protecting them the democrats and their racism would be easily seen by all Americans. But luckily for them….the press protects them.

Yup, you're really gonna show those evil American Mothers. Nice to see you angry greedy white Republican dudes got your priorities straight.

 

[Pop23]

Why do you require even more govern"mental" intervention.
Private industry is free to offer paid maternity leave anytime they feel like it. Some companies have already started the ball rolling.

Four words constantly need repeating for you thick-skulled dembulbs:

LET THE MARKET DECIDE

Why not let children work in factories, underpaid and over worked? Let the market decide, works for the third world.

That is exactly what the republican tea party wants...These bastards want to destroy all the protections and regulations that have built this nation over the last 150 years.

Evil is what they're. As simply they wouldn't care if this country looks like central America as long as the rich got theirs.

Where is there time for maternity leave????

There are 365 days this year.

There are 52 weeks per year in which you already have 2 days off per week, leaving 261 days available for work.

Since you spend 16 hours each day away from work, you have used up 170 days, leaving only 91 days available.

You spend 30 minutes each day on coffee break. That accounts for 23 days each year, leaving only 68 days available.

With a one hour lunch period each day, you have used up another 46 days, leaving only 22 days available for work.

You normally spend 2 days per year on sick leave. This leaves you only 20 days available for work.

We are off for 5 holidays per year, so your available working time is down to 15 days.

We generously give you 14 days vacation per year which leaves only one day available for work and I'll be damned if you're going to take that day off!

Yeah, fuck those bitches! Gettin pregnant an shit. That shit's their problem.

How the hell did this country thrive for over 200 years without this?

Good god

 

[rightwinger]

Republican "family values" don't exist, unless it involves protecting zygotes.
If Republicans Cared About Families, They’d Stop Blocking Paid Leave

Several participants at the Republican debate last week spoke fervently about putting Rosa Parks’ image on the $10 bill. They also spoke fervently in support of a decision by Congress to defund Planned Parenthood—an organization that counted Rosa Parks among the members of its national board.

The contradiction would have been obvious and painful to Ms. Parks. Like many of us, she’d have been bewildered by the priorities of candidates who have held vote after vote on shutting down vital health services for women, but won’t even schedule a hearing on the FAMILY Act, a bill to provide affordable family and medical leave. It’s impossible to care about families and leave communities bereft of services for contraception, mammograms and other cancer screenings, and dozens more critical health services for women. It’s also impossible to call yourself “pro-life” and oppose a badly-needed, common sense program to make family and medical leave affordable to care for a new child or a seriously ill family member.

In 1993, the Family and Medical Leave Act passed Congress with bipartisan support. The FMLA provided up to 12 weeks unpaid leave for care of a new child or a serious personal illness or that of a child, spouse or parent. Republicans as well as Democrats saw that valuing family meant making sure people could care for family members without losing their jobs or health insurance. Many of the state and local campaigns within Family Values @ Work’s national network have leaders from both parties—including the numerous Republicans leading the charge for the Family Care Act in Georgia.

So what’s the problem in the nation’s capital today?

The FMLA is now 22 years old. While it constituted a major breakthrough and established the principle that having a family shouldn’t cost you your job, the leave remains out of reach for millions—some because they’re not covered by its protections (two-fifths of the nation’s workforce), and many who are eligible because they cannot afford to take unpaid leave. According to a study done for the Department of Labor (DOL), nearly one in four employed mothers who are pregnant go back to work within two weeks of giving birth—with disastrous results for maternal and infant health. Others who take the time they need to heal and bond with a child often face financial hardship.

That is called stealing. When the government interferes with a business like that…they are wrong. If a business wants to pay for leave…great. It isn't the governments job to mandate it.

Of course it is

It is the governments job to establish labor laws. That is why we no longer have child labor and have established a 40 hour week

The free market wouldn't do either

 

[M14 Shooter]

Republican "family values" don't exist, unless it involves protecting zygotes.

You don't have a job that has paid leave?
Your fault.
No one else.
Just you.

 

[SAYIT]

He wouldn't be today.

Are you 'channeling' Bunker for that response? lol just curious....

I could be Bunker.

 

[BluesLegend]

Okay first off many companies already offer parental leave to both parents, mine does. We didn't need the dumb ass government to force us to offer it. Second, what makes you think other companies that are not as well off financially can just shit money out their ass to pay for this benefit? Libs seem to assume companies are greedily hoarding a huge supply of money when in fact many companies struggle and historically thousands of companies big and small have gone bust.

If the libs want to ensure that the only companies that survive their socialist agenda are the big corporations, well just keep passing more and more regulations. Hey I told you before the left is retarded.

Many marginal companies do go bust
Not a reason to sacrifice worker protections. Should we waive the 40 hour week and overtime for companies that are struggling?

That is some liberal idiocy right there ^^^

 

[rightwinger]

Condoms break

Not when used correctly. Use a quality brand, do not "double bag," and use "fresh" condoms (i.e. ones that have been bought recently). You're not hung like a stallion, no matter how much you want people to think you are. Condoms don't break unless you're doing something wrong.

BC pills mess up

The pill is 99.9% effective when used correctly. Use it the right way and there won't be a problem.

people can't prevent these things.

Bullshit. Use a double barrier approach, and stick to oral/anal sex for "unleashing." The sharks can't take the bait when you put them in a different tank.

Most times birth control is effective

That is why we should make it readily available and cheap/free

It is readily available, cheap/free…….

And not having sex is the most readily available and cheapest birth control method…and doesn't involve the government taking money from one person to pay for another persons birth control...

100% of unwanted pregnancies are due to a failure of abstenance

 

[rightwinger]

Okay first off many companies already offer parental leave to both parents, mine does. We didn't need the dumb ass government to force us to offer it. Second, what makes you think other companies that are not as well off financially can just shit money out their ass to pay for this benefit? Libs seem to assume companies are greedily hoarding a huge supply of money when in fact many companies struggle and historically thousands of companies big and small have gone bust.

If the libs want to ensure that the only companies that survive their socialist agenda are the big corporations, well just keep passing more and more regulations. Hey I told you before the left is retarded.

Many marginal companies do go bust
Not a reason to sacrifice worker protections. Should we waive the 40 hour week and overtime for companies that are struggling?

That is some liberal idiocy right there ^^^

It is the way the civilized world works. Unchecked capitalism is not in the best interests of the public

 

[easyt65]

Most times birth control is effective

That is why we should make it readily available and cheap/free

SEE, THIS is the B$ I have a problem with....just like with the headlines today about how OBAMA is going to pay for a new program to give free housing, food, education, and legal services to illegals, NOTHING is 'free', and OBAMA ain't paying for 'Shi'ite! NOTHING! It's all MY money and YOUR money, right out of OUR pockets.

- If ya want to have sex, get a job and PAY for a pack of condoms!

- If ya choose to have sex and get pregnant, YOU pay for the abortion if you choose to have one.

- Single mothers, the govt should step in and help pay for your 1st illegitimate child...and give you an education on how not to have another and a warning NOT to have another because tax payers aren't going to be paying for any more of your kids....

- If you have any more you can't afford the govt should step in and take the kids for their own sake

- If you have any more out of wedlock that you can't afford the govt should take them too and then sterilize you.

The govt should stop teaching 4th graders how to perform oral sex, how to masturbate, and how having 2 daddies is ok, especially since our education system blows...Johnny can't READ when he gets out of school, but he knows how to masturbate, how to orally please someone, and has a pocket full of 'free' condoms'! Good grief!

STOP teaching sex in schools - they've got that down pat now. How about teaching them some restraint and personal accountability?!

 

[SAYIT]

Most times birth control is effective. That is why we should make it readily available and cheap/free

It is good to see you can admit that most unwanted and unplanned pregnancies are the work of those who enjoyed the sex.
Maybe, just maybe, those engaging in sex should take responsibility for buying contraceptives and what results when they don't.

 

[easyt65]

100% of unwanted pregnancies are due to a failure of abstenance

Also known as 100% Personal CHOICE. Amen!

 

[kiwiman127]

Despite all of the GOP's campaign promises regarding helping/boosting the middle class, they have not done one thing to back up their promises.
This is just another example.
Their blockage of raising the minimum wage is another. Poll after poll showed over 3/4s of Americans supported raising the minimum wage.
Cato came out with a report that raising the minimum wage helped 70% of the middle class. The GOP claimed that raising the minimum wage would cause inflation and cause more unemployment, but factual history does not back that claim.
But the GOP did help the top 0.02% with their legislation to eliminate the "death tax.
Funny how the GOP found the time to help the very few but refuse to help tens of millions average Americans,

 

[M14 Shooter]

Despite all of the GOP's campaign promises regarding helping/boosting the middle class, they have not done one thing to back up their promises.
This is just another example.

You don't have a job that has paid leave?
Your fault.
No one else.
Just you.

Their blockage of raising the minimum wage is another.

You don't have a job that pays more than minimum wage?
Your fault.
No one else.
Just you.

 

[SAYIT]

That is called stealing. When the government interferes with a business like that…they are wrong. If a business wants to pay for leave…great. It isn't the governments job to mandate it.

Of course it is
It is the governments job to establish labor laws. That is why we no longer have child labor and have established a 40 hour week
The free market wouldn't do either

You don't know that.

The 40 hour workweek is a luxury not enjoyed by most biz owners (nor many salaried workers) and child labor laws are a moral imperative upon which we all agree.

Employer paid leave is not.

 

[David_42]

Then you're truly stupid. Condoms break, BC pills mess up, people can't prevent these things. Luckily we have abortion.

Everything in life has some associated PERSONAL risk and a PERSONAL consequence. If you decide to have sex, with or without a contraceptive, and you end up getting pregnant, WHY do MY tax dollars have to go towards YOUR 'elective surgery'?

If I decide to go sky-diving and my chute ends up failing for whatever reason 15 feet off the ground and I shatter my leg, YOU aren't forced to pay for MY surgery.

If I decide to marry someone I just met, the marriage fails 4 months later, and I divorce my wife YOU aren't forced to pay for the divorce...or the alimony!

Part of the problem is that people have no sense of personal accountability, which we can blame in large part to jack@$$es like Obama who blame everyone else for their mistakes. If THEY do something wrong / get into trouble because of something THEY did they believe it is someone else's job to pay for it, not them.

Its the same "let em die" story from 2008
If someone chose not to have healthcare and got cancer....what should you do?

This thread is turning into one hell of a ride right winger.

 

[David_42]

Okay first off many companies already offer parental leave to both parents, mine does. We didn't need the dumb ass government to force us to offer it. Second, what makes you think other companies that are not as well off financially can just shit money out their ass to pay for this benefit? Libs seem to assume companies are greedily hoarding a huge supply of money when in fact many companies struggle and historically thousands of companies big and small have gone bust.

If the libs want to ensure that the only companies that survive their socialist agenda are the big corporations, well just keep passing more and more regulations. Hey I told you before the left is retarded.

Many marginal companies do go bust
Not a reason to sacrifice worker protections. Should we waive the 40 hour week and overtime for companies that are struggling?

That is some liberal idiocy right there ^^^

It is the way the civilized world works. Unchecked capitalism is not in the best interests of the public

Unchecked capitalism was the reason government grew in the first place, in Europe, in Latin America, in Canada.. These "free market" worshippers who claim the market will fix itself are stupid.

 

[M14 Shooter]

Unchecked capitalism was the reason government grew in the first place, in Europe, in Latin America, in Canada..

This is, of course a lie.

 

[David_42]

Condoms break

Not when used correctly. Use a quality brand, do not "double bag," and use "fresh" condoms (i.e. ones that have been bought recently). You're not hung like a stallion, no matter how much you want people to think you are. Condoms don't break unless you're doing something wrong.

BC pills mess up

The pill is 99.9% effective when used correctly. Use it the right way and there won't be a problem.

people can't prevent these things.

Bullshit. Use a double barrier approach, and stick to oral/anal sex for "unleashing." The sharks can't take the bait when you put them in a different tank.

Most times birth control is effective

That is why we should make it readily available and cheap/free

That's "socialism." God forbid poor people have access to birth control..

 

[thanatos144]

Republicans oppose abortion

But if a pregnant worker needs time off to have a baby....that is her problem

Need, nobody needs time off, they want it and now at others expense. People that think that way have no business having kids.

This is the backwards 19th century thought process the right wing introduces.

Screw you, it was true then, it's true now.

Your hatred of working people and mothers who want time with their kids is disgusting.

Since you wish the make rich people broke it is you who hate working people and since you like all liberal think women are nothing more then fuck toys who should kill thier children in would say it is you who hate women and children

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[rightwinger]

Most times birth control is effective

That is why we should make it readily available and cheap/free

SEE, THIS is the B$ I have a problem with....just like with the headlines today about how OBAMA is going to pay for a new program to give free housing, food, education, and legal services to illegals, NOTHING is 'free', and OBAMA ain't paying for 'Shi'ite! NOTHING! It's all MY money and YOUR money, right out of OUR pockets.

- If ya want to have sex, get a job and PAY for a pack of condoms!

- If ya choose to have sex and get pregnant, YOU pay for the abortion if you choose to have one.

- Single mothers, the govt should step in and help pay for your 1st illegitimate child...and give you an education on how not to have another and a warning NOT to have another because tax payers aren't going to be paying for any more of your kids....

- If you have any more you can't afford the govt should step in and take the kids for their own sake

- If you have any more out of wedlock that you can't afford the govt should take them too and then sterilize you.

The govt should stop teaching 4th graders how to perform oral sex, how to masturbate, and how having 2 daddies is ok, especially since our education system blows...Johnny can't READ when he gets out of school, but he knows how to masturbate, how to orally please someone, and has a pocket full of 'free' condoms'! Good grief!

STOP teaching sex in schools - they've got that down pat now. How about teaching them some restraint and personal accountability?!

Its OUR money and We the People, as a society, pay the price for a lack of birth control

More unwanted children, more abortions, more burdens on families, more burden on the school system, more welfare

Open access to low cost birth control benefits society....pay me now or pay me more later