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

[HappyJoy]

That idea alone gets you 30% of the vote.

Yeah, the angry greedy white guy thing just isn't something most Americans will support. Not sure why Republicans think they will.

Where does the money come from?

Give em their leave and call it a day. Opposing this is just plain stupid. Can Republicans do anything right these days?

They can nominate Trump, lose massively and then a cosmic shift will take place in this country. That or demographics will take care of it.

I actually like Trump. But I doubt they'll nominate him. I'm sure they'll go with another milquetoast wimp like Romney.

I don't think Bush is going to make it. Who is the other milquetoast?

 

[SAYIT]

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

The Family Act bill does not provide any care or services or support. It requires others to provide those things at their expense. Plenty of employers offer these benefits as part of their compensation package... others simply offer different bennies like higher wages. Workers can choose which they prefer. This is just more misguided gov't meddling in the labor market and more of the same old loony left whining by you. Give it up, Comrade.[/QUOTE]

 

[David_42]

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

The Family Act bill does not provide any care or services or support. It requires others to provide those things at their expense. Plenty of employers offer these benefits as part of their compensation package... others simply offer different bennies like higher wages. Workers can choose which they prefer. This is just more misguided gov't meddling in the labor market and more of the same old loony left whining by you. Give it up, Comrade.

[/QUOTE]
"The Family Act bill does not provide any care or services or support. It requires others to provide those things at their expense. Plenty of employers offer these benefits as part of their compensation package... others simply offer different bennies like higher wages. Workers can choose which they prefer. This is just more misguided gov't meddling in the labor market and more of the same old loony left whining by you. Give it up, Comrade."
It requires others, yes, paid leave needs to be guaranteed to the millions who lack it, like every other fucking country. You lunatics have used the same "LET THE MARKUT CORRECT ITSULF" bullshit for decades, with safety regulations, child labor, the minimum wage.. You're always wrong.

 

[Two Thumbs]

If Dems believed in freedom and America, they'd stop demanding the government use tyranny to get their way.


but they don't, they hate, absolutely hate, freedom and America.

 

[David_42]

If Dems believed in freedom and America, they'd stop demanding the government use tyranny to get their way.


but they don't, they hate, absolutely hate, freedom and America.

Paid leave is tyranny? I guess every other country is suffering then, OH GOD, THE PAID LEAVE, IT'S LITERALLY KILLING US. LOL.

 

[jillian]

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.

they don't care about "families". they care about forcing women back into the kitchen...

because Jesus

 

[jillian]

If Dems believed in freedom and America, they'd stop demanding the government use tyranny to get their way.


but they don't, they hate, absolutely hate, freedom and America.

Paid leave is tyranny? I guess every other country is suffering then, OH GOD, THE PAID LEAVE, IT'S LITERALLY KILLING US. LOL.

insane, aren't they?

 

[OKTexas]

How can the Republican Party believe it's gonna get the White House back anytime soon? Most Americans will not support a Party represented by heartless greedy white dudes. It's not a winning Platform.

Didn't Franklin say something like, when the public finds they can vote themselves money from the treasury it will spell the end of the republic? From the treasury or stolen at the point of a gun by government thugs, same difference

 

[Sun Devil 92]

They will scream that since it helps the little guy it is unconstitutional and socialism. These people could give a shit less about 99% of this nation.

Sick bastards.

Can you possibly open your mouth (figuratively speaking) without vilifying those who don't agree with you.

That is, of course, the mark of a real open minded leftwinger.

 

[Two Thumbs]

If Dems believed in freedom and America, they'd stop demanding the government use tyranny to get their way.


but they don't, they hate, absolutely hate, freedom and America.

Paid leave is tyranny? I guess every other country is suffering then, OH GOD, THE PAID LEAVE, IT'S LITERALLY KILLING US. LOL.

It's over your head, I know, you're a leftist are are unable to think for yourself.

When the government passes a law, they force people to follow it. So when the government passes a law that forces businesses to pay people to not work, big business loses competition since the small biz is having a harder time competing.

That's as simple an explanation I can give you, I know you didn't understand though.

 

[SAYIT]

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

The Family Act bill does not provide any care or services or support. It requires others to provide those things at their expense. Plenty of employers offer these benefits as part of their compensation package... others simply offer different bennies like higher wages. Workers can choose which they prefer. This is just more misguided gov't meddling in the labor market and more of the same old loony left whining by you. Give it up, Comrade.

It requires others, yes, paid leave needs to be guaranteed to the millions who lack it, like every other fucking country. You lunatics have used the same "LET THE MARKUT CORRECT ITSULF" bullshit for decades, with safety regulations, child labor, the minimum wage.. You're always wrong.

Woo. First you admit I am right ("The Family Act bill does not provide any care or services or support. It requires others to provide those things at their expense"), then you claim I am always wrong.

Are you off your meds again, Comrade?

Are you blinded by your own "brilliance?"

 

[Sun Devil 92]

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.

Is this serious.

 

[hortysir]

If Dems believed in freedom and America, they'd stop demanding the government use tyranny to get their way.


but they don't, they hate, absolutely hate, freedom and America.

Paid leave is tyranny? I guess every other country is suffering then, OH GOD, THE PAID LEAVE, IT'S LITERALLY KILLING US. LOL.

Forcing a company to offer paid leave is tyrannical. Yes.

 

[Two Thumbs]

If Dems believed in freedom and America, they'd stop demanding the government use tyranny to get their way.


but they don't, they hate, absolutely hate, freedom and America.

Paid leave is tyranny? I guess every other country is suffering then, OH GOD, THE PAID LEAVE, IT'S LITERALLY KILLING US. LOL.

insane, aren't they?

we have an employment problem, we have a corruption by big biz problem in politics, but you want to give them more influence by crushing their competition.


If you were capable of thinking for yourself, you could figure it out.

 

[paulitician]

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.

Is this serious.

Yeah. Sums up angry greedy white Republican guy.

 

[ScienceRocks]

Loserterians want to go back to 1890 or before. They don't give a shit about human rights or workers rights...

They just want no government in the economy and if you end up a slave...Well, too damn bad.

Forget roads, science institutions and educating our children as all those things need to be abolished as far as they're concerned. I really do wish these people would get out of my country and go live in Somalia or some other place that doesn't have these things. Oh'yess, take Ted effin Cruz with them.

Many companies already provide paid leave. Leave it alone and let the market sort it out.

We could leave it alone with air quality, food, workers conditions and on down the list to slavery. Would it be right? Fuck no.

 

[OKTexas]

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.

Another fine example of commiecrats endless desire to give away other peoples money to buy votes for themselves.

Virtually every other country on earth guarantees paid leave, many workers lack it, it's common sense.

Sure, it makes sense to people wanting to buy votes with other peoples money, you have no right to dictate the terms of a private companies employment contracts.

Buying votes with others money? Giving workers paid leave is common sense and benefits workers, the employers, families.. America is so backwards with people hating their jobs thanks to idiots like yourself. Um, the government does have the right, the civil rights act, the minimum wage, safety regulations, child labor laws, making sure people can't work shifts without an 8 hour break in between, etc, etc..

Constitution prohibits government interference with contracts, but when have they ever let a little thing like the Constitution stand in their way, especially you commie MFs.

 

[Sun Devil 92]

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.

Is this serious.

Yeah. Sums up angry greedy white Republican guy.

So what happened to your Rand Paul attitude ?

 

[paulitician]

The Republican Party continues to shoot itself in the foot. It's very unwise opposing this. Most Americans will view the stance as hateful and greedy. Not a winning position. It'll come back to haunt em.

 

[paulitician]

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.

Is this serious.

Yeah. Sums up angry greedy white Republican guy.

So what happened to your Rand Paul attitude ?

Still support Rand on many issues.

 

[Sun Devil 92]

Loserterians want to go back to 1890 or before. They don't give a shit about human rights or workers rights...

They just want no government in the economy and if you end up a slave...Well, too damn bad.

Forget roads, science institutions and educating our children as all those things need to be abolished as far as they're concerned. I really do wish these people would get out of my country and go live in Somalia or some other place that doesn't have these things. Oh'yess, take Ted effin Cruz with them.

Many companies already provide paid leave. Leave it alone and let the market sort it out.

We could leave it alone with air quality, food, workers conditions and on down the list to slavery. Would it be right? Fuck no.

But you want to back to pre-Reagan times ????

And you keep littering your posts with spittle.