House GOP memo blasts Whitmer’s paid family leave proposal as ‘summer break for adults’

Inb4 the totally-not-shills arrive to add "No no no fellow poors! Voting changes nothing, do you know what I be saying, my dog? You should not even try to vote, surely it will not make a difference. Working within the "system" can never succeed, dude, so I just stay at home playing among us and catching pokeyman creatures. On no account should you ever vote, for rizzle."

Can you please think of the shareholders for one second?

I'd love to hear what argument these fuck-knuckles have that would make, "I voted against family leave" - or even, "I voted against summer break for adults" - not make them unelectable...

They do it all over Europe. So clearly it would never work, for insert dumbass probably racist reason here.

There's a slam dunk move Democrats could make here by bringing a clean bill that has everything Republicans want plus a stipulation that all government officials for Minnesota must work every day that the rest of us work. Have the senators and representatives during a federal Congress recess meet with their constituents back home for 40 hours a week.

Even Republican voters would frown at the Republicans trying to worm their way out of it.

Next, Democrats should introduce a bill to replace their government healthcare with private health insurance companies, and see how loudly Republicans squeal.

You don't get it though. They have to sit on their butts for hours at a time unless they feel like not showing up for work that day. It's a very demanding job for only $174,000/yr (unless they work even harder to hide the alternative forms of income) and they only get to vote raises for themselves once every two years.

They do. They just don't actually take part in raising them.

They usually eat them upon birth. There's farm to table for restaurants and vag to devils gut with politicians.

Do they have them? Technically yes. Did they raise them? Doubt it

I took two weeks off after my first son was born. That was definitely NOT a vacation. Obviously, I didn't have to go through the really hard part (giving birth). To help my wife rest, I'd take any nighttime crying sessions plus half of the daytime ones while I was home. Getting up at 11pm, 1am, 1:30am, 1:50am, 3:30am, 3:50am, etc was not a vacation by any stretch of the imagination.

I was exhausted and stressed having to take care of this little one whose very life depended on me. It was a rough adjustment. I'm very happy to have had my boys, but anyone who thinks having a baby is akin to a vacation either offloads all the real work to someone else or takes some really horrible vacations.

Yes, because they are mostly old white men who offload that to their wife and/or nanny

Yes, they do. Because they have a whole team of people to take care of their kids and household for them. We're talking about people who if they've ever touched a cleaning product it was likely decades ago....

Yeah, I'll take one of those please.

seeing all of f1 take august off is a privilege im too american to understand.

I'm hoping for camping and national lampoons vacations and spending time with your kids.

Am I close?

conservatives be like "you only suck your bosses' dick??! How selfish"

Honestly I'm starting to think that it's not important to them what they force you to do, only that they can force you to do what they want.

Incidentally, should I want it, I can take a paid month off at any time at my job.

I don't see why this is a problem, except that the GOP don't know how to run a business or a government.

I’ve heard her name in that context too. Does the president need a new running mate? Will he step aside if a strong contender appears? Assuming he continues through a second term, who will stand up as future candidates? Maybe Whitmer.