[Rusty0604]

From personal experience in business, forcing business to give extensive time off for family matters with pay and benefits and also sometimes having to pay a temporary replacement is very costly to implement and administrate. I have known many employees that abused their "rights". Some of them would have probably lost their jobs because they were not doing it, but the business cannot make that decision if they are family leave.

[Secret Agent Man]

govt - we will become your parents. we’ve been doing it more and more since the 60s.

[Secret Agent Man]

‘burdens’ on women.

you know children are burdens. so says president mom jeans.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

I reject the WH's premise.

[shalom aleichem]

No need to find new ways to ease parenthood so the mom and pop can work.

Look no farther than the old Soviet Union model of removing kids from home and allowing them grow up and be indoctrinated in state run programs and institutions.

[Mamzelle]

Have heard of a couple in Canada--the wife gets nine months maternity, and the dad can claim a few months himself! Some Americans move there, work and have children, then plan on moving back to the US. There are some women who end up working just a couple of months out of every years.

Actually, maybe it's not such a bad idea. As it is, it seems like the only people in the US who are having children are illegal aliens and Muslims.

[ClearCase_guy]

They talk about War on Women, but as the labor participation rate continues to plummet, and as they try to get more women actively working, it sure starts to feel like a War on Working Men.

[DouglasKC]

So let me get this straight....the government wants more women WITH families to work? And these women then have to not only work, but take care of families? Many of these women don't have husbands and of the ones that do I'll guarantee that the majority of men don't do the majority of caring for the children.

So INSTEAD of freeing women from WORK, the government wants to FREE them from raising their family SO they can work??

[Still Thinking]

Crackhead. Besides, thanks to him and to those who share his policy beliefs, THERE ARE NO JOBS!! How can expanding the pool of labor be on the to-do list when there’s already an excess supply? Nitwit. This kind of idiocy is what happens when you let people play with the levers of power who don’t understand how stuff works.

[MUDDOG]

Take a load off Fanny, and they put the load right on me.

[rktman]

Is moochie doin’ her some thinkin’ on her vaca to china? It’s such a “burden” to have to fly on a huge jet with a whole passel of luggage toters and a couple of kids taggin’ along to see how the lower half lives. ‘Course they’ll never see how the real Chinese people live/survive.

[Amendment10]

With the exception of the federal entities indicated in the Constitution's Clauses 16 & 17 as examples, entities under the exclusive legisilative control of Congress, the states have never delegated to the feds, via the Constitution the specific power to address family issues concerning woman. So Obama's first step to making constitutionally indefensible executive orders to demonize the family unit as a “burden” in order to win votes for the Democrats from working women is the following. /sarc

Obama needs to rally Congress to propose a working women amendment to the Constitution to the states for ratification. And if the states choose to ratify his amendment then Congress will have the specific power that it needs to make legislation to support Obama to demonize the family unit as a "burden" in order to win votes from working woman and Obama will be a hero. /sarc

[niteowl77]

He doesn't want anyone's daughters to be burdened with babies; he doesn't want anyone to be burdened with their own doctor; he doesn't want the US military to be burdened with capability; he doesn't want America to be burdened with energy self-sufficiency, he doesn't want anyone on the planet burdened with privacy; he doesn't doesn't want Israel to be burdened with existence, and now he apparently wants to make sure "working women" aren't burdened with controlling any aspect of their own families' lives without government interference.

He just wants to make all of our yokes easy and our burdens light, but only in the best post-Christian, secular humanist, socialist way. Creepy.

Mr. niteowl77

[ex-snook]

Thanks God for women. God has endowed them with an abundance of love and caring for their family. But it is the government that endowed them with the burden of bread winner by making it palpable for business to export the jobs of their husband. Of course, business needs little incentive to grab for a bigger share of the money where men and women compete for the same job.

[left that other site]

How about easing working burdens on FAMILY Women?

[MV=PY]

"The Obama administration wants more women to work outside the home..."

I stopped right there.

Who cares what they "want?"

Leave us alone!

[Opinionated Blowhard]

Hell. Let’s just give mothers 2 years off with pay and dad 2 or 3 months a year with pay to help. That would ease the burden. And mandatory minimum wage of 30 per hour now that they have kids to feed.

[txrefugee]

How about cutting all Middle Class families’ taxes in half, so that working women don’t have to work to pay their families’ taxes? In the ‘50s, mothers could stay home and tend to their children and home because families could get along nicely on the father’s paycheck.

Then this rapacious government started hogging the families’ resources, forcing mothers to work, and our children have suffered for it. No one can “have it all” except the greedy government, of course. They can never do with less

[bgill]

I seem to remember his relieving the “burden” would be that they never become mothers.

[dforest]

He already did that by pushing abortion. You know, don’t burden those gals with a baby.

I can fix this better than Obama, keep it in yer pants.

[dalereed]

If they want to work accept the burden totally or quit!

Time off for family it total bull crap.

I don’t get time off to run a business and i don’t give anyone time off from work, male or female.