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Ivanka Trump champions paid family leave policy—and calls for bipartisan support
Motherly ^ | July 11, 2018 | Heather Marcoux

Posted on 07/11/2018 3:45:50 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

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To: 2ndDivisionVet

You aren’t President, you hot babe you!


21 posted on 07/11/2018 4:43:24 PM PDT by youngidiot (God will bless you for doing what you ought to be doing any damned way. He's amazing.)
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To: BenLurkin

THANK YOU !!!

As a life long bookkeeper/accounting person who has been self-employed since 1980, the small businesses that I have done work for could NEVER afford to have such a leave policy.

You want to have a family ??? FINE-—do that.

However, do NOT expect a business & the owner & shareholders to subsidize your family planning & execution.


22 posted on 07/11/2018 4:52:19 PM PDT by ridesthemiles
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“Studies show that paid leave can reduce infant mortality, increase breastfeeding rates, can improve maternal mental health and strengthen the connection between fathers and babies.”

EMPIRICAL evidence shows that when the mommy stays home to raise the kids (instead some paid stranger) and daddy brings home the bacon, it yields even better results than your ‘study’.

Nice try, but we’re in the process of making America great again, not socialist again.


23 posted on 07/11/2018 4:59:03 PM PDT by MichaelCorleone (Jesus Christ is not a religion. He's the Truth.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Ivanka, sit down and shut up. I did not vote for you.


24 posted on 07/11/2018 5:00:34 PM PDT by Bigg Red (The USA news industry, the MSM-13, takes a machete to the truth. {h/t TigersEye})
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To: ASOC

First mention of this I thought was a cheap pandering ploy to gain a few young liberal votes for Trump.

Second time seems like conflict between a father and his daughter who used to be friends with Chelsea (pardon me while I spit). Wobbly political values from a younger person, based on feelings and moods. A plastic straw up a turtle’s nose was on a viral video causing leftists to demand straws be banned! Not a joke, it was stated in an NPR online story today.

I won’t vote for Ivanka except to keep Chelsea out of the White House (coming soon). Back to lesser of two evils.


25 posted on 07/11/2018 5:00:57 PM PDT by frank ballenger (End non-citizen voting ,vote fraud & leftist media news censorship or we're finished.)
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To: Rome2000

If a business wants to give employees off for this sort of thing that is one thing, but the government has no business requiring such.


26 posted on 07/11/2018 5:03:47 PM PDT by Bigg Red (The USA news industry, the MSM-13, takes a machete to the truth. {h/t TigersEye})
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To: ridesthemiles

...do NOT expect a business & the owner & shareholders to subsidize your family planning & execution.

(((
Exactly.


27 posted on 07/11/2018 5:05:41 PM PDT by Bigg Red (The USA news industry, the MSM-13, takes a machete to the truth. {h/t TigersEye})
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To: MichaelCorleone

EMPIRICAL evidence shows that when the mommy stays home to raise the kids (instead some paid stranger) and daddy brings home the bacon, it yields even better results than your ‘study’.

>>>
Hear! Hear!


28 posted on 07/11/2018 5:06:23 PM PDT by Bigg Red (The USA news industry, the MSM-13, takes a machete to the truth. {h/t TigersEye})
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29 posted on 07/11/2018 5:12:32 PM PDT by 4Liberty (illegal immigration is a "process" crime too....)
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To: Tax-chick

I have seen some ignorant comments on the Freep over the years but this takes the cake. This isn’t a new entitlement. This is allowing someone to access future benefits in exchange for deferred benefits near the time of retirement. This is a great concept.


30 posted on 07/11/2018 5:56:35 PM PDT by ReleaseTheHounds ("The problem with Socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money." M. Thatcher)
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To: ReleaseTheHounds

It’s an entitlement unless it has a “claw-back” provision. There’s no way of knowing, today, what a person’s future employment will be. I’m interested in the idea of a Social Security withdrawal for new parents, but individuals might not go back to work. Or, she might never return to paid, Social Security taxable, work.


31 posted on 07/11/2018 6:02:37 PM PDT by Tax-chick (Fill in my standard rant.)
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To: ReleaseTheHounds

Pardon, I got myself garbled. My second point was that the Social Security system could collapse completely before a person who pre-drew reached retirement age.

Entitlement upon Entitlements that might never eventuate ...

Maybe we should go all private-pay or private charity.


32 posted on 07/11/2018 6:06:36 PM PDT by Tax-chick (Fill in my standard rant.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I am a fan of paid family leave - as a choice of the employer. For government to take the private property of the employer for this purpose and compel a free person to expend his wealth in that manner is an immoral and unconscionable overreach.


33 posted on 07/11/2018 6:10:25 PM PDT by Pollster1 ("Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed")
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“... as a choice of the employer.”

Exactly.


34 posted on 07/11/2018 6:58:56 PM PDT by Theo (FReeping since 1998 ... drain the swamp.)
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PFL is ridiculous. And those that take advantage of it often look forward to returning to work to escape the demanding newborn.

On the upside, it may encourage professionals to have more kids which helps the genepool and future tax revenue.

Regardless, this shouldn’t be a federal issue.


35 posted on 07/11/2018 10:43:36 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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