Posted on 02/03/2018 6:51:13 AM PST by reaganaut1
It’s incredible to me that this could even be a question among people who call themselves conservative.
The rampant abuse that already exists for family medical leave is a clear sign that the same people will abuse this too. How many people are sitting at home, taking tax dollars now? It was 49 percent. Now I bet it is at least 51 percent. But, o they earned it, just ask them.
Because it shows you don’t really understand the implications of what’s being proposed, that’s why.
Encouraging people to become dependent and/or entitled is not compassion.
Spend some time in the real world - you might like it!.
Oh, I understand perfectly; I just don't agree.
I also know it's condescending SOBs who sign paychecks that have our country overrun with illegal aliens, and insist we can't do without them.
And don't try to hide behind the "encouraging dependence" canard. The proposed plan doesn't cost the business anything.
What it does test is if you have enough resilience in your organization to allow your employees to be people, and not parts. If the business you've built can't handle an occasional pregnancy or debilitating accident among your people without going to pieces, you had no business going into business in the first place.
No, what I object to is the contemptible "it's not the business's responsibility you got pregnant" attitude. Such people deserve what the communists would like to do to them.
And by the way, my family runs several businesses, but we determined long ago never to hire help unless we could make the job something they could live a life on; short of that, it's contractors.
No it’s a horrible idea—and we have liberal Manhattanite Ivanka responsible for Trump now pushing it.
Already we got a terrible childcare entitlement that will be soaked up by the rich with nannies.
Not good for the kiddos, not good for the country, evil for the already overburdened taxpayers.
And leave caring for an aging parent. And leave caring for the handicapped anyone. Yes, let’s redistribute it all!
I’ve got kids and I completely agree with you. I quit work at the time we started our family. I reasoned that I could either be an engineer or I could be a mother of young children but I could not do both at the same time and do either one well.
Stealing other people’s time and money to satisfy your own twisted view of ‘compassion’ is simply wrong.
Play Robin Hood on your own time. And with your own money.
Feel well.
Nobody is stealing anything. The funds are coming from ones own social security.
And if your business can't afford to allow for the normal impediments of life in the people you hire, it's just like a person who leverages every nickel they have to get the biggest house possible...you should loose it. You have no business involving other people in your self-centered success fantasies.
Play Robin Hood on your own time. And with your own money.
Get your analogies right. Robin Hood stole from the rich to give to the poor, making everyone a slave to HIM. What you're advocating is servitude for the sake of maximum organizational efficiency; how is that better than Robin Hood?
Are you one of those who thinks SS money is stored in a lockbox? Really?
The government cannot give to one American without taking away from another American. Do you think the government produces wealth?
That SS $$ comes from current tax revenue and/or is borrowed (issuing Treasure bill, notes, bonds), which is a claim on future tax revenue.
As it is Soc Sec is going broke (technically it already is broke).
You have an amazing lack of understanding of money and markets. And the Constitution.
Critical thinking is not your strong point.
Isn’t it time to go back to your family lemonade stand?
No, but you're obviously one of those supercilious know-it-alls who'd rather project cliches on opposing viewpoints, than actually consider someone might disagree with you for some reason other than stupidity.
As I said earlier, that is exactly the kind of "business man" that has us fighting off a foreign invasion of artificially cheap labor.
And while the government can't pay benefits without taking those funds from the public, the people who would benefit from this are ALREADY having funds expropriated for the benefit of others. Giving them back some of their own to expand their family is better for the country than using it to buy the votes of the retired.
Furthermore, despite whatever is being said about social security, do you really believe it's going away? Spare me your doctrinaire, chalkboard "understanding of money and markets," and learn a little something about realpolitik .
People like you have been getting their political butts handed to them since Reagan. It's only because we now have a President that's willing to deal with things as they are, rather than imposing inappropriately applied tenets of Austrian School Economics, that the country is picking up again, finally.
Are you still here?
I thought I told you to go back to your lemonade stand!
I've been here for twenty years, bub. I don't plan on going anywhere.
Further, that long experience has given me the ability to recognize posters so devoid of integrity they refuse to rebut, nor concede when they've lost an argument. So despite your feeble, inane attempt to belittle, I won't push your face in the dirt, anymore.
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