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

Fascist crabs in a barrel.

I worked for the federal government in Canada. When my wife was pregnant I went to my director and said, "I would like to take a couple of weeks or maybe a month off to help my wife after she has the baby." He asked, "What are you entitled to under the collective bargaining agreement?" I said, "The parents can share 9 months of parental leave but she doesn't work so that means I can take up to 9 months." he replied, "Then take the 9 months. It wasn't available when my wife had kids but I would love to have taken it. Take every day you're entitled to." So I did, once for each of my two kids. It wasn't a fucking summer vacation.

The fucking rich old white men are gaslighting you. The rest of the world has parental leave.

Vote better.

- Those shills really need to ask themselves: "Why do the policies I support not stand up on their own and need me to astroturf any dissenting opinions".
  They won't obviously, as conservative policy doesn't benefit anyone but the mega wealthy. It would be nice though.
- The problem is that a lot of non-shill people have bought into that line of thinking.

Considering both state and federal Congresses take a third of the year off themselves, this just further shows that Republicans are absolute trash.

Even if it was summer break for adults, which it isn’t, what’s the issue?!

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've already voted against dozens of good ideas, across the board, like more mental health in schools. You know, that thing they claim is more important than gun control, they still don't want to do anything about it.
  If anyone votes for the GOP, they're either painfully stupid to the point where they should be in a mental hospital, or evil enough they should be removed from polite society. There is NO reason these goons should have ANY power, yet here we are...
They do it all over Europe. So clearly it would never work, for insert dumbass probably racist reason here.

GOP needs to be kicked off their corporate welfare for life.

Fun fact: Congress is only in session an average of 146 days per year. Let’s talk about who gets a longer “summer break.”

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.

remind me again how much vacation congress gets?

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.
- damn shame how we done them
- Whatever you do don’t link a compilation video of all the members of congress sleeping on the job. That would be hugely inappropriate and counter to the message they would prefer get sent out.

Do they think that birthing & taking care of a newborn is like "summer break"???

For the billionth time: get fucked, GOP.

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

Do they not have children?

They usually eat them upon birth. There's farm to table for restaurants and vag to devils gut with politicians.
They do. They just don't actually take part in raising them.
Do they have them? Technically yes. Did they raise them? Doubt it

Ngl summer break for adults sounds amazing; that's pretty good marketing for it

Yeah, I'll take one of those please.
seeing all of f1 take august off is a privilege im too american to understand.

What the hell is wrong with a summer break for adults? Presumably if the children want to summer break the adults also have to have a summer break if only to supervise the children.

What are these idiots expect things going to happen here.

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"

They'll force you to have the kid, then tell ya to fuck off.

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.
- It’s not what they force you to do, it’s who they can force to do whatever, because conservatism’s just dressed up worship of established hierarchies.

summer break for adults

...AND?

Don't threaten me with a good time

How pro-life of them.

Party of “FaMiLY VaLUeS” my ass

Costs are already rising and wages are abysmall but at least 15 weeks paid leave would let new parents have bonding time with their newborn or spend the last few days with a loved one as they die. At least it would be a little sliver lining in a black and grey world.

They don't want a health society. If we are happy and fulfilled then we aren't as easily manipulated.

Republicans: Complain about regulation and red tape.

Democrats: Propose bill getting rid of regulations and red tape surrounding farmers converting to clean energy production.

Republicans: "No, not like that!"

That sounds horrible

Summer break for adults? Sign me up!!!

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.

Why not indeed

Is it just me or am I hearing about Whitmer a lot? She seems to come up often for someone not currently running for president.

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.

But it's just summer break for adults

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'summer break for adults'

Smells like a Frank Luntz phrase.

I don't have kids, but AFAIK, it's not a fucking picnic Summer party taking care of a baby. They literally cannot do anything for themselves and are entirely reliant on their parents.

And even if it were, so? So what? Why can't adults have breaks too? You know damn well these fascist fucks take breaks all the fucking time. They just don't want anyone else to have what they have because they're scumbag fuckwad assholes who don't give a flying fuck about anyone but themselves. If it doesn't directly and personally benefit them, it shouldn't be done, according to them.