Paternity Leave

Last-12-Exit

Boomer needs to take his foot out of his mouth and his head out if his ass.

brianlux

unsung said:

backseatLover12 said:

unsung said:

http://www.firstcoastnews.com/story/sports/mlb/2014/04/03/boomer-esiason-rips-mets-infielder-paternity-leave/7248353/

My company allows a father to take two weeks upon the birth of a child. Boomer Esiason opened his mouth, and IMO made inself look like an idiot. Fathers should have equal, or at least some time off for this event.

But that would be SOCIALISM!!!

Laughing aside, if you feel that fathers should have some time off for this event, then perhaps look at things not from a political point of view, as you usually do, and look at things from a human point of view. The thing about you, unsung, is that you are such a strict right sided party player, that it is difficult to read anything you write any other way. This is a start. Good for you.

I don't know how many more times I need to say it, but you are fairly new here so I won't hold it against you. I used to be a Democrat, I have various reasons why I no longer am, gun control and their support for illegal aliens were the two main reasons I left. However, I have done enough research in that there are really two parties in our political system, but they are not Democrats and Republicans, they are Libertarians and Authoritarians.

See I don't want some general (federal) government lackey telling me what I can or cannot do when I am doing no harm. It is none of their business. Unfortunately most of them, from BOTH sides, think that they have that right. I have little use for them beyond what is expressly authorized by Art 1 Section VIII of the Constitution, those are their enumerated powers what they are allowed to do, anything else was supposed to be left up to the States.

So while I am not for the demise of the general government, I am for a drastic downsizing in line of what the Constitution authorizes them to do.

I am a Constitutionalist/Libertarian primarily, certainly anti-Authoritarian. I'm actually left on most social issues, mostly because it keeps govt out of them. I'll never beg for my rights, and no government can grant them.

Well, very frustrating, Unsung. You make some good points and then go bashing government employees by calling them as "some general (federal) government lackey". I worked for the U.S. government twice in my life. Most of the people I worked with were just plain old ordinary folks- some better than others- but a lot of them were fine people. I had a close friends several years ago who worked for the feds and he often got ticked off at people bad mouthing the government. He would say, "These people don't know what their talking about. The government is mostly just folks."

lukin2006

In Canada here I believe it's 12 months and can be split between both spouses to equal 12 months if your going on unemployment insure ... unless its changed.

polaris_x

this the daniel murphy thing? ... absurd ... 2 games in a 162 game season ... birth of your child ... it's actually negotiated into the CBA ... really a non-issue ... unless you're an asshole ...