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Johonny

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Sun Aug 9, 2015, 06:06 PM Aug 2015

Meanwhile the "sane" GOP candidates Carly Fiorina hate on women too. [View all]

http://www.cnn.com/2015/08/09/politics/carly-fiorina-paid-maternity-leave/

"I'm not saying I oppose paid maternity leave. What I'm saying is I oppose the federal government mandating paid maternity leave to every company out there," Fiorina. "I don't think it's the role of government to dictate to the private sector how to manage their businesses, especially when it's pretty clear that the private sector, like Netflix, like the example that you just gave, is doing the right thing because they know it helps them attract the right talent," Fiorina said.

The government isn't stepping into business decisions, it is stepping into life decisions and events of American citizens. Unless Fiorina thinks Netflix main business is the impregnation of women that work there? Mandating maternity leave isn't punishing businesses for doing the wrong thing, it is creating a society that does the right moral thing that her party always claims they want-to value the lives of women and children. This isn't about business, this is about our society which is why the government we elect should set up a maternity leave system that works for its citizens and protects their jobs while undergoing one of the fundamental moments in life. What is Carly planning? Apparently to wait it out and see if the good companies do it if it is the right thing to do for them. To follow her lack of logic on this: If this was 1850 she'd be running on praising a few companies that don't use slave labor, and arguing on waiting out the slavery issue as a while and seeing if ending it works for every business situation. Classy. All part of her new wave feminism.

You know what most progressive societies are doing: including maternity leave as a part of their health care system. Fiorina on single payer health care:


We're dumping more and more people into Medicaid. Medicaid is a program that fewer and fewer doctors will accept patients from. That isn't helping anyone with cancer, I can assure you.

Nice. The old tired lives on medicare. Yes, medicare isn't helping anyone that goes to her yacht club so it doesn't work. Slowly they learn that Donald just says what the other candidates think, but all the GOP candidates hate women in their own special ways.
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