Why does maternity leave count as disability?  I would think disability shouldn't be a voluntary decision.    How about not having children you can't afford to support?  Or is that just ridiculous in this day and age.

I wonder if they add this pay into the calculations when they tell us how much less women are paid than men.    Actually, I'm sure they don't.    So maybe when we start comparing how much a man earns compared to a woman, we should consider time actually worked.   This is not a popular opinion, I'm sure, so flame away. ...more

Gimme Gimme Gimme.  The nerve of Disney hiring all those people and paying them at the rate and benefit they all agreed to.     Reading all these posters who make Disney and Darden out to be the bad guys, it's pretty easy to understand how the US became less and less educated and more and more dependant and classless. ...more

Yes this sick time law is a great idea.  if you want to increase unemployment and drive prices up.   This is just like Obamacare.   I "deserve" something, so I will legislate it for myself.     Don't bother thinking about repercussions.     Putting smaller business out of business because they can't afford it isn't rea...more

I think the freedom from discrimination fought for was all about things people have no CHOICE about.    First race.  More recently, sexual orientation, which is finally getting through to people as something innate, not a choice.   Same with transgender for the most part.  Peopl feel like they are born in the wrong bod...more

To me it matters most in food service positions.    It's just unappetizing to be looking at facial piercings and inked faces and arms.   It just LOOKS unclean even if it's not, and at work, perception is very important.  I don't like the look of it anywhere, but I'm not going to not shop in a store, or worry about tatt...more

There's nothing stopping him from paying his "fair share" if he wants to.  Oh, wait.  There is.  He's only interested in spending other people's money and getting reelected.

I hope this guy doesn't get paid for this political announcement.

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