George W Bush opposes adoption!
According to today’s Washngton Post, the White House is threatening to veto a change in the Federal Employees Paid Parental Leave Act that would permit federal and congressional employees to receive four weeks of paid parental leave after birth, adoption, or taking in a foster a child.
The Congressional Budget Office estimates that the expanded benefits would cost $850 million between the second half of 2009 and 2013 — about $105 per federal employee per year. It’s “costly and unnecessary” according to Bush’s social welfare and family values brain. Unlike, say, the Iraq War, the War on Terror and TSA.
The bill passed the House 278 to 146 with 50 Republicans voting for and one Democrat voting against it. A companion bill is in the Senate.
RED ALERT:
NCFA’s Tom Terrific Atwood should pitch his tent on the White House lawn on this one. Unless this bill passes and is signed into law, thousands of newborns will remain unadopted–victms of the brutish anti-adoption Bush administration.
“thousands of newborns will remain unadopted–victms of the brutish anti-adoption Bush administration.”
This is too funny-ironic for words. I’ll bet he hears from his buddies at the Gladney homes.
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Breastfeeding is a disgusting throwback to the cave.
“Breastfeeding is a disgusting throwback to the cave”.
I’m sorry? I don’t understand what you mean Marley.
Oh and gale, if you happen by, do you have a blog? Cause I’d love to read it.
I mean that it’s uncivilized, that’s all. Women are not cows. It’s repulsive. It’s what attention mongers do. It’s touchy-feely.
Not every mother opts to breastfeed, not yesterday or today. I have had 4 kids, and never had a desire to breastfeed a one of them. Though even in adulthood at times, they can act like ‘titty babies’!!! They all did perfectly fine with a bottle. And so did I………
Moooooo. LOL. I think it comes down to whatever floats your boat. I breastfed my two raised children and found it convenient, healthy and fulfilling. I never felt uncivilized or bovine. But then, Marley, you’re not a big fan of the whole motherhood experience and that, m’love, is your right.
What I DO find disgusting is adopters taking drugs to lactate and sticking that strange/wrong udder in that poor adopted baby’s mouth.
We’ll have to agree to disagree on the breast-feeding thingy, Marl. Those things sure weren’t put there just to fill out a sweater. We be mammals. (heh heh…but I am sure you will find a way to rise above that, Kiddo! ;oD )
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Weelk it could be worse. Check out Milkmen. http://www.unassistedchildbirth.com/miscarticles/milkmen.html
It’s scarey who gets to walk around free in this world isn’t it?….
Unfuckingbelievable….never saw that link before, and I never want to see it again….
Now THAT is uncivilized! Urk!
If some man tried that me, he’d be out the door!
LoL Marley 🙂
How in the world did I ever reach a point where I can see reason in an act by the Bush administration?
This isn’t a rollback of employee benefits, it’s a proposed extension of benefits, one which would take us well beyond existing policy by paying for parenting leave. It’s a rare commodity in any other field; reasonable minds can disagree on whether it’s an appropriate thing to do in the present economy and with the existing bloat in the federal budget. (Yes, that bloat is largely George’s doing at the moment, but far from all of it is.)
I am one of three owners of a small business. All but two of our employees directly generate revenue. The absence of one employee for a month makes a significant difference in our gross and our continuing ability to make payroll. Our employees usually have accrued PTO in anticipation of birth and used it for that purpose. Those I know in government service have done the same. I see no compelling reason for this benefit at this time. But then, I think the adoption tax credit is a waste of money and poor policy, because it isn’t targeted at those areas in which it is needed. Maybe I’m becoming anti-adoption.
J.
What a dumb ass
face this joker has too bad his mother didn’t abort..she would have been better off and so would we have…
Maybe if we quit giving adopters the adopter welfare to adopt we could save a couple of billion…while Americans kids are in foster care and are overlooked why?
Because those womb fresh, foreign born are a bargain and no mother to come knocking on the adopter’s door.
And I am Anti Adoption!!!!!!
Gale
Baby Scoop Era 66
Motherhood serves an excuse for too much garbage in this society already. I say cut maternity leave and the whole bit totally for both natural and adoptive mothers. Give us single people a break for once in our lives. We don’t want to subsidize any of you. And I could care less how g*dd*mn important you think breast feeding is.
“Give us single people a break for once in our lives. We don’t want to subsidize any of you. And I could care less how g*dd*mn important you think breast feeding is.”
Thank you! And I didn’t write this!