Republicans propose new parents rob their own Social Security savings to fund 'paid' family leave

Many Americans believe that early childcare is an important issue facing our country. Unlike most countries with electricity and running water, the U.S. is barbarically behind when it comes to the affordable quality options for our young children’s care. Besides the fact that childcare in the United States is all over the map in regards to quality, the costs have become equivalent of a year’s worth of public college. One of the biggest problems with income inequality and the resulting power inequality is that our country is a pretty hostile place for children to live. To this end, more liberal-minded folks have proposed childcare programs that would turn early childcare costs into an entitlement like Social Security or Medicare. The conservatives in our country don’t really have a plan to do much of anything besides deregulate our consumer and economic protections, while privatizing as much of the public services that are left, and of course cutting taxes for the wealthiest.

Enter Republican Senators Jodi Ernst and Mike Lee, from Iowa and Utah respectively. They’re trying to get out in front of true family friendly policies that are expected to materialize from the many new blue wave congressional representatives. Sens. Ernst and Lee have an interview coming out Wednesday on CBS This Morning. Why CBS This Morning? Probably because you definitely aren’t going to get called out on this idiotic set of statements pushed in the promotional video for tomorrow’s full broadcast.

The plan that these two craven idiots want to promote? Paying for your “paid family leave” by way of your social security savings! Then . . . you just work longer and retire later! That way, when your children have children of their own, you can maybe see them when you aren’t retired and still working full days! I feel like I hear a Harry Chapin song coming on.

Sen. Lee: I think that most people would look at this as an opportunity that they might otherwise not have.

Yes, with no other options, this would look like an opportunity you otherwise would not have. Then the hard hitting CBS This Morning question: “Why is the United States so far behind the rest of the industrialized world on this?”

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