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[quote=Anonymous]Wow, this thread is kind of ugly.

It's a sad thread, because, ultimately, I think it is about priorities and the anger around perceived priorities.

Parents want policies that are favorable to their expectations and are outraged and want more generous leave policies, with pay, and want the country as a whole to support them because, perhaps, they see having children as some superior pursuit.

Other workers have other priorities. A few days ago, someone posted about their husband with a chronic illness who couldn't be at work and overwhelmingly, posters told him that he deserved to be fired. To be fair, I don't have anything to say about that particular situation...I'm not the OP and I have no idea what the circumstances were....but it brought something interesting up. Surely, if I didn't know the details, no one else did. Yet, nearly everyone on the thread thought he should be fired.

Dueling priorities. Mothers want generous leave. People with chronic illnesses want generous leave. But there doesn't seem to be any common ground...no joint effort to address the real issue, which is the cognitive dissonance between wanting low taxes and no government until we actually need something and then wanting to kill each other for the legitimacy of our need.

Crazy.[/quote]

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