Link: "Child Care Reforms That Will Make America Great Again" Fact Sheet from donaldjtrump.com
Wednesday thoughts on the current political debate and climate. Please excuse my Marxist/Feminist theorizing in advance. And conspiracy theories. But, with Trump's proposed platform to "guarantee" mothers receive what he calls "paid maternity leave", while using the unemployment system to fund it, several alarms have gone off.
In order for one to collect unemployment, they must be unemployed. Unless he were to legislate a law that makes it illegal for employers not to hire back the employee, then this seems to be a backhanded way to undermine the women's civil rights movement even further. It would likely keep them out of the workforce, by creating more obstacles and giving employers more rights, not the working mothers, the opposite of his proposal. If there is no protection for women to be hired back, then the law already promised to new moms to legally take time off after giving birth would become worthless. This is
Also, as the wife of a former 99er, the bottom line is unemployment insurance checks usually take at least a month to arrive. It is also about 1/2 of what you were making. So, by the time new mom and her 6 weeks is up, she would have to re-certify for unemployment for the 2 weeks prior and may have not received anything at all- if so 1 meager payment. In Illinois for instance, every 2 weeks you call into an automated system and are re-approved if circumstances haven't changed. Then, if you are lucky another 2 week check will arrive- eventually. This doesn't count as "Paid Maternity Leave" when it's a small fraction of your income and you may lose your job permanently. Donald Trump is trying to sell a false promise, using the words "paid maternity leave" as propaganda to attract votes from women and the left.
So Trump's real plan I theorize is to get rid of federally mandated maternity leave, and make new moms unemployed with no income and no safety nets. Sort of a punishment for having a child? Or I'm just judging him as I would any other Republican that touts a proposal to help people using tax dollars? It is usually a political show to eventually take from the group they claim to have a plan to assist! And especially I am weary of any proposal specifically regarding women: as theirs is a history of archaic regressive laws and discrimination against women. Economically, cash strapped states would carry the burden of paying for the program unless there was a federally mandated increase in spending for UI. And Republicans hate funding the current social service programs and safety nets already in place.
I welcome any compliments or dissonance to my above piece. I appreciate differences of opinions and opposing points of view, as long as they are not personally insulting. I am enlightened by them and the search for "why" there are polar ends of a political spectrum give me more to learn. My opinions are based on facts. They are well thought out after researching- they are not based on word of mouth or political propaganda from either candidate. Soon, I will be covering the monstrosity of #DonateGate. The theories of white collar crime and deviance further illustrate and predict what's to come.
Other critics of Trump's Child Care Plan:
@cnn @deray @nytimes @WSJ #Childcare savings accounts for the #impoverished to "invest" in. 😂 #Trump pic.twitter.com/cX1T3uvbt2— Angie Staft (@stimpytoo) September 14, 2016
Other critics of Trump's Child Care Plan:
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