Last night, Paul Ryan announced that he'd run for Speaker of the House if his Republican colleagues met a list of demands. Among them: insisting that time Ryan spends with his family not be sacrificed.
Ryan, whose wife and three young children reside in Janesville, Wisconsin, flies home for a visit every weekend. That's nice. If only he believed that other Americans deserved the same...
...Ryan's GOP caucus blocked President Obama's attempt to mandate paid parental leave in both the public and private sectors here in the US. We're one of only three countries in the world that doesn't guarantee new parents paid time off from work to care for their offspring.
And we certainly don't have any enshrined rules that guarantee fathers time away from work to spend with their 10-, 12-, and 13-year-old children. Perhaps if Paul Ryan hadn't spent much of his political career fighting laws that promote realistic work-life balance for parents of all socioeconomic levels, asking for family time would make him look more like a hero and less like a hypocrite."
eye'm thynkin': Couldn't have said it better myself. Just more Republican IGM-YOYO (I've Got Mine-You're On Your Own.)
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