{"id":136876,"date":"2018-08-04T16:59:15","date_gmt":"2018-08-04T22:59:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/08\/04\/the-gop-likes-paid-family-leave-to-help-tear-down-social-security.html"},"modified":"2018-09-05T19:18:43","modified_gmt":"2018-09-06T01:18:43","slug":"the-gop-likes-paid-family-leave-to-help-tear-down-social-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/08\/04\/the-gop-likes-paid-family-leave-to-help-tear-down-social-security.html","title":{"rendered":"The GOP likes paid family leave &#8230; to help tear down Social Security"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sure, you can take paid family leave under Marco Rubio&#39;s bill (as proposed \/ backed by First Lady Ivanka Trump). But you&#39;ll do so by pushing drawing on Social Security, and pushing back your eligibility to retire with Social Security by 3-6 months per child you had the nerve to have.<\/p>\n<p>(And, of course, it would make it look like more money is being sucked out of Social Security than ever before, giving the GOP ammo to replace the program with, I dunno, coupons for McDonalds and tax cuts for the rich.)<\/p>\n<p>Making America Great Again!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/ivanka-trump-family-leave-maternity-retirement-1056970'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/3K_-Y3JSfvED_THy0_jM9huQgS7RXUxDxHjdXLDvKLTr0gWRf5rJDa4K9GiUadqN9R7FrQjjaKOdVEiFCB_047RqkFER605uPiVC85zNY6_tJ0N1pUiWPb_InjJQ5p9vR5otUaVAN9TIbT3uDspuUwAP0XyUtUhUMS4L=w506-h910' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/ivanka-trump-family-leave-maternity-retirement-1056970'>Ivanka Trump-backed family leave plan would ask new parents to pick between retirement or maternity leave<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n&ldquo;This is a way for Senator Rubio and the Republican party to get credit for caring about women and families without truly investing in a way to address a major problem,&#8221; said Andrea Flynn, a fellow at The Roosevelt Institute.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/bCrqaFQGTH9'>Original Post<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sure, you can take paid family leave under Marco Rubio&#39;s bill (as proposed \/ backed by First Lady Ivanka Trump). But you&#39;ll do so by pushing drawing on Social Security, and pushing back your eligibility to retire with Social Security by 3-6 months per child you had the nerve to have. (And, of course, it &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/08\/04\/the-gop-likes-paid-family-leave-to-help-tear-down-social-security.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The GOP likes paid family leave &#8230; to help tear down Social Security&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,528,376,348],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-136876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-economic-justice","category-taxing-spending","category-women"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":51360,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/06\/03\/why-has-ranting-about-the-yellow-peril-become-pass-in-the-gop.html","url_meta":{"origin":136876,"position":0},"title":"Why has ranting about the Yellow Peril become pass&eacute; in the GOP?","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 3-Jun-15 10:16pm","format":false,"excerpt":"I fully agree that China presents a much greater geopolitical challenge to the US than Iran or ISIS do. 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