America needs to better deal with the selfish and cruel within it.
This isn’t a meme, do it.
M - Mandatory
I - Indefinite
T - Term
C - Coverage
H - (for) Hospitalization
The MITCH act is a guarantee for your employment, salary and relief from any required government service/appearance, for the duration of time required for you to fully heal and recover from injury/illness, in home or medical facility, while under the active care of a licensed physician.
P.s. And since we are requiring that doctor as well, we’re going to need to just offer universal healthcare for all as an add on, m’kay.
Democrats will call this a fringe idea even though European countries already do it. The overton window has shifted; we consider far-right policy (like building a wall across the border) but we can’t afford universal healthcare and parental leave.
The overton window has shifted
Hardly on it’s own.
A ton of money goes into telling Americans that they can’t afford vacation or sick leave. Even as a ton more goes into telling us that AI will be replacing our jobs momentarily.
Which is inself so fucking absurd. Can you imagine spending money to convince other people to work harder? Like, as a concept to itself it’s so absurd.
Yeah the billionaires are working overtime. Probably easy to do when you have more money than some countries.
edit: I don’t mean they literally are working hard. I mean they stand against worker’s rights.
They work “overtime” because they log every meal as working and having an idea at 2am, while trying to ignore the ghosts of hell screaming at them, demanding they repent, as overtime.
Well… someone on their payroll is working overtime
Mandatory Insurance for Time-off, Caregiving, and Health (MITCH) Act
You should work on politics :D
Also, if you’re missing from work for months as an elected official it should automatically trigger a special election to replace you. If I get fired for not showing up, they should too.
Yeah and we’d get fired for a “No call, no show” like next day.
Lmao, as if they’d wait a day. I’ve seen multiple people get fired for “No call, no show” that same dag when management forgot they gave them the day off
I’ve seen the opposite. Hiring is such a nightmare that some managers will turn a blind eye for days - even weeks - if the employee isn’t critical and the hiring process is sufficiently bureaucratic.
I remember hearing an employer begging people to come in, because he’d been saddled with flakey teenagers who weren’t paid enough to give a shit one way or another.
If I get fired for not showing up
Technically, FMLA is supposed to prevent this from happening. You’d go on disability if you were out for months. But your employer couldn’t fire you without opening themselves up to Wrongful Termination.
Yes.
Unfortunately, conservatives believe in hierarchy. There are different rules for different people and, to them, that’s good, right, and natural.
They don’t see it as a contradiction because to them it is not. Mitch gets time off because he’s special and deserves it.
Without cracking that world view, progress will be very limited.
You crack that worldview by making them the losers in it. So if you work with a conservative, you make sure they don’t get their days off. You make sure that every single bad thing they do they need to count for or they get fired. This is really easy. The problem is is that people on our side have all this empathy for assholes.
That might work, but having just read “Dying of Whiteness” I worry it wouldn’t. There are people who would literally rather die than upset the hierarchy. They know their place in it. They will do their duty.
This is what people don’t get.
Republicans love being stepped on because those doing the stepping are rich and therefore smarter and therefore in a higher social bracket and therefore allowed to do whatever they want. They only care when they specifically are the ones in the crosshairs. No amount of empathy politics or fairness matter, because they “earned” their right to be an asshole (by cheating and exploiting labor, but they arent ready for that conversation)
I remember a video from (I think) the alt right playbook series, where he remarked on how this kind of hierarchy is self similar at different levels. They get stepped on but they also get to step on the people below them. That’s part of why they don’t like things that help people they see as lesser. They need to stay down so they can be stepped on!
therefore…
… they don’t mind this politician getting benefits that they don’t have
Unfortunately, conservatives believe in hierarchy.
indeed, same everywhere, eg wages, some C suite being paid $50Mil is not a problem, they deserve it after all, a raise in the minimum wage ? heresy!
They wouldn’t be conservatives if they were progressive
burn mitches house, congress, senate, white house
burn it all
fuck this government
Maybe don’t type this into a public platform.
this wont be the first list im on
I would bet this person is unfortunately on a few lists now. Free speech, get you on a list these days and eventually that list will be their next targets.
I’m sure his dear colleagues in the senate have been donating their sick days to him.
That reeks of socialism
Hey. It’s the kid that survived a school shooting and has worked to make our nation better ever since, even after knuckledragger Marjorie “Neanderthal” Greene stalked and harassed him in public.
They don’t have the balls to do that. But it would be hilarious.
A really good idea to build upon this is to set the amount of paid time off to same amount of time to who over has the most absentism in Congress.
Your local representative hasn’t shown up to vote in four months. Now, everyone in America gets four months of paid time.
I’d love to see the Twatter replies.
And pay. And perks. And retirement.
I’m for better paid leave. But do companies pay it or is there a national fund? Because as someone who runs a very small nonprofit organization that feeds our community with a handful of employees, if three of them went out on paid leave and I had to pay them plus temporary replacements long term, we would go under. There’s a reason we don’t have more employees. We paid two people on long term leave last year for good reason, and we lost 65% of our savings.
In a better country, your non-profit wouldn’t need to exist because it was a government service.
We feed people with no strings attached. There are a million places where people who qualify can get help. But the guy who is working but he just had to replace his HVAC and has no money left, or maybe the lady whose transmission just went out and she has no money for food but doesn’t qualify for assistance - we help a lot of those people too. And we help people who would qualify for government aid, but we still don’t ask. We also serve community meals regularly and lots of people come from all income brackets. Most of the wealthier people who come are supporters.
And that’s wonderful. But you should all be government employees with access to full benefits. People shouldn’t have to worry about proving they qualify for the right to have access to food.
Food, shelter, healthcare, and clean water are human rights that should be guaranteed to anyone regardless of income, citizenship, criminal background, or anything else.
But do companies pay it or is there a national fund?
Listen, I agree that people need time to have lunch and take shits.
But why are businesses forced to pay for these hours of idle labor? Shouldn’t we have the government assume the cost they’re imposing on private industry?
We should be privatizing the profits. We need socialize the losses. That’s the only way a business can actually function profitably.
someone who runs a very small nonprofit organization that feeds our community with a handful of employees
Should definitely be keeping a staffer with influenza on site, making food for other people.
Whatever works for Europe, let’s do that.
Eh, I’ve lived there a couple of times. They don’t have everything figured out.
That is true, but the United States is particularly bad on this issue. I would trade for the German or French paternity leave and healthcare systems in a heartbeat.
