With workers getting ten weeks of paid vacation annually under the "Paid Family Leave" scheme, additional dues paying union members will be needed to do the work vacationing employees are not performing (not that they do much "work" anyway).

Under my count, 10 weeks a year into 52 weeks means that state "worker" productivity is down 19 percent.  While this can be seen by many as a good thing, Carla will use this as an excuse to demand a 19 percent larger payroll.  And more union members means more money in Carla's pocket.  It's that simple.

Like everything else in Trenton, this is about how much taxpayers money insiders can stuff into their own pockets. 

The family leave program is still another tax that will be appropriated by the politicians in this state for their own agenda.  It will lead to larger government when we have to be cutting the amount of it.   

"The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything."
                --Theodore Roosevelt--

I think the best way to get this passed is to allow any employee to opt out if they want.  Don't force this tax down people's throats. If they want the coverage, they should opt in.  Simply put, make this voluntary.

Here they are again! The anti-family , anti-american crowd is coming out and declaring the end of the world is near!

They are once again trying to undermine the family unit by putting the almighty dollar ahead of everything.

This bill can only promote the family unit and will not hurt business. However the anti-family business people want to control even your family life.

I am glad that Carla Katz is fighting for this bill. It is unfortunate that none of her other CWA presidents are joining in.

It is time to beat back Kirschner and his anti-family, greedy crowd and get this bill passed!

Rhetoric :"Promote the family unit" ?   Truth: Every year low-lifes will take advantage of this.  30 years ago we didn't need this because families had someone who didn't need to work full time because government was smaller and not taking so much of our money for duck decoy museums.  I don't believe it will not cost, plus the state's credit card is maxed.  

The unpatriotic business community that has followed Kirschner in his quest to make employees decide between their job or their sick child or spouse represent what is wrong with praying at the altar of the      " sacred dollar".

These people have lost sight of what made America great. Greed did not make America great it was the devotion to family that has made us a great nation.

Kirschner and the anti-family business community that follows him are now telling you that the dollar is more important than your children or your spouse.

SHAME, SHAME,SHAME ON THESE UNPATRIOTIC PEOPLE! 

...common human decency?

Are you rich and thereby not vulnerable to the need for paid leave?

Are you an employer who begrudges workers having lives?

I bet you have disablilty insurance (that's if you're not already very wealthy) that will cover you if you get sick and need time off.  (PS If you don't and can afford it; buy it.....it's a neccessity these days; If only to protect ones estate.)

You quote Teddy Roosevelt; did you know that he was a progressive Republican who was pro environmental conservation and against big business's corrupting influence on government? I bet old Teddy would be siding with ordinary human beings over the corporations on this one!

The opponents of paid family leave come across as such a meanspirited lot; I wonder what it is about caring for other (besides themselves) people that they don't/won't/can't get?

From Frederick Douglass

If there is no struggle there is no progress......Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.

Teddy knew a new tax in any shape or form.  This is nothing more than another government form of taking honest citizens money and giving it out as they please, to ones who please them.  This bill has nothing to do with family values, but it does have everything to do with socialist values.

This bill has to be buried now.

"The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything."
                --Theodore Roosevelt--

The Family Leave bill states clearly that is for only six weeks. Some of the wing-nuts here had better put back their old selfish business owners script and get a new one, it’s wearing thin. What dumb analogies and statements they make. I don’t believe a normal person would believe some of their slanted and warped view of the way things work, the average worker can see right through their false statements. Carla does not get a cut of anybodies pay, that’s just a selfish talking point of the selfish upper crust. Carla should be commended for fighting for the average guy and workers rights, she looks out for everybody’s best interests. And I’ll answer Arnie Saccnusson when he asks, "who is responsible for my life?" It’s all of those people who would be contributing to the Family Leave bill if someone in your family gets sick and you want to leave your job to be with them during that period of time. It’s not all about you, you, you Arnie..!! And the owner won’t have to pay for you to leave the job to be with a loved one. If both the employees and the owners can see the many benefits to this bill it will be a win & win for both sides when it passes. My applause to Carla for really explaining the bill and its many benefits correctly.

The people who are against this bill have no regard for the family unit and if you have no regard for the family unit then you have no regard for the principles that this country was founded on.

I suggest you take down your American flag and put it back up when you gain respect for it and what it stands for.

It is anti-family/anti-American to take the last dollar out of my pocket, away from my family and give it to someone else.   That other person may very well not need my dollar as much as I do.  Why should I be required to pay into any plan that dispurses money to others who may make more than I, or may be abusive of the plan, or didn't save money for a rainy day?  My dollar needs to stay in my family, for the needs of my family.

http://www.bluejersey.net/showDiary.do?diaryId=6736

click and learn!

Taxes will not be raised. The fund will be more than enough to support those in need .

Don't drink the Kool-Aid from the anti-family business sector. This bill is a quality of life, pro-family bill.

Those who oppose it are anti-family and anti-american values.

firstamend07 is personally attacking my family. My family that needs that dollar. Needs that dollar to help pay down the arrears owed to the town from '07 property taxes due. The survival of my family right now depends on keeping my dollar in my pocket. The survival of our family businesses NJ depends on keeping my dollar in my pocket.  The survival of our employees jobs depends on keeping the dollars in the businesses pockets.

Option for my family if we can't keep money in our pockets is to move two small businesses and one family out of NJ after our home of 30 years of hard work is seized by the tax police. After our businesses of 15 years are closed and our employees are turned out.

It's been another dollar here and another dollar there to the State. It has finally added up to so many dollars that we are in the hole big time. Now you want another dollar?

You just don't get it, and I fear you never will unless you wind up in the same boat.

You better go back and study math.  Your numbers don't add up.

"The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything."
                --Theodore Roosevelt--

Thank you for all you are doing to provide jobs for "hard working" citizens of New Jersey.  You are so right about the real family rights, that one should be able to use the money he or she earns to take care of "their" family, not some welfare leech.

"The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything."
                --Theodore Roosevelt--

At least we are not drinking your LSD laced kool aid!  The only quality of life or pro-family growth we will see is that of another corrupt politician.

Real AMERICANS oppose socialist taxes always!  

"The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything."
                --Theodore Roosevelt--

If you are aganst the sanctity of the  family and family values then you are not a real American,with real American values.

This country was made great because WE stood up against those who wanted to destroy the sanctity of the family.

To wave a flag in front of a home and then to promote anti-family values is just not right.

This is not a socialist bill, but being against family values sounds very similiar to the rhetoric heard by some dangerous dictators of the past.

Family=American values!   

Not liberal , not conservative, but AMERICAN! A real American will even defend the right of those who speak without thinking.

As a real American , with a respect for family values, I will respect your right to make such comments.

In case you did not know it President Roosevelt was a devout family man.

Progressive Family Values

by: Jay Lassiter

Sat Jan 26, 2008

If we don't rise up against the onslaught from the big business lobby, we will miss the opportunity to enact family medical leave here in New Jersey.

So far the campaign to allow workers to take up to 6 weeks off with half-pay to have a baby or care for a sick relative has been a tough slog.  The progressive side has been thoroughly out gunned by our richer more ruthless rivals.

SO I ask you Blue Jersey to call your reps and tell them how you feel.  Doesn't matter if you think they might vote for it so why bother.  This time it's important to go ahead and make the call, email, or fax.

After that send this video to every progressive you know in NJ and tell them to do the same.  Share it with your friends, networks, and newslists.  Put it on your blog or your website and try to help rally the

http://www.bluejersey.net/showDiary.do?diaryId=6736

Otherwise we miss the chance to enact the most pro-family, pro-worker legislation in a generation.   It's not about waiting for the next opportunity to make this happen.  It's been too long a wait already.

What I am saying is that your family and my family benefit from this Bill. No business will be hurt. Keeping the family unit strong in a time of crisis will benefit all of us. There are times when we do need to have the help of others. I hope your family  will never need that help . I hope the same for my family. BUT I WANT THE HELP TO BE THERE IF OUR FAMILIES NEED IT. 

This is a good , family oriented bill. I ask that you join us and support the bill.

PARTY STALWARTS

March 5, 2007 -- POLITICS makes strange bedfellows. We hear Gov. Jon Corzine's sexy ex, Carla Katz, has gotten cozy with Newark Mayor Cory Booker. A source tells us she was overheard boasting about Booker's considerable sex appeal at the bar at Pravda last month. "We are friends - you can say good friends," said Katz, union president of CWA 1034, which reps half the state workers in New Jersey. She told us that while she's been to Pravda, she wasn't telling tales out of school. Will she admit they've at least kissed? "I'm not going to talk about that," Katz laughed. We couldn't reach Booker's press rep.  

"The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything."
                --Theodore Roosevelt--

It seems that the real problem you have is when the truth comes out.  And you have the right to embarrass yourself with your choose of leaders to follow. 

"The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything."
                --Theodore Roosevelt--

 First amend, you should thank the founding fathers for the first amendment, but I am ashamed of how you use it as a name to promote a socialist agenda in which they saw  the greatest danger.

   I can't believe the one-sided crap you spew over and over again.

Most of the businesses in this state are small ones aside from a few big corporations, and not to mention the biggest and fastest growing employer, the state itself.

  Can you really post here and think that the money collected will not be squandered like every other tax and fund?  Look at the facts, and mark my words if this thing gets passed it will get out of control and there will be another tax, or bond, or loan, or whatever new scheme they can come up with to maintain it.

    You constantly call everyone that opposes this bill anti family and anti American...and then you chastise others for the comments they make by making further comments against them. What about their first amendment rights? 

  What about keeping government out of our lives? Maybe that is not a concern for you, but this is the road to socialism no matter what name or cloak it hides behind.

    Sure it would be nice to take time off and get paid for it, but not at someone elses cost.

  I would never rob my neighbor, and I don't expect the state to do it for me even if it is beneficial to me.

   Ask your representatives what plan they have, I am sure it is a sweet deal. Ask Carla what the union does for her members when the rep shows up in a new Cadillac, with a $500. suit and $200. shoes and tells the rank and file to strike....he still gets paid, they get screwed.

    First amend you really are an ass-wipe, the only thing that would make me happier is to call you that in person.
 

firstamend07, 

"You have chosen to side with  those who put their business before everything else in life."

My business is my job, and provides jobs for others.  It is not my responsibility that others, when they have children or an illness in the family, put their job above staying home with their family when they are in need.  It is anti-family on their part that they have chosen a life that does not take into consideration that family  needs always arise.

What I see as one of the large problems in today's society, is that too many believe that their responsibilities are the responsiblitities of society.

It is my belief that friends, neighbors, and family should be available and willing to help each other.  The government should not be responsible for each and every person who chooses a lifestyle that is anti-family.  And by the way, money should not have anything to do with each and every one of us living up to their own standards of family values.  Sometimes one does what is necessary to handle the immediate need and then has to recoup later.