Plus side: Women and men get paid the same for the same job. Good. Because I like money.
Down side:
1. This is like affirmative action. The man might actually be totally better at doing the job than the woman is, but they still get paid equal because they have the same position.
2. Qualifications, qualifications, qualifications. Pay should be based on qualifications and performance. Not on gender, race, religion, hair color, mustache or no mustache, long hair or short hair, big nose or little nose, different accent or same accent, need I go on?
When will people just accept that they might get paid less or not get into college because they just aren’t good enough and qualified enough and deserving enough?
Which brings me to numero threeo.
3. Because of this new legislation, employees may be able to see what their coworkers are making and sue if someone in the same position makes more than them. Because the guy with two masters and 25 years of experience shouldn’t be paid more than the guy with 18 years of experience and one masters.
Btw, it was on the news at 10 tonight on Fox Charlotte. So look it up if you want to see the article/video.
timeandmotion asked: PP provides the same service as the HD at a lower cost for low-income families on a sliding scale, HD doesn't. Also, PP is, more or less, a specific clinic. It's a family planning clinic. HD is your standard, well, HD. That's why it gets funding rather than merging the two organization. But honestly, I'm sure there is much more to it than what you or I are saying and I suggest looking into it more!
Okie doke. Now I don’t know what a sliding scale means, but from my experience with the people I know (because I have friends who have used the HD and I went with them), STD testing is free, BC is free, morning after is free, condoms are in a basket for free.
So it doesn’t make sense to me to have both of these organizations funded by the government when they do the same things.
I say this because although PP was originally started for the purpose of family planning and reproductive issues, currently they are very very very very very very very adamant about saying they are more than abortions and birth control and that they provide life saving cancer screenings and health tests and so on.
So pretty much PP is proving my point that they do the same things as the HD.
The actual breastfeeding: who the fuck cares? If you gotta pump/feed, then you have to do so. I hear it starts to hurt badly if you hold it in. So if you’re at work at the base doing some logistics work and you feel the need to pump coming on, go for it. If you’re out with your kid and you happen to be wearing your uniform, do it.
Here’s why I think it’s a problem.
They had professional pictures done. (http://moms.today.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/05/30/11955844-military-mom-proud-of-breast-feeding-in-uniform-despite-criticism?lite&ocid=ansmsnbc11)
sigh.
I know it’s natural thing that needs to be done. But I find that having professional pictures of it being done, especially to make a social/political point, is unnecessary. You don’t need to go around flaunting it.
You don’t have to be ashamed of breastfeeding and have to hide it, but you don’t need to use it to make a statement. Do it, but be discreet about it.
But all in all, I’m really sick of this whole breastfeeding thing and having it all over magazines and having pictures taken of it. Do it, do it respectfully so that doesn’t offend anyone (and when I say anyone I exclude those psychotic people who get offended by everything, even that one flower in their garden that blooms a week late). And everyone should just let women do it and not make a big deal out of it.
If women are respectful by being discreet about it and people don’t stare and grimace and make rude comments, then everyone wins and we don’t need to be debating about it and throwing it all over the news and magazine covers.
Most people were breastfed anyways so they shouldn’t be complaining when some mother is doing it. But if the mother is doing it in public, a blanket cover up thing would be nice.
But no one should being taking pictures to make a statement.
But whatever.
Of course I don’t like abortions.
But that’s not the reason I think PP shouldn’t get any government money. I don’t think the government should support any organizations that give abortions, even if government money doesn’t go to the abortions themselves. But, I think they should be defunded because of financial reasons.
PP has like $1 bil in income/budget. About $500 million comes from the government.
But, the government is also funding this nifty little place called the health department.
PP and the HD both provide the same services. Except abortion but that doesn’t matter because government money is not going to abortions which means ignore abortion and PP and HD provide the same exact services.
So here’s my problem, why is the government spending money on two identical organizations? Especially during this economic climate?
That doesn’t make sense to me.
