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On 3/28/2017 8:02 AM, Ron Force wrote:<br>
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roman",times,serif;font-size:21px;line-height:1.58;letter-spacing:-0.003em;color:rgba(0,0,0,0.8)">On
Tuesday morning’s <em class="gmail-markup--em
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1,'salt' 1">Morning Joe</em>, host Mika Brzezinski
welcomed House Freedom Caucus member Raul Labrador (R-ID) to
discuss the failure of the Republican health care plan.
Labrador <a moz-do-not-send="true"
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0.1em;background-position:0px 1.07em">opposed Trumpcare</a> for
not cutting enough, so Brzezinski opened the interview by
asking him why he doesn’t support paid family leave. She was
astonished when he didn’t seem to care.</p>
<p name="2f97" id="gmail-2f97" class="gmail-graf gmail-graf--p
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roman",times,serif;font-size:21px;line-height:1.58;letter-spacing:-0.003em;color:rgba(0,0,0,0.8)">“It
should be up to the business,” Labrador explained. “I owned
a business for ten years. I paid for my — for the insurance
for the people that worked for me. I gave them leave
whenever they needed leave and I helped them out. It should
be up to the individual business person to decide that.”</p>
<p name="0973" id="gmail-0973" class="gmail-graf gmail-graf--p
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roman",times,serif;font-size:21px;line-height:1.58;letter-spacing:-0.003em;color:rgba(0,0,0,0.8)">When
Brzezinski pressed whether the leave was specifically <em
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style="font-feature-settings:'liga' 1,'salt' 1">family </em>leave,
Labrador tried (but failed) to avoid the question, admitting
he offered vacation and sick leave, but not a separate paid
family leave. “They have vacation, they had sick days, they
had a bunch of things,” he said. “Those things cost me money
and I did it willingly. I don’t think the government should
be forcing that. I know you want the government to force
more spending, but I don’t.”</p>
<p name="0688" id="gmail-0688" class="gmail-graf gmail-graf--p
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roman",times,serif;font-size:21px;line-height:1.58;letter-spacing:-0.003em;color:rgba(0,0,0,0.8)">Brzezinski
kept trying to find a way to see if Labrador was at all
concerned about families who need that kind of leave, but he
simply insisted that it wasn’t what he was there to talk
about...</p>
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Labrador appears to be from out-of-this-world. He has appeared here
without his interplanetary papers in order. He is working on behalf
of his alien corporate masters to keep earth-bound American humans
at quality-of-life disadvantages while allowing other planetary
foreigners to develop and maintain competitive advantages over the
American workforce and electorate. Not only is this not appropriate
immigration counseling for any American constituency, it is also bad
psychological, medical, and health care advocacy for the better
well-being and increased productivity of workers everywhere.<br>
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Good reporting work from Brzezinski for allowing Labrador to expose
and illustrate his political status as clearly detrimental to the
majority of his constituents.<br>
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Ken<br>
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