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To: Joe NYC who wrote (112078)	5/23/2000 5:14:00 PM
From: Bill Jackson	Read Replies (2) of 1571084

Joe, I partly disagree with you and also partly disagree with Amy J. There needs to be a level of benefits the cost of which is paid by all employees that allows women to take leave for child bearing and recuperation. The paid portion needs to be a small number of weeks paid by the company and a larger portion paid by the Governmental plan for this purpose that spreads this cost over the entire workforce. This avoids crippling the copany if they lose too much wages to chilbearing women on leave if you set it at one year. Probably 2 weeks above the vacation amount is reasonable and then the Government plan kicks in for perhaps 6 months and a reduced rate similar to unemployment insurance(tax free) The USA has to avoid the situation that exists in Europe with benefits costing more than wages since they have huge mandated holiday periods and child bearing leaves etc. ALl brought in by socialists who think that more holidays = more jobs, when it really means fewer jobs as your country gets less efficient. We must also avoid the Mexican situation where worker control by starvation is practiced. Above all remember that if you give away money for free to a certain group...whatever that group is...it will grow by recruitment from other groups. A case in point is the welfare group grows by recruitment from the wirking group whenever you pay more money than they can get at a low end job. the answer is to cut the welfare so the working group recruits from the welfare group. This has worked very well. Cut welfare to zero for any news kids and all of a sudden the welfare baby factories stop since they will get no more money. People are like pigeons. stand on a corner and feed pigeons and in a year you will have huge flocks. Stop and some will starve and the rest will work for a living. Welfare actually hurts and disempowers people...it makes them incapable of fending for themselves. I am glad they reduced it. In the same way excess benefits do the same. You get women who will have kid after kid after kid if you gave aful year at full wages. that is time enough to have the next one the day after you get back. No, you say?ook at Europe and wonder why the Euro is tanking. Bill

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