GOP congressman Raul Labrador "people dont need paid family leave" leaves Morning Joe speechless

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

On Tuesday morning’s Morning Joe, host Mika Brzezinski welcomed House Freedom Caucus member Raul Labrador (R-ID) to discuss the failure of the Republican health care plan. Labrador opposed Trumpcare 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.

“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.”

When Brzezinski pressed whether the leave was specifically family 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.”

https://thinkprogress.org/raul-labrador-paid-family-leave-832dd5094af7

[Eliot Rosewater]

1. He is a liar, of course. And no, they not only dont care about their employees

they see working people as greedy.

The problem is these people are allowed to act like this because damn near half of the people working for them think they are gonna be the boss someday and they cant WAIT to do the same thing to someone else.

[GWC58]

3. Something i

would never do if I were the "boss." Some people get their jollies in the most pervasive ways. Glad I'm not that way.

[Wellstone ruled]

2. If you know anything about

Idaho,this dufus gets his talking points from two sources,Fox News and the Temple on the Square in Salt Lake City.

[GWC58]

4. One of a handful of

States I'd stay away from. The others being Wyoming, Utah, South Dakota, Kansas, Indiana and the southeastern United States.

[Wellstone ruled]

5. Ignorance and

Intolerance is the fair of the day in those states.

[woodsprite]

6. Not surprised, but he's an ignorant asshole! n/t

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

7. Here's the salient line: "I gave them leave whenever they needed leave"

Without laws requiring these assholes to provide vacation days (not "leave&quot they'd be perfectly happy to work their employees to death each year. Or to death once, come to think of it. You can tell from the tone of his voice that he resented that he had to pay for every day an employee wasn't "productive." This is why the Democratic Party exists, and why unions exist.

[OnDoutside]

8. He gives Labradors a bad name ... Ruff !