So-called "feel-good" stories that "ought to make you throw up."

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11. I think slavery is barbaric

but that's just me.

It does not benefit people who are already born, long before it goes into effect.

Really I think paid leave in general is not a good idea. Your pay really results from the product or service that you produce. If nothing is produced by you, then you really shouldn't get paid. In practical terms though, if there was no paid sick leave then people would be coming to work sick and getting everybody else sick - co-workers, customers, etc. Also, I have worked for many years when I did not have paid sick leave. Like from November 1986 until August 2001, and then, of course, I was unemployed from March 2002 until August 2002 when I got this amazing part time job with benefits.

Sick leave, however, tends to be a benefit that you are not supposed to use. Many times I have worked when I was sick, but in the end not really "too sick to work". Once though I thought I was going to have to go straight from work to the emergency room. Even funnier, at that time I was supposedly the boss.