So while this fellow is crowing over his great benefit, does he allocate a single braincell to consider just WHO pays for this benefit? The Swedish taxpayer and consumer, of course, not some rich Bill Gates in the sky who just flings Swedish kroner out from a cloud to flutter down and bless the dedicated Swedes who love their children.
Think it through. The fellow has two kids; if he gets 1.5 years paid leave for each, then he has a total of 3 YEARS paid leave (in addition to all his other subsidized benefits). If his working career is a total of 30-35 years, this means that 10% of the cost of his services or goods is merely to provide this benefit alone.
Talk about non-competitiveness!
I say we pay for one-way tickets to Sweden for any American who wants this benefit.
Isn’t he and his wife paying for someone else that is doing the same thing?
And I thought welfare queens could only be girls!
So everyone adopts the policy I’m going to get mine too.
And what about the poor couples or singles that can’t have or want kids? What are they going to do for them? You can;t discriminate against them now can you!
(Why) don’t we pay for Swedish classes in Mexico! ;-)
It’s unlikely his two kids are muzzies, so I think Sweden has come out ahead.
And I was elated that my wife got 8 weeks 60% salary!
She’s due with our first November 5th!
When I was working in the CA Senate I was entitled to eight weeks PAID of the twelve weeks of family leave act. But I was a key staffer in an office of just five Republicans (who are always understaffed). As much as we desperately needed the paid time off, there is simply no way I would just wave and say “good luck” to the guy who put his trust in me when I was hired. I’m not going to stick my nose in the air and say how noble a feeling it was, because it was shear hell financially during those years. But dammit, people need to start taking some responsibility for themselves and their own families if we are ever going to get back to the great nation we once were.
The men is Sweden have swedish wives yet wear Capri pants.
How is this possible?
They usually split the leave btw the two "partners". And they have them back to back to get the time off close together. They literally go out and buy double strollers because they know they will be having them back to back for the leave.
Then they turn about 7 and they set them loose. It's not uncommon to see roving bands of 7-8 year olds roaming the subways and streets of Stockholm.
Oh, but the Swedes have been competitive.
The reason is that the overall population works pretty hard when they do work.
There isn’t the “underclass” of total buffoons like there is in the US.
Unfortunately, the government has imported the underclass in large quantities from Eastern Europe and Africa so it will catch up to them one of these days.
My son was born in Sweden. We were given the 18 months as well but didn’t use it. Too busy. But, it is nice.
I feel bad for my friends who have kids and then have to go back to work in a couple of weeks. So much bonding is missed.
“Stay at Home Dad” = Lazy Failure
Fine, I’ll accept that he’s happy over this. However, he loses any right to complain about the taxes in his country, or to complain when unemployment goes up due to the non-competitive economy.