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NY Senator Kirsten Gillibrand: Pakistan and Afghanistan Better for Women than America
Frontpage Mag ^ | 09/26/2014 | Daniel Greenfield

Posted on 09/26/2014 9:21:47 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

Oddly Gillibrand insists on living in the United States instead of in the more progressive Pakistan under the notoriously feminist Sharia law.

New York Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, appointed to her position via Senator Schumer as a favor for a politically connected clan, changed all her political positions and is working hard to pretend that she’s a serious legislator.

Mainly by repeating stupid things that other people have said.

The most animated speaker was Gillibrand, who condemned opposition to expanding paid family leave across the country.

The Family and Medical Insurance Leave Act would establish a national paid family and medical leave insurance program so workers would not have to choose between a paycheck and caring for themselves or a family member, said Gillibrand.

“In every other industrialized, wealthy country in the world they have paid leave,” the senator said. “Europe has up to six months. Even Afghanistan and Pakistan have paid leave, but we do not have paid leave in this country, and because of that when forced to meet a family need, an urgent care need, often times women are forced to leave the workplace because they cannot take that time off unpaid.”

Sure Pakistan and Afghanistan are fantastic for women.

Liberals never seem to realize that just because Third World Failed State #44 ratified their UN Treaty on the Protection of the Rights of Transsexual Penguins and added the laws to the books doesn’t mean that those laws mean anything or apply to people.

Every dictatorship has signed on to a dozen human rights treaties.

Sure Pakistan and Afghanistan have paid leave for women. They also have prisons full of women who left their husbands. There are rather few Afghan women even in the workplace.

Those who are often work for Western NGOs who would provide family leave anyway.

On paper, Afghanistan has some very generous laws for women in the workplace. 100% employer responsibility, sure. Take as many weeks off as you want.

In reality, the justice system is nearly inaccessible, illiteracy is widespread and the average income is measured in cents a day.

Demanding your rights from a local employer? Good luck with that.

Men can and do kill women with impunity. But they’ve got weeks of 100 percent paid family leave on the books somewhere. So they’re shining models for the progs.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: afghanistan; gillibrand; pakistan; women
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To: SeekAndFind

I have to wonder, just how much stupid garbage are we going to hear over the next 2 months?


21 posted on 09/26/2014 11:05:53 PM PDT by AllAmericanGirl44
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To: SeekAndFind
Kirsten Gillibrand probably claims that the Republican Party are waging a war on women.


22 posted on 09/26/2014 11:16:40 PM PDT by Slyfox (Satan's goal is to rub out the image of God he sees in the face of every human.)
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To: SeekAndFind
If New York Senator Kirsten Gillibrand is so enamored with Pakistan and Afghanistan, I think she should be exiled to one of them for the rest of her life. Putting her in a burka would remove her physical ugliness from sight.
23 posted on 09/26/2014 11:34:02 PM PDT by MasterGunner01
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To: SeekAndFind

Per Wiki, Afghan minimum wage de jure for government workers (and de facto for private-sector workers) is 5000 afghani a month. At the current rate, that’s 88 bucks. (Although good luck getting that much if you’re a day laborer.)

Pakistani minimum is 10,000 rupee a month, or $97.28.


24 posted on 09/26/2014 11:45:29 PM PDT by RichInOC (Palin 2016: The Perfect Storm.)
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To: GeronL

Well she is talking to NYers after all. I think theyll believe anything given the people they elect.


25 posted on 09/27/2014 2:30:26 AM PDT by 556x45
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To: SeekAndFind
I live in New York. I bet if you took a poll less than half the people here could name her as their Senator and maybe 1 in 20 could pick her face out of a crowd. Prior to the past couple of weeks it had been months since I saw her name in the news for any reason. She isn't just undistinguished, she's nearly invisible

But people have started to talk about her running for President since she's a woman, she's reasonably good looking and Democrats are desperate for an alternative to the dreary inevitability (again!) of Hillary Clinton. But in order for this to happen she has to actually become a public figure. This is why you're suddenly reading about her, and why she's suddenly started spouting this nonsense.

26 posted on 09/27/2014 2:50:33 AM PDT by jalisco555 ("My 80% friend is not my 20% enemy" - Ronald Reagan)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Leave her alone.....she’s the only GOOD looking Democrat in the country!!


27 posted on 09/27/2014 2:57:54 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion......the Human Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Did her puppeteer the despicable chucky schumer say this? The stupid are getting more stupid


28 posted on 09/27/2014 3:22:35 AM PDT by ronnie raygun
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To: SeekAndFind

And they call Sarah Palin stupid? What do you call this? Brain dead is the only appropriate term I can think of. If she is so fond of Pakistan and Afghanistan, why is she still here? Put on a burqa, you brain dead twit.


29 posted on 09/27/2014 3:29:14 AM PDT by NTHockey (Rules of engagement #1: Take no prisoners. And to the NSA trolls, FU)
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To: SeekAndFind

Schumer’s shiksa!


30 posted on 09/27/2014 3:29:42 AM PDT by Dr. Ursus
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To: SeekAndFind

Competing for the insanity title with Nancy Pelosi.


31 posted on 09/27/2014 4:01:04 AM PDT by VTenigma (The Democratic party is the party of the mathematically challenged)
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To: SeekAndFind

Women are allowed to work for pay under sharia law?


32 posted on 09/27/2014 4:13:16 AM PDT by jughandle (Big words anger me, keep talking.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Almost every major employer in this country has “medical leave” as a benefit offered to their employees....some, not many are even paid leave for a set time period ....by using accrued sick, vacation time...

Male and female paid leave...

Because of liberal policies a pregnancy is treated as a medical issue and companies cannot treat men and women differently....

So because of that women do not have the right to be treated differently than men and get “paid leave” for a pregnancy.... In most cases...

The cost to pay employees both female and male with paid leave is too burdensome so special circumstances like having a baby is out of the question....

She is too stupid to understand is is being hung by her own rope...


33 posted on 09/27/2014 4:40:24 AM PDT by Popman (Jesus Christ Alone: My Cornerstone...)
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To: SeekAndFind

As in every case of liberal money distribution; “Sweetheart, who do we take the money away from to pay the people that are not working?”

Then we ask “Who will keep working when you take away their earnings?”

Socialism is a lapse of reasoning.


34 posted on 09/27/2014 4:55:04 AM PDT by Blue Collar Christian (quod est Latine morositate)
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To: SeekAndFind

Liberals are flat out “idea bankrupt.” They have nothing to crow about because everything they stand for is a lie that is dangerous to America. They appeal to the greedy and stupid in that order. When we sit home we lose because there are always enough greedys and stupids to elect these scumbags. If this ash hole took thirty seconds to understand what life is like in these Sharia hell holes she wouldn’t say this but, well she is a Democrat.


35 posted on 09/27/2014 5:02:25 AM PDT by jmaroneps37 (Conservatism is truth. Liberalism is lies.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Sadly Hanoi Kirsten was a fairly conservative member of the House of Rep from upstate NY who was selected to fill Hellary KKKlinton’s Senate seat. Almost instantly after Chuck Schumer got his hands on her she transformed into his political sock puppet. She is widely despised here.


36 posted on 09/27/2014 5:40:52 AM PDT by Brooklyn Attitude (Things are only going to get worse.)
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To: SeekAndFind

As Jonah Goldberg writes in a column today the feminist industry only exists by promoting a scene of unbridled hell on earth for women in the awful United States of America.


37 posted on 09/27/2014 5:44:38 AM PDT by driftless2 (For long term happiness, learn how to play the accordion.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Beyond disgusting propaganda for evil.


38 posted on 09/27/2014 6:05:17 AM PDT by Lady Heron
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To: SeekAndFind

so this tool must agree, that we should take ALL illegal aliens, since they don’t belong here, and ship them to Pak where they would be better off. Why keep them here, as America is horrible to women!


39 posted on 09/27/2014 6:39:08 AM PDT by rigelkentaurus
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