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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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1 posted on 09/26/2014 9:21:47 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

She just says anything that comes into that empty little head of hers, doesn’t she?


2 posted on 09/26/2014 9:24:10 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("The man who damns money obtained it dishonorably; the man who respects it earned it." --Ayn Rand)
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To: SeekAndFind

These people are idiots.


3 posted on 09/26/2014 9:25:10 PM PDT by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!!)
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To: Jim Robinson

Yes they are. And the idiot sheeple will believe crap like that too.


4 posted on 09/26/2014 9:26:34 PM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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To: SeekAndFind

this is a resume enhancer for a Democrat


5 posted on 09/26/2014 9:27:29 PM PDT by RginTN
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To: SeekAndFind

The ho needs to tell that to the women in Afghanistan and Pakistan. I know they’d really appreciate hearing it. As a matter of fact, why don’t she call that female pilot from the UAE and tell her how good she’s got it.


6 posted on 09/26/2014 9:27:57 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Stop flooding our schools with unaccompanied illegal aliens. Do it for the children!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Yeah, but where does what comes into her head come from? What’s she drinkin’, or smokin’, or sniffin’?

Democrats are strange life forms.


7 posted on 09/26/2014 9:36:48 PM PDT by rockinqsranch ((Dems, Libs, Socialists, call 'em what you will. They ALL have fairies livin' in their trees.))
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To: SeekAndFind

If she really believes that she should move to Afghanistan or Pakistan for a month..heck even better, I give her a week, if she can last a week without being beheaded or stoned to death she should consider herself lucky


8 posted on 09/26/2014 9:38:17 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: SeekAndFind

So, when does she move to either of those feminist paradises?


9 posted on 09/26/2014 9:39:19 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: SeekAndFind

“Jane, you ignorant slut!”


10 posted on 09/26/2014 9:40:09 PM PDT by Califreak (Hope and Che'nge is killing U.S.)
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To: rockinqsranch

“Democrats are strange life forms.”

They are indeed.


11 posted on 09/26/2014 9:41:18 PM PDT by ought-six ( Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule.)
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To: SeekAndFind
Liberalism. It's a mental illness.

Articles that explain how modern liberals suffer from a mental disorder.


12 posted on 09/26/2014 9:42:43 PM PDT by TigersEye (ISIS is the tip of the spear. The spear is Islam.)
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To: SeekAndFind

By all means, Kirsten, head over there alone and unaccompanied to prove it!


13 posted on 09/26/2014 9:42:46 PM PDT by Darksheare (People who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Well, then there’s that whole, beheading your former coworker if they a\happen to be a woman, and therefore weaker Just in the upper body strength area.

But, yeah, that’s really not so good for women.


14 posted on 09/26/2014 9:43:45 PM PDT by stanne
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To: SeekAndFind

This woman is a stupid B****. If she feels this way she should move. I am sick and tired of these ignorant lying politicians.


15 posted on 09/26/2014 9:46:17 PM PDT by funfan
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To: SeekAndFind
Do my fellow Americans have oatmeal for brains? When you put a flashlight to her ear, do you see light on the other side of her head? Is there ANY gray matter between her ears? Is she just plain old DummycRat Stupid?
16 posted on 09/26/2014 9:49:52 PM PDT by Chgogal (Obama "hung the SEALs out to dry, basically exposed them like a set of dog balls..." CMH)
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To: SeekAndFind

Good grief!


17 posted on 09/26/2014 9:53:43 PM PDT by wjcsux ("In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act." - George Orwell)
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To: SeekAndFind

Tell her to live in Pakistan or Afghanistan for 5-6 days.


18 posted on 09/26/2014 10:00:00 PM PDT by jennychase
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To: SeekAndFind


I am sure these Afghan women would be more than happy to trade places with any of the goofy lib women we have here.
19 posted on 09/26/2014 10:00:01 PM PDT by wjcsux ("In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act." - George Orwell)
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To: SeekAndFind

Hmmm, the stupid runs strong in this one...


20 posted on 09/26/2014 10:07:08 PM PDT by 43north (BHO: 50% black, 50% white, 100% RED.)
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