Five Months Off? Minnesota’s Paid Leave Law Pushes Policy Into Fantasyland

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Minnesota’s new paid family and medical leave program allows up to 20 weeks of paid time off—an unprecedented mandate that threatens small businesses, invites fraud, and ignores how real workplaces actually function. Beyond the economics, it reflects a growing cultural mindset that prioritizes extended leave over personal responsibility and productivity. This episode breaks down the costs, the consequences, and the disconnect between policymakers and the employers expected to carry the load, all while exposing the loopholes and ideological wish-casting built into the law.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:16):
Stupid is stupid?

Speaker 3 (00:17):
Does Minnesota taking family leave? Family leave stupidity to new heights?
Oh yeah, yeah, that's this is a favorite one for
people on the left. You need to have paid family leave. Yeah,
I get it. For the mother, the mother, I absolutely,

(00:41):
you want to give dad a week, maybe week, maybe
two at the most Minnesota. Minnesota's new paid family and
Medical leave law allows up to wait for it twenty weeks,

(01:02):
twenty weeks of leave and paid benefits. It's going to
start on January first. Okay, do the math on that one. Kids,
do the math. Twenty five months, five months, five months

(01:23):
for the mother and the father. You can take paid
leave to care for yourself during serious health conditions like surgery, injury,
a chronic condition, pregnancy and childbirth, and other health needs
certified by your provider. Oh, this is going to be
so much fraud with this for family leave. It covers

(01:44):
bonding with the child through birth, adoption, or foster placement,
caring for a family member with a serious health issue,
supporting a military family member called for active duty, or
responding to a safety issue including domestic violence, sexual assault,
or stalking for you or a family member, how how

(02:05):
you're going to handle this? Somebody says, I was stalked
by someone, and then you're going to get twenty weeks
off from work? Yeah? All right, first and foremost, and
then I understand. I understand. I said, employers want to
take care of their employees. But let me just be

(02:27):
perfectly clear. If you can't make it into work, if
you go missing from your job for five months, why
do they need you? Why did they Let's say it's
a small business. Let's say it's a small business. It's

(02:49):
got four employees, four employees. They got four employees and
one decides that, you know what, I'm going to take
family leave for uh weeks, five months? Now you got one.
It's twenty five percent of your workforce. You're gonna have

(03:09):
to replace that person, are you not? So you mean
to tell me you're gonna have to bring in a
tamp train that tamp get the and then you're gonna
have to get rid of them. After five months. See,
the people that put these things together, quite frankly, have
never run a business in their entire lives. And I'm

(03:33):
gonna be upfront and honest. Okay to all of you
sensitive ponytail types out there with your man buns, Okay,
get the hell back to work. You're a father for
crying out loud. Provide for your family. Okay, your wife
doesn't need you there sitting around for twenty weeks. That

(03:53):
has never happened in the history.

Speaker 2 (03:55):
Of the planet. Yeah, yeah, yeah, back in the day.
You know, hunter gathers are all all that stuff. Oh yeah,
my wife had a baby.

Speaker 3 (04:02):
I can't go out and you know, kill the you
know the massinon for crying out.

Speaker 2 (04:06):
I can't do it. Somebody's got to do that shit
for me. Now the hell on you here, go work,
provide for your family. For you should be fired up
to provide for your family. No, I'm gonna I'm gonna
sit home like mayor Pete buddhajeg jag jagg with fake boobs,
fill it with milk to pretend I'm breastfeeding my baby.

Speaker 3 (04:28):
What God's creation is wrong with you?

Speaker 2 (04:33):
Get your butt off the couch and go back to
work and provide for your kids.

Speaker 3 (04:36):
Provide for your family twenty weeks paid family leave, get
out of here again. Making no sense whatsoever, but even better,
this rule also applies if you are undocumented. Can't make
it up. Can't make it up watch dog on Wall

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