Я все думаю, чем же меня так раздражает миссис Обама, и кажется, нашлось одно из подтверждений, чем
"Everyone should have a chief of staff and a set of personal assistants," Obama said with a laugh as she spoke before a crowd of business executives meeting today during a "Corporate Voices for Working Families" conference at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington.
Along with the issues of community service and military families, Obama has said as first lady she wants to focus on the struggles of working families.
- Прекрасно, залопотали все фибры моей души, знакомые непонаслышке с этими самыми struggles.
Obama said she personally knows the challenges of balancing work and family "trying to do a good job at both -- and always feeling like you're not quite living up to either -- and trying not to pit one against the other, really trying to balance."
- Ручьи моих невидимых миру слез слились унисоном в предвкушении катарсиса, обещанного Первой леди...
She called herself someone who strives to do more than 100 percent at work. "If people here are like me -- I call myself a 120-percenter. If I'm not doing any job at 120 percent, I think I'm failing. So if you're trying to do that at home and at work, you find it very difficult and stressful and frustrating."
- Однако, катарсис завис где - то невдалеке, ибо в поток подсознания нагло вперся поток сознания, заявивший, Позвольте, но быть 120 процентной стахановкой - это смахивает на Type 1 personality disorder - к счастью, не так часто встречающеется состояние....особенно среди работающих матерей.
Obama told the story of her own childhood, growing up in Chicago with a father who worked as a city employee at a time when he could make enough money to allow her mother to stay home with the children.
- Блин, но тут либо с моей логикой что-то не то, либо с логикой миссис Обамы...
"When I look back on my childhood and the life that my parents provided, working-class folks with not a lot of money, my father was a blue-collar city worker who worked a shift job," she said. "But because he earned enough as a shift worker without a college degree, he could still support a family of four on that salary. And because he could, with that salary, support us -- we rented a home, we didn't live lavishly -- my mother was able to stay at home. She could afford to make the choice not to go to work while we were growing up. That was how families balanced back then."
- очень хорошо, но было бы лучше, если б о том пошла речь, если бы миссис Обама привела пример, как ее мама работала на 120 % на работе, а потом столько же впахивала дома...ну ладно, может дальше пояснения пойдут...
She said the economic situation has changed today. "One income really doesn't always cut it anymore. And that's in my lifetime," Obama said.
Безусловно, но и домики, в которых живет сегодняшняя америка, и машинки, на которых она ездит несколько отличаются от тех, в котрых жили и ездили ваши родители...
"In most families, both parents have to work, and even if people want to make the choice to stay home. And again, there is no subjective analysis or -- of what is better".
- Ну само собой лучше жить на велфере в субсидированном жилье и ходить в ближайший магазин с фудстемпами пешком...
"But people can't make the choice. It's even harder for single parents, and there are millions of them all across this country who are trying to build a life for themselves and their children, and they find in an economy that's tough that they're not just holding down one but they need a couple of jobs just to make ends meet."
- Экономи всегда тафф. По закону роста потребления с ростом благосостояния.
Obama said when she was an executive, she learned that giving her employees more flexibility helped their productivity.
"I found that as I've managed staff, the more flexibility and opportunities that I gave them to be good parents, the more commitment that they made to working with me, the less likely they were to leave because they wouldn't find the same sort of situation somewhere else," Obama said.
Звучит потрясающе, но против законов рынка, в котором все равны. Если у тебя дети - ты из заводил/заводила для себя и рассчитывал/рассчитывала на себя и на условия рабочего контракта, по которому тебе полагается то - то и не полагается се - то. Иначе - дискриминация.
"So this isn't just about family balance. This is about making work places stronger and more effective, and keeping and attracting the most qualified people. This research is critical to empowering employers and is politically -- particularly important during our current economic climate."
Простите, мисс Обама, но все это БЛА - БЛА - БЛА. Работодатель дает условия. Работник подписывает контракт. То что предлагаете Вы, это вмешательство государства в частный бизнес. Такое вмешательство может быть оправданным при тяжелой демографической ситуации (как это произошло во Франции, кстати, там это дало положительные сдвиги в рожаемости). В Америке нет и в обозримом будущем не будет демографического кризиса. В этих условиях, льготы семейным - это чистой воды добровольная инициатива работодателей и Вам туда лучше не соваться.
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