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In March 2025, in the thread "Re: OT, out", Umm asked the members: "Do you think it is because America is made up of magical soil that makes businesses based in America magically profitable?" This week it is put to everyone again. The button below opens the small thread re-asking it - read what others have said so far, then give your own answer as an ordinary reply.
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Author: Steve203 ⎊❂🐝 HONORARY
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Subject: Re: Fox News Freaking Out
Date: 11/06/25 10:49 AM
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Maybe require companies of more than 50 employees to offer it as a benefit (like health insurance under the ACA; 50 seems like an arbitrary, but round, number). I think the benefits would outweigh the costs pretty quickly.

That would be a "burden" that the "JCs" would not want. So they would be motivated to not hire anyone with young spawn. Somehow, it sticks in my mind that the Oklahoma City Federal Building, the one blown up by white Christian boys, had a daycare center, but it was a government operation, so could do nice things for staff, that a "JC" would not.

yup, from the net sifter:

The Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City had a daycare center that was destroyed in the 1995 bombing, which killed 19 children inside. The building was subsequently demolished and the site is now the location of the Oklahoma City National Memorial. There is no longer a federal building daycare center at that location

USians have been brainwashed that everything must be rationed by ability to pay. The inevitable result is that some people are left behind.

Steve
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