Who could have known that breastfeeding is a "job killer"?

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Staples Co-Founder: Allowing Breastfeeding At Work Will ‘Kill Jobs’

By Michael Hayne, February 16, 2012

Staunch Republican donor and co-founder of Staples, Tom Stemberg, has a grave concern that might just throw the fragile economic recovery into the into a precipitous tailspin: breastfeeding. Indeed, the ever-so menacing and communist practice of a new mother providing natural enrichment and bonding with her newborn child (maybe because she doesn’t charge the kid a fee for service?) will hurt businesses.

Not surprisingly, Stemberg is a longtime supporter of policies of Republicans like Mitt Romney, and he’s incessantly complaining about how Obama’s health care reform will force him to abide by such onerous laws as providing what he called “lactation stations” for new moms who need to breastfeed at work. So much for thinking that lactation station was a bosomy all-female rock group from the late 70s.

“Do you want [farming retailer] Tractor Supply to open stores or would you rather they take their capital and do what Obamacare and its 2,700 pages dictates – which is to open a lactation chamber at every single store that they have?” said a dyspeptic Stemberg.

Aside from it secretly fulfilling Stemberg’s warped sexual fantasy of watching a woman breast feed on a tractor, would Stemberg rather women be late for work and jeopardize day-to-day activities. Or would he quit pouting and let nursing female employees find a quiet and empty place to breastfeed. Stemberg is of course referring to the provision of health care reform that requires employers to give lactating mothers “reasonable break time” to nurse their child, as well as “a place, other than a bathroom, that is shielded from view and free from intrusion from coworkers and the public.

The place they provide for new moms doesn’t have to a special room just as long as it’s private and can be called into use when female employees need it. In other words, Tina the sales manager isn’t going to be affixing her newborn to her tete on the sales floor or forcing her male co-workers to endure the act as they scarf down some pre-digested, high-fructose crap of a pocket variety in the break room. So much for bringing your child to work day when your boss is an infant himself.

Stemberg, who has contributed tens of thousands of dollars to Romney’s campaign and SuperPAC, ironically enough has urged repealing healthcare to be the first on the next president’s “to-do” list. It’s ironic considering that his candidate of choice, Mitt Romney, wrote the blueprint for Obama’s health care reform and has been assaulted for it by every one of the 2012 republican candidates.
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