MAGA
When all you do is WIN WIN WIN
Classic broken window fallacy. Obama is wrong in every circumstance of that statement. It may make sense to have paid maternity/paternity leave on social grounds, but it isn't going to make a difference on the economy. It will in fact have a detrimental effect on economic production, though likely not to a statistically relevant level. That's how societal choices work. You make a choice and there is an economic cost to enforcing said choice.
Yeah, businesses love paying employees for doing no work. It's a great way to run a business.
Or they could, you know, do like Scandinavian countries are doing where the government pays for portion of the salary and the business doesn't have to pay anything.
Oh wait, I forgot - this is USA where no logic that works everywhere else can be applied because it's like another dimension.
Threads that start out this biased aren't going to be productive. Locking this.