LOL: CNN changes stance on paid family leave because Trump supports it

Despite the disastrous policies of President Donald Trump thus far, one thing has been consistently hilarious: the media’s reaction to everything; from two scoops of ice cream to “covfefe.” If the president takes a position that the media tend to agree with, they will immediately reverse their stance on said issue (well, except for war; the media will always love and crave war).

Case in point, CNN’s position on paid family leave.

The issue of paid family leave has been important to the left and liberal networks like CNN. The left want government to mandate paid family leave, which is something they’ve advocated for for years.

President Trump is now doing it. As part of his latest budget, the president, likely taking advice from his SJW daughter Ivanka Trump, has added paid family leave. This should please the left, correct? Nope.

Here are three different headlines from CNN over the past month:

Everyone should have a shot at paid family leave (opinion) – Apr. 4, 2017

Trump’s budget to include paid family leave – May 22, 2017

How paid family leave hurts women (Opinion) – May 30, 2017

Here is also a tweet that showcases the headlines:

Life comes at you fast. pic.twitter.com/sM76mBiZzR

— Orwell & Goode 🇨🇱 (@OrwellNGoode) May 31, 2017

This is hilarious. CNN now opposes paid family leave just because Trump supports it.

Now, paid family leave does really hurt women because businesses generally look at the total cost of hiring a particular worker rather than just the nominal wage. Legendary free market economist Ludwig von Mises wrote about this in “Human Action”:

“In weighing the pros and cons of the hiring of workers the employer does not ask himself what the worker gets as take-home wages. The only relevant question for him is: What is the total price I have to expend for securing the services of this worker? In speaking of the determination of wage rates catallactics always refers to the total price which the employer must spend for a definite quantity of work of a definite type, i.e., to gross wage rates. If laws or business customs force the employer to make other expenditures besides the wages he pays to the employee, the take-home wages are reduced accordingly. Such accessory expenditures do not affect the gross rate of wages. Their incidence falls entirely upon the wage-earner. Their total amount reduces the height of take-home wages, i.e., of net wage rates.”

Paid family leave comes with a plethora of unintended consequences: businesses may hire fewer female employees or will select older female workers.

Moreover, this is a free market issue, and the marketplace has already started to take care of the matter, as Liberty Nation notes.

That said, the flip flopping of the media is comical. Thanks to the Internet, everyone can highlight their hypocrisy and lack of principles (if they ever had any).