When Clinton signed the family leave legislation everyone thought we were finally approaching the humanity our European cousins display with similar laws that allow workers to take time off to care for a new baby or a sick relative.

Twelve weeks leave, with a guarantee of a job to return to.

The liberal largesse is beginning to escalate. Massachusetts is considering legislation that would not only give a worker twelve weeks off, but pay her as well. Employers are now paying twice for government forced humanity: Once to the absent worker and again to her replacement.

The government is once again doing its best to kill business people. They are like bad hunters stalking deer, shooting and maiming, damaging and wounding the poor animal, forcing it into a retreat of misery until it finally lays down and dies.

And businesses will die, thanks to the liberal insistence on governmental parenting. Psychologists caution parents ultimately to let go of their children and allow them to rise or fall on their own. The government has yet to learn this lesson.

So, if I’m a businessman who’s hiring and my choice is between a woman of child bearing age or a woman past child bearing age, or between a woman of child bearing age and a man, who do you think it makes sense for me to hire?

Women, beware.