Posted on 04/12/2009 10:43:21 AM PDT by AJKauf
There are some public policy ideas that won’t die — no matter how bad they are. One of these is “comparable worth.” It is built on the misguided policy notion that there is a gap in pay between men and women that cannot be accounted for except by subtle gender discrimination. And it survives by confusing the public that the only goal is to assure men and women performing the same work are paid “equally.”
The basic idea behind comparable worth is that the government will determine which jobs are “comparable” — a truck driver and a school teacher, a welder and a nurse — and mandate that they should be paid equally. The theory is that those sneaky schools and hospitals evade the free marketplace in determining wages, taking advantage and “undervaluing” those jobs with higher percentages of female employees. Government will sort all that out and restore “gender fairness.
Ronald Reagan called the government scheme of determining pay structures for private industry a "cockamamie idea."...
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Just another anti-capitalist plan of the Leftist-in-Chief and his minions in Congress.
Every wrongheaded liberal idea which was beaten back over the last 29 years, will be passed in the next 8.
There will be a second 4 years over my dead, cold body.
They put the cafeteria table cleanup workers on the same scale as the line crews. As one might imagine, the rank & file of the line crews (and the supervisors for that matter) did NOT like that.
You want the flowers sent where?
I will never again hire a female for anything higher than admin assistant.
Way too much drama, too many liablities.
And each new ruling, such as this, confirms my position.
This will backfire on the libs becasue men will take the cushy jobs currently held primarily by women. Why work a hard, dirty, and dangerous job if as much money can be made in an easy one?
RIP
8? I don’t think so.
I am willing to wager $100.
‘comparable worth’ sounds good to me.
how much should someone with 8 years of post high school education get compared to a high school dropout? someone that spends 60-80 hrs/week working compared to someone that can’t get their ass out of bed?
while we are at it... how about ‘comparable contributions’ linked to ‘comparable usage’.
if someone has paid $100k in taxes compared to someone that had paid only $1k in taxes... which should get more from the government?
i believe the amount you get from the government should be limited to your contribution. this would only be fair, after all.
“There will be a second 4 years over my dead, cold body.”
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The second four won’t matter, there is no way we will survive the first four years of this insanity.
This is Marxism, synthsized...
The Government setting pay scales in the private sector.
This is Commie 101.
Get ready for Holder to enforce this at YOUR place of work; irrespective of risk, hard work or intelligence.
The Liberal’s hates the idea of “losers” so he makes everyone a loser to make loser #1 feel better.
I wonder if the beasts in the WMBA and LPGA are excited to know they will soon be making $5,000,000 per year, just like the boys...
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