..... Then, matching a campaign promise by presumptive Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton, she vowed her father would "fight for equal pay for equal work and I will fight for this too, right alongside him." ..... < snip > Ivanka Trump, the daughter of GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump, cast her father as a "fighter" for working people, particularly working women, in her remarks ..... < snip >
Ivanka Trump is currently writing a book "Women Who Work: Rewriting the Rules for Success," due to be published next year.
No new federal welfare programs, please.
We already have equal pay laws and no thanks to public funded child care.
We’ll hear that crap at the freak show next week.
Ivanka is after all a liberal Democrat. No surprise.
I don’t have a problem with Trump being the nominee but, is everyone in the family to get a soapbox?
I'm with Trump and trying to attribute this to an effort to attract middle of the road and undecided women. (But it didn't sit well with me)
I see nothing wrong with equal pay for EQUAL WORK. Seems eminently fair agenda. The question is who will enforce it’s compliance. Judges are not educated enough in so many highly specialized technical fields to judge. There are not too many judges with a background in computerized manufacturing automation, or brain surgery, or rocket science, for example.
The problem with that is the work experience issue.
Should a woman with 5 years work experience who took five years off to start a family have some right to come back and then be paid the same as men or women working ten straight years?
No, and women are usually paid more compared to men working the same years anyway.
This was moving to the left for the vote IMO.
Anyone taking months or years off of a well paying job not to have kids... do they deserve to get their jobs back?
If apples versus apples, then if Jack takes a year off to build a tree house or improve his golf swing, and Jill takes a year off to have a kid, and Jill gets her job back, should Jack also get his job back?
News max misquotes - missing a word, which can change the context. I took what Ivanka said to mean if a person actually does equal work, they should get very similar pay as another doing that same job. (which to me, in many cases makes sense. A person’s experience etc may also factor in to make differences)
“He will fight for equal pay FOR equal work. I will fight for it too right alongside of him,” she said ...
Watching the Democratic Convention last night, it was obvious the Democrats speaking at the Democratic Convention, recycled a bunch of old Democratic Party ideas.
There were Democrats on center stage at the Democratic Convention last night talking about LGBT Rights which has long been a Liberal Democratic idea.
And then the Democrats at their Democratic Convention dusted off their Liberal Democratic Agenda calling for free child care and equal pay.
I suspected that we’d hear things like equal pay and childcare from Ivanka. While I agree with her in principle, please consider the following.
The problem with the things that Ivanka mentioned is this. The states have never delegated to the feds, expressly via the Constitution, the specific powers to address equal pay or childcare issues. This is evidenced by the 10th Amendment which the Founding States drafted to clarify that the Constitution’s silence about the issues that Ivanka mentioned means that they are automatically and uniquely state power issues, not the business of the feds.
In fact, previous generations of state sovereignty-respecting justices had clarified that Congress is prohibited from appropriating taxes for anything that it cannot justify under its constitutional Article I, Section 8-limited powers, childcare not among those powers and equal pay not a constitutionally enumerated right.
“Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States.” —Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
”State inspection laws, health laws, and laws for regulating the internal commerce of a State, and those which respect turnpike roads, ferries, &c. are not within the power granted to Congress [emphases added].” —Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
”From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited [emphasis added].” —United States v. Butler, 1936.
Trump and Ivanka need to work with the state governments to win such things for women.
Alternatively, Mr. Trump and Ivanka can work with state and federal lawmakers to propose appropriate amendments to the Constitution for these issues to the states, not that the states are obligated to ratify such amendments.
Regarding equal pay, note that Jesus taught in Matthew 20:1-16, particularly verse 15, that a person, an employer in this Bible example, can do what they want with their money. We don’t need corrupt lawmakers trying to win votes by telling people how to spend their money.
Equal pay for equal work is already on the books. Years of experience is one of the criteria used to assess equality. I would think as long as equal pay laws are on the books, we would support the rule of law. Furthermore, Ivanka said a goal would be affordable child care. She did not mention government subsidized child care. Outrage for the statement seems a little premature. I certainly would not be outraged if the excuse of lack of affordable child care was no longer a valid argument for staying home and collecting welfare.
I had to explain to the folks I was watching the speeches with that the stat she noted was incorrect in that it lumped all jobs men and women to together instead of looking at individual job classes.
Her speech about the Trump organization and women employed by the trump organization needs to be made into a commercial...
Leni
That part of her speech was ridiculous.
Federal babysitters for rich Feminists.
This is not good.
Getting concerned we have the left against the far left.
If that happens, branch banks all across America will close by the hundreds