Posted on 06/05/2012 5:35:01 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) warned Tuesday that voting down the Paycheck Fairness Act would send the wrong message about women’s wages to corporate boards.
“It’s very hard to break through when you have the attitudes of elected officials, that equal pay for equal work is something they can’t bother with… it sends the wrong signal to all of those corporate boards,” said McCaskill on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.”
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Although one wonders why, if it is SO IMPORTANT, why didn't Obama and his punks PASS THIS WHEN THEY HAD COMPLETE CONTROL of the legislature and executive branches?
Did any bogus journalists at the Politico ask that question?
Well, taking a clue from Liawatha Warren, all one need do is to invent a minority lineage using the proverbial “my mama tole me” evidentiary standard. An automatic tickmark on the approved government affirmative action checklist and a guaranteed higher salary.
Ask Claire why Nancy Pelosi’s female staffers are paid 27-40% less than her male staffers?
Just askin’
The Gender Pay Gap is a Complete Myth
According to all the media headlines about a new White House report, there’s still a big pay gap between men and women in America. The report found that women earn 75 cents for every dollar men make. Sounds pretty conclusive, doesn’t it? Well, it’s not. It’s misleading.
According to highly acclaimed career expert and best-selling author, Marty Nemko, “The data is clear that for the same work men and women are paid roughly the same. The media need to look beyond the claims of feminist organizations.”
On a radio talk show, Nemko clearly and forcefully debunked that ultimate myth - that women make less than men - by explaining why, when you compare apples to apples, it simply isn’t true. Even the White House report: Women in America: Indicators of Social and Economic Well-Being explains why. Simply put, men choose higher-paying jobs.
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-505125_162-28246928/the-gender-pay-gap-is-a-complete-myth/
Some legislation is nothing more than a political play by the Democrats. They really don’t want it, but love the public play that they can get when they blame the republicans for its failure to pass.
They didn’t pass it then because they need the issue now. Duh. Fixing problems is not in the job description.
Since men make up only 45% of colleges, perhaps there should be some male equality in admissions?
Women have lower pay because many still like being mothers. Something the Femihags hate.
Pray for America
If this ever sees the light of day, if you are a man, you might as well forget ever getting paid based on your skills and hard work. You will automatically be paid less or equal to the lowest paid women in you position regardless if you bust your butt for 12 hours a day and she fills a chair and does her nails. It won’t matter. Companies will be too scared of the trial lawyers and the feds to risk paying any man even slightly more than a women in the same position.
Otherwise, it's not faaaaiiiirrrrr.
The only paycheck this affects are the trail lawyers.
Now let me get this straight. I can hire a man to do exactly the same job as a woman, but I’ll have to pay him more? So why does anyone hire men?
McCaskill is the one who’s been pushing for years to delete the NBC clause in the US Constitution for POTUS.
I do believe that there has been a published statistic the the US Senators (as a group) pay their female staffers less than the male staffers. Are they discriminating - no, it is a combination of maternal duties, overtime and time in the job. This is a red herring that the NOW and Democrat power groups have pounded for years without making the first real move to establish this.
This is also a bogus issue for another reason.
The Equal Pay Act of 1963 prohibits pay discrimination between men and women in the same jobs.
So, if this issue is really still a big problem in society, Obama and Eric Holder already have the law and legal process on their side, to investigate, start lawsuits, or do other things to deal with it.
There is not another law needed on this particular issue. If this is a problem, the law is already there. If this is a problem, the existing law needs enforcing. We don’t need Congress to pass yet another law.
The feds mandate that all defense contractors meet minority and women in the workplace quotas. It isn’t a secret. I was recently laid off from a job I did well at a DOD contractor so the company could keep more minorities and women. My record was spotless and I did everything the company ever asked of me and more for 33 years. But you don’t hear me whining about what is “fair.”
Suck on it Claire.
“I was recently laid off from a job I did well at a DOD contractor so the company could keep more minorities and women.”
That is just criminal, and happens all the time. As talent fled to the private sector, government had to interfere with bogus lawsuits to put those polices in place there as well. I’ve worked with some very competent women/minorities, but a larger number of useless tokens; the former have even more contempt for the latter than I do.
These policies make me leery of anyone in a “protected” class; until they prove themselves I just assume they are there because of their skin color or lack of a penis.
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