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Obama: Pay gap ‘morally wrong’
The Hill ^ | - 07/30/13 05:00 AM EDT | By Peter Schroeder

Posted on 07/30/2013 3:42:05 AM PDT by onyx

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To: onyx

Pay gap morally wrong coming from a man who spends about $50,000,000.00 bucks on “vacations” every month of the year?!

From his lips to God’s ears, I pity him.


101 posted on 07/30/2013 5:58:52 PM PDT by American in Israel (A wise man's heart directs him to the right, but the foolish mans heart directs him toward the left.)
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To: combat_boots
Jees. The guy has some nerve.

I'll say!

102 posted on 07/30/2013 6:05:14 PM PDT by onyx (Please Support Free Republic - Donate Monthly! If you want on Sarah Palin's Ping List, Let Me know!)
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To: Recompennation

You’re right on ALL counts.
God bless and keep you.


103 posted on 07/30/2013 6:05:54 PM PDT by onyx (Please Support Free Republic - Donate Monthly! If you want on Sarah Palin's Ping List, Let Me know!)
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To: 1010RD

Socialism is Feudalism with gun play.


104 posted on 07/30/2013 6:06:25 PM PDT by American in Israel (A wise man's heart directs him to the right, but the foolish mans heart directs him toward the left.)
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To: onyx

I know who would win the fight if they TRIED. The problem is that one side is so violently evil that they will even butcher children to get what they want. The other side just wants to cook mashed potatoes for the fam. >_<


105 posted on 07/30/2013 6:54:39 PM PDT by Wanderer99
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To: onyx

Funny how lefties embrace moral arguments about the minimum wage but brush aside moral argmuments relating to matters of human life like abortion and contraception.


106 posted on 07/30/2013 7:07:00 PM PDT by Yardstick
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To: onyx
Years ago in 1980 I came out of the Navy after my 4 year stint. Jobs were hard to find. I had the full GI Bill so I took a VOC/TECH Class and worked part time at minimum wage in the V.A. work study program at a National Cemetery. This included mowing and when called upon digging a grave with pick and shovel. It fed my family. Want more money? Take another job. At one point I had three.
107 posted on 07/30/2013 7:07:49 PM PDT by cva66snipe (Two Choices left for U.S. One Nation Under GOD or One Nation Under Judgment? Which one say ye?)
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To: onyx

They’re detached utilitarians when human life is at stake but change the subject to economics and suddenly they become Cotton Mathers. Suddenly they see nothing but good and evil.


108 posted on 07/30/2013 7:11:28 PM PDT by Yardstick
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To: onyx

I look at Obama’s unearned life of luxury and that makes me think of the gap between him (who is destroying the country), and the American people.


109 posted on 07/30/2013 7:25:31 PM PDT by Moonman62 (The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
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To: Bob Ireland; MinuteGal; seekthetruth
"...How does all this end well?..."

Well? We are pretty sure that it doesn't end well, Bob. We can only hope that the struggle is short and not too bloody .................................................................. FRegards

110 posted on 07/30/2013 8:26:53 PM PDT by gonzo ( Buy more ammo, dammit! You should already have the firearms ... FRegards)
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To: onyx

I always thought the income inequality was a good thing.

Suppose you apply for jobs at two different companies.
At the first company, everyone makes $40,000.
At the second company, the starting salary is $30,000 and there are people making six or seven figures. One guy just broke 8 figures.

You plan to make a career at one of these two companies.

The work is the same at both companies. Do you take the job with no pay inequality, or the one with a huge pay differential?


111 posted on 07/30/2013 8:36:10 PM PDT by gitmo ( If your theology doesn't become your biography it's useless.)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Must be some world class economists there


112 posted on 07/30/2013 9:55:43 PM PDT by Plain Old American (Remember who said what; Remind those who don't Remember; Vote and take a friend to the polls)
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To: American in Israel

Excellent and eventually it comes down to force. They’ll use laws as long as they get what they want.


113 posted on 07/31/2013 5:39:45 AM PDT by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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To: blackdog

“Workers would have to make $10.70 now to make an amount equal to the purchasing power of 1968’s $5.65 minimum wage.”
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I hadn’t read this until I read your post, that is really stupid. It is stupid to get the 1968 wage so wrong and it is REALLY stupid to think that $10.70 now would be equal to $5.65 in 1968 in purchasing power. It won’t even equal $1.07 in 1968 in purchasing power. I bought a NEW 1967 Mustang for less than $3,000. In 1968 I was making $475 or so a month and having a ball, spending most of my income on the Mustang, beer and women and just throwing the rest away. If I had been earning $5.65 an hour I would most likely have partied myself to death.


114 posted on 08/01/2013 9:59:18 AM PDT by RipSawyer
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