Posted on 07/22/2016 5:45:48 PM PDT by CutePuppy
Donald Trump's eldest daughter introduced two progressive issues her father hasn't championed on the campaign trail: equal pay for women and making childcare more widely accessible.
"He will fight for equal pay, equal work, and I will fight for this too, right alongside of him," Ivanka Trump said in remarks introducing the GOP presidential nominee at the Republican National Convention Thursday night. ..... < snip >
..... "As president, my father will change the labor laws that were put in place at a time when women were up a significant portion of the workforce," she said. "He will focus on making quality child care affordable and accessible for all." ..... < snip >
(Excerpt) Read more at newsmax.com ...
..... 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 ran out of the room when she started with that garbage last night. I felt like I was watching the Democrat convention.
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.
Yes, I feel the same way — but we must remember this is politics now. Many things will be said on both sides that will not be top priority once the election is over. Looking at what is on Trump’s plate that needs to be fixed, I doubt that things like this will get any immediate attention.
But that is good. The big things first.
Publicly-funded childcare, like public education, is increasingly just demanding mainly white taxpayers to provide for mainly non-white children. There is definitely a racial side to the whole freebies issue...
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 ...
I much prefer Trump to Hillary, but this election basically shows how insignificant the religious right/true conservatives have become.
We’re not even in the picture anymore...
If Jack gets his job back but at 10% reduced pay for loss of current experience, then should Jill also get her job back but at 10% reduced pay for loss of current experience?
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.
Lots of companies help out mothers on, their own accord. It’s my understanding that Trump takes care of his own in such a manner.
No, government provided childcare would just be early indoctrination. I’m surprised the libs haven’t mandated surgically implanted speakers into the womb to start the programming earlier.
maybe you need to clean your glasses, and look again :)
You know in your heart it will turn out ok, but it doesn't make the experience any less terrifying.
Am I missing something? I don’t see Judeo-Christian values in either candidate here; it is like Rudy Giuliani against Bill de Blasio...
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.
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