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overnment needs a mediator. The stakeholders virtually all agree the General Schedule (GS) system needs to be replaced but each needs to see something different for the planning to move forward. The July 15 congressional hearings made two key points clear: No one defended the GS system, but no one is ready to take the lead to develop a replacement system. With budget cuts through 2021, government could be stuck with a deteriorating work environment. Another point is increasingly clear — in the current political climate the GS salary ranges will not be increased by more than a nominal percentage...

This is great (and true), and it illustrates the ignorant economics of the left. If it was as simple as liberals purport it to be then could've made the pay gap in his own house $0.00 and he could've done it yesterday....

Earlier today, Glenn Kessler predicted that Democrats would find the 77-cent lie too irresistible to jettison. Perhaps a dose of their own medicine might cure them. The National Republican Senatorial Committee did a little research into how Senate Democrat incumbents running in 2014 do on the issue that has been tailor-made for their “war on women” campaign strategies. Five 2014 Democratic contenders for the Senate come up short — even shorter than the White House, and two of them fall below the 77-cent line: It turns out President Obama isn’t the only hypocritical Democrat, in fact Senate Democrats have their...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EzJUYfwKegA If that isn't bad enough the little twerp took a page from race hustlers, like Sharpton and Jackson, saying republicans are racist for not supporting equal pay! This pay gap farce is just another ploy by the divide, destroy and conquer regime. The pay gap between mean and women is not 77 cents its 93 cents depending on how it's calculated. I will bet there is a good explanation as to why there is a difference in pay in many cases. No one makes the same amount of money in most cases because some people take a salary while others get paid...

When President Obama issued a statement last week marking the 47th anniversary of the Equal Pay Act, the federal legislation that sought to end gender-related wage discrimination, he noted ongoing wage inequities and the fact that women continue to earn only 77 cents for every dollar earned by men. ...

Courtesy of modem technology, we’ve been treated to videotape evidence of a high school "hazing" that happened at a north suburban high school. An event that was supposed to be an initiation for junior girls ended up sending five of them to the hospital, one student needing ten stitches in her head. Not surprisingly, alcohol was involved. Someone, probably someone of legal age, was thoughtful enough to provide a keg of beer. Other festive props included pig intestines, feces and paint thinner. In an e-mail to me (mikebates@prodigy.net), a reader reports hearing a TV news analyst provide a possible cause...