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| Unexpectedly! Obama's White House Pays Womyn Less |
| 2012-10-19 |
| The president touts equal pay for equal work but hasn't practiced what he preaches with the women he has employed. It remains a mystery But it let President Obama launch into breathtaking hypocrisy regarding the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act. Lilly Ledbetter, which in Crowley's view ranked right up there with BenghaziGate as a pivotal issue, woke up one morning complaining that her male counterparts were getting paid more money for the same work and decided to sue for redress of this perceived grievance. After she was told she had missed the statutory deadline, her case made it to the Supreme Court, which said too bad, but you missed the deadline. So Congress passed the Fair Pay Act, which does more for lawyers than it does for women, merely extending the statute of limitations for pay-discrimination lawsuits from 180 days from the violation to 180 days after the last paycheck issued that was affected by that discrimination. Laws: written by lawyers for lawyers. When Katherine Fenton asked Obama what he intended to do about "women making only 72% of what their male counterparts earn," the question was based on a false premise and a false statistic -- one calculated by Diana Furchtgott-Roth, senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, by comparing all male with all female workers, regardless of experience, productivity, number of hours put in or length of service. The simple approach - just divide two numbers, suits the narrative, study over. When you factor these things in, Furchtgott-Roth says, women make about 95 cents to a man's dollar, which may explain why, since the Ledbetter Act was passed in January 2009, only 35 women have filed lawsuits under the new law. The question, and Obama's response, were calculated to highlight the Democratic campaign theme that Republicans are waging a war on women because they don't think that having taxpayers provide free contraceptives to Georgetown coeds will help us beat China. |
| Posted by:Bobby |
| #3 The womyn on the left don't seem to notice. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2012-10-19 17:02 |
| #2 Yea, but don't blame it on Obama---like he wouldn't be generous with public funds. It's, probably, Valerie's idea. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2012-10-19 11:47 |
| #1 ...but, but, they Care(tm). /sarc off |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2012-10-19 11:31 |