The tea party’s bad medicine
The country won’t find solutions to problems till the GOP insurgency runs its bitter course.
Senate Democrats forced a vote Tuesday on the Paycheck Fairness Act, designed to help close the wage gap between men and women.
It is a good bill that Democrats took up for the wrong reason: to score political points with women as a closely divided electorate faces critical election decisions.
June 10, 2012 - 8:04 AM
The only paycheck that would have been enhanced by the Paycheck Fairness Act would have been that of the trial lawyers, one of the biggest constituents of the Dems.
The GOP lawmakers are right, this law is not needed. The 1963 Equal Pay Act made equal pay for equal work the law of the land. The Paycheck Fairness Act mearly would make it easier to sue one’s employer, red meat for the trial lawyers.
The false charge that women don’t get equal pay does not take into account that women will drop out of the work force to raise children and tend to avoid high paying jobs such as in construction or as oil rig workers for example and take waitress and clerical jobs instead.
Both my daughter and son-in-law are doctors and the same age. She works part time and he works full time. The proponents of the Paycheck Fairness Act would point to the differences in their incomes as an example of gender pay discrimination. They used just such raw census bureau statistics that did not analyze income differences between the sexes to make their point. There will be those that will deny this important fact but it’s true.
There is at least one study that shows young professional single women actually make more than their single male counterparts of the same age according to the WSJ.
YEA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
WONDERFUL!!!!!!!!!!
Here we have a nation approaching $16T in debt with a warehouse of inefficient, redundant government programs… and the elites on the RTEB defend the status quo.
For the last decade many have tried to make the point there is not a dimes worth of difference between the dems and GOP. And in alot of instances, they were right. When the dems were in power, the nation increased spending mightily on social programs and threw a few crumbs toward defense. When the GOP was in power, they’d increase spending for defense and intelligence and throw a few crumbs toward social programs to placate the dems.
And election after election, the wonderful moderates would retain office. Little would change except cycle after cycle the fed government got larger. Obama and the radicals overplayed their hand in 09/10 and the nation awakened in the form of the TeaParty. Moderates will only make sure the political pendulum stays stuck way left of center. That’s not what the nation needs nor what the people want. The Nov 2010 election was the opening salvo. Tuesday’s results in San Jose, San Diego and Wisconsin show that government on all levels will become accountable, sustainable and that civil servants will live up to that term.
The gravy train, engineered by career politicians aka moderates, has gone off the tracks. The Teaparty and others will replace it with something with a future that actually works for the nation…the Land of the free!
A wage “fairness” bill? How ridiculous and how it underscores the liberal’s poor understanding of free market economics and job growth. Only the Republicans will can foster an environment that let’s us move toward the economy’s full potential output by reducing tax rates and regulation and constraining spending to a sustainable level.
So you can vote for Democrat’s touchy feely legislation that lacks all empirical support and adds barriers to hiring OR you can vote Republican to move us toward prosperity again.
One person’s “obstructionist” is another’s brake on asanine, faulty, destructive policy.
But #3!!! There’s no such thing as free markets! Capitalism & markets are but corporate welfare! They destroy the middle class while making the poor, poorer and the rich richer! It’s unfair!
Didn’t you get the memo?
Oh…& I left out, it’s Plutocracy. (I got that from Wikipedia).
I wonder if the Paycheck Fairness Act would address the unfairness of two-tier wage systems, like the government/union-approved scheme seen in Detroit:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/13/business/in-detroit-two-wage-levels-are-the-new-way-of-work.html?_r=1
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=146143334
This is yet another example of how today’s young are the “screwed generation”: http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/06/04/it-can-happen-here-europe-s-screwed-generation-and-america-s.html.
Didn’t we see something recently about female staffers to Dems being paid less than their male counterparts?
Yes Michael we did.
I remember when Clinton succeeded Bush 41, he paid his press secretary DiDi Meyers considerably less than the outgoing Marlon Fitzwater. No doubt the opening salvo in the war on women!!!!
To #8 (Michael): Yep. Women working for Senate Democrats in 2011 had an average salary of $60,877, whereas male staffers made $6,500 more. According to Nancy Pelosi, though, this is okay, as the Senate is “another world”.
http://news.yahoo.com/pelosi-gives-senate-democrats-pay-women-less-pass-182037278.html
#9 & 10 – I thought so. Seems to be yet another case of Dems saying “Do as I say, not as I do.”