sshhhh, conservatives don't like the word equality...
Equality equals taking from them
Every Republican Senator Said NO To Equal Pay For Women. Do YOU Support Equal Pay For Equal Work ?
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Every Republican Senator Said NO To Equal Pay For Women. Do YOU Support Equal Pay For Equal Work ?
An election-year Democratic measure designed to ensure that women don't face pay discrimination was blocked Tuesday by Republicans who complained that the bill was politically inspired and would reward trial lawyers at the expense of employers.
The motion, which needed 60 votes to succeed, got only 52, not one from a Republican.
President Obama issued a statement criticizing Republicans for putting "partisan politics ahead of American women and families."
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nevada, standing at a news conference with pay equity advocate Lilly Ledbetter, accused Republicans of "wanting to stick their heads in the sand" about the longstanding issue of women being paid less than men. "But it's clear where Democrats stand," Reid said.
The bill, which Democrats said would close loopholes in the 1963 Equal Pay Act, would require employers to prove that differences in pay were related to job performance, not gender; would prevent employers from forbidding employees from sharing salary information with each other; and would allow women who believe they were discriminated against to sue for damages.
Democrats acknowledged privately that they expected to make political gains with women by pressing to close the pay gap, which they said has women earning just 77 cents on the dollar compared with men.
Republicans, fearful that Democrats were trying to portray them as insensitive to women, argued that they oppose pay discrimination but disagree with the Democrats' bill, which was written without their input. Republicans remained largely silent about the issue in the days leading up to the vote, even as Democrats, led by the president, made an all-out push for the legislation.
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Wilde~MoonChild ™ 2012/06/12 14:18:38
And what exact stereotype are you trying to broad-brush paint me into? Do you think that Bush actually consulted with me, before he did that "9-11 was an inside job" thing? What exactly are you accusing ME of? I can't be "guilty," just because of whatever group you assume I must be a part of. "If the shoe fits, then wear it?" The shoe does not fit me.
Re-read my prior post . . . or get someone to read it to you, and concentrate on what it says.
I don't think GW did any 911 inside thing . . . He merely abrogated his responsibility of defending this nation . . . . and then tried to blame it all on Clinton.
Tell me . . . Why are Right Wingers so unprincipled?
Why can't they just man up and take responsibility for their own actions?
Gawd . . . . I am soooooo glad I'm not a Right Wing Nut Job.
On talk radio, some guy called in saying he was for Ron Paul. This was months ago. Jason Lewis said that Ron Paul could more easily win the general election than the Republican Party, because the Republican Party is the War Party. Somebody else called in saying we vote for the Democrats and the wars don't end. We vote for the Republicans, and the spending doesn't end. Jason Lewis even went so far as to say, Ron Paul may be the candidate most likely to beat Obama in November. But now it seems Jason Lewis is in the tank for O'Romney, since he appears to our Party's nominee, and so many "far right nut jobs" ha...
On talk radio, some guy called in saying he was for Ron Paul. This was months ago. Jason Lewis said that Ron Paul could more easily win the general election than the Republican Party, because the Republican Party is the War Party. Somebody else called in saying we vote for the Democrats and the wars don't end. We vote for the Republicans, and the spending doesn't end. Jason Lewis even went so far as to say, Ron Paul may be the candidate most likely to beat Obama in November. But now it seems Jason Lewis is in the tank for O'Romney, since he appears to our Party's nominee, and so many "far right nut jobs" have this absurd NWO strategy of "anybody but Obama." Perhaps anybody, including somebody with nearly the same policies, as Obama, as long as it's somebody who has a different face, but still is a NWO puppet.
Thanks a lot GOP, for re-electing Obama? Or re-electing Obam-ney? I've seen a lot of people around SH, saying if they can't get Ron Paul, they will go with Libertarian Gary Johnson, because they, like me, can't stand the NWO puppets. I'm not so sure that I can "hold my nose" again, and what if it turns out to be Romney who is unelectable? What if Gary Johnson gets more votes than Romney? That would prove Jason Lewis's old theory right, that Ron Paul would have been the better Republican choice to throw out Obama, and thus by the GOP doing dirt to Ron Paul, their own internal corruption and cheating, they have lost another election and the country, proving both Parties to be one-and-the-same Party, both corrupt. Republicans don't want Ron Paul, because they want somebody who will play the dirty political game, rather than somebody who will try to save the country.
The only reason I ever voted for either Bush, was to vote against the evil DemocRAT. Neither one was conservative enough for me in the Primary election. They say they are pro-life, but do the abortions ever end?
You said you are a Moderate. So you are one of those people who stand for nothing, and stand in the middle of the freeway, waiting for some semi- to run you over? What do moderates stand for? Nothing? Same old status-quo corruption?
Now about the "Equal Pay" thing, I can't fault the GOP for voting against it, because I probably would have voted against it, had I been in their place. I wouldn't vote for any bill that I haven't read, and if I read it, I probably would find plenty in it to disgust me, so I do believe that the GOP made the right call on this. They aren't going to vote against a bill with supposedly such a "good name" to it, for just no reason. I don't need to fault the GOP for this, because I can find SO MUCH ELSE TO FAULT THE GOP FOR.
Yes, i am a Moderate. But that does not mean I "stand for nothing."
I stand for moderation, pragmatism, and the implementation of sensible solutions . . . And I stand in opposition to extremism of every stripe.
I strongly favor the second amendment, and I believe that citizens have the right to protect themselves . . . especially against domestic terrorism, which rears it's ugly head from time to time, and mostly in the form of some delusional self-described "Patriot" who thinks he is protecting his ideals.
I stand firmly in favor of a woman's right to choose. I think it's horrible that so many "individualists" think that it's just fine that government should command a woman to have a baby, whether she wants to or not. They would have government rob a woman of this very private decision. That's what Hitler did, and it's an anti-American and an anti-Common-Sense sentiment.
Ron Paul and the Libertarians have some interesting but completely unworkable ideas. But I'm not into impractical BS. I'm all about dealing with reality and making it better.
For instance, most Libertarians don't like the idea of taxation, But the fact is that taxation is this nation primary source of revenue . . and we need revenue.
Duh . . .
Are you opposed to the Big Brother government intrusive "Patriot Act?" Were has the opposition went, now that tyrant Obama is wrecking the country? I never agreed with the Patriot Act, especially when I learned that 9-11 was an inside job, which very well could implicate both Bush and Cheney.
Ron Paul makes more sense than you know. And if he's "too much out there," I am quite sure the liberal wicked Congress will balance him out. No President gets their way all the time on every issue, well except maybe for narcissist tyrant Obama when he becomes dictator-for-life. Oops. I suppose they want me to say "President"-for-life, even though he is not allowed to run for the office of President, since he wasn't born here. Yes, I'm a pro-lifer, truther, birther, and a Ron Paul supporter conservative\libertarian.
Most of the taxes are unconstitutional, the 16 Amendment was never ratified, the original 13th Amendment was mysteriously replaced, and most taxes would be completely unnecessary if government was limited to its constitutional allowances. Thje New World Order criminal elitists do NOT need any more theft from the once-hard-working American people. But now, so many of us are unemployed, due to the government meddling, endless bailouts, and rampant economic fraud of this "government."
A tiny fishlike fetus is no more a human being then are one of your sperm cells. And just think how many trillions of them you flushed down the toilet over the years. If those are all babies, then you’re a mass murderer that would put Hitler to shame.
And you’re a Birther too? . . . A mass murdering Birther.
. . . You must be proud.
And no, taxes are not unconstitutional. Nothing in the Constitution prohibits taxation.
"fetus" is Latin that simply means "little one."
Life begins at conception, but I see it more as a continuum, for God speaks about people, even before their conception, for God knows the future. That's a reason I don't believe in use of "birth control," for it ought to be up to God, the author of life.
Married people, ought not to waste their seed, if they have opportunity to "let life happen."
So what exactly do you have against Birthers, besides your incoherent rant?
You belong in a zoo.
Yes, I have read the Constitution. And no where in it does it say Right Wing Nut jobs are worth a damn.
And it's not my fault you flushed so much of your "seed" down the toilet.
Remove your head from that warm smelly place.
What are you barking about?? Either say something that has a point of pound sand...
As I said in the group, the fact is that one's job quality is measured by individuals who may think that you're not doing that hot of one, it doesn't matter what you have between your legs.
two important points of this bill:
'An election-year Democratic measure designed to ensure ' which suggests its political grandstanding.
and:
would require employers to prove that differences in pay were related to job performance, not gender; would prevent employers from forbidding employees from sharing salary information with each other; and would allow women who believe they were discriminated against to sue for damages.
just one more bone for the trial lawyer bar...
other than that, its a loaded bill, similar to the 'have you stopped beating your wife yet' bill.
why am i not surprised to see a resident democrat shill, shilling for the democrats?
its your job to believe in solely poolitical legislation.
keep up the good work!
just like when Obama uses the word 'fair'.
it means whatever you soft headed libs want/need it to mean.
on a more important note, don't you think it might be time for Dingy Harry to work on the economy rather than these pointless bills that are noting but posturing?
maybe Dingy could go nuclear on this and get it passed?
nah. he doesn't care.
Women don't deserve equal pay.
I never heard about how it would " prevent employers from forbidding employees from sharing salary information with each other."
I wonder if that's true.
If it is true, it's way too much government intrusion.
People sharing salary information just leads to jealousies in the work place. No need for that.
is sueable even a word?
what if someone gets hired at a much higher salary than anyone else? what good is that to the morale of everyone else?
if anything, you dopes, it'll push down salaries for everyone, not 'lift up' women.
this is goofy legislation. and a heavily loaded question.
Adjective
sueable (not comparable)
That can be sued.
Using the 2011 annual report of White House staff salaries that was submitted to Congress, an $11,000 difference is clear between the median female employee salary and the median male employee salary.
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