The Democrats' Equal Pay Ploy The shrewd political purpose of the Paycheck Fairness Act
On deck this week was a bill called the Paycheck Fairness Act, designed specifically by Democrats as a tool to use against Republicans who vote against it in upcoming elections.
Though the Senate leadership expected the bill to fail, they proceeded to waste taxpayers’ time and money by bringing it to the floor in the hopes of using it as a political weapon to help paint their nonexistent narrative that there is a war on women.
“If Congress passes the Paycheck Fairness Act, women are going to have access to more tools to claim equal pay for equal work,” proclaimed President Obama. “If they don’t — if Congress doesn’t act — then women are still going to have difficulty enforcing and pressing for this basic principle.”
That is hardly true. There are already three more-than-sufficient laws on the books to protect women: the 1963 Equal Pay Act and 1964 Civil Rights Act, both of which prohibit gender-based pay discrimination. In addition, in 2009, Congress passed the Lilly Ledbetter Act to ensure “equal pay for equal work.”
Perhaps a bigger question is this: Does a gender gap in pay even exist?
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- JanHopkins 2012/06/12 16:19:46
If there is still a gap after all these laws were passed then passing laws is a waste of time.reply - Mr. T 2012/06/12 14:55:15+1This was nothing more than a cheap ploy to divide women and get their vote. EVERYTHING the Dems do is nothing more than a carney show. And we already KNOW everything Obama says is 180 degrees from the truth...i.e. a LIE.reply
- Sport_Geoff 2012/06/12 14:24:14+1The one thing the liberals / democrats fail to mention when they get on their equal pay rant is that Pelosi and 4 other democratic congressmen / women pay their women staffers less than they pay their male staffers. But as Pelosi explained it, "the Senate and Congress is a different world" so evidently it must not apply.reply
- Reichstolz 2012/06/12 14:15:44+1I guess I don't understand who is controlling what wage you will work for. Is it not the responsibility of all employees to negotiate for the highest wages possible. If you are earning less that your counterparts it is no one's fault but your own. Gender has nothing to do with it.reply
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+2Just more of the 'take care of me' entitlement mentality of the left. God forbid you think for yourself and take action to benefit yourself!reply
- Reichstolz Evil 1 2012/06/12 14:19:41+2Agreed, it is amazing how little either side speaks of personal responsibility anymore.reply
