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发帖数: 29846 | 1 May 25, 2012 by Warner Todd Huston
As one of his first official acts, President Barack Obama made a great show
of his deep concern for the idea of equal pay for women by signing the Lilly
Ledbetter Act, a bill that was supposed to solve that inequity. Sadly, it
appears that Obama and his Democrats are only interested in forcing private
industry to observe equal pay for women while refusing to hold themselves to
that high standard.
In 2009 Obama got a lot of credit for how much he cares about women yet by
April of 2012 a study of what women were being paid in his White House
showed they were being paid less on average than the men in his office.
But it isn’t just Obama’s hypocrisy that has come to light on the issue of
equal pay for women in government. A new survey of the pay of staffers of
Senate Democrats shows that they too are paying their workers less than they
pay men.
The Free Beacon looked into the pay of Senate staffers and found that 37
Democrats staffers pay females in their offices less than they pay male
employees.
The Beacon found that men make about $6,500 more than females in the offices
of such notable Senators as Jeff Bingham (New Mex.), Tom Harkin (Iowa), Jon
Testor (Mont.), Dick Durbin (Ill.), Patty Murray (Wash.), Barbara Boxer (
Cal.), Diane Feinstein (Cal.), and many others.
The Beacon notes that one of the reasons that the numbers skew toward male
staffers is because chiefs of staff — usually the highest paid member of a
politician’s staff — are usually men. The Beacon notes that only 13
Senators have female chiefs of staff.
Yet, even as both the White House and Senate Democrats are violating their
own supposed principles they lambaste Republicans as perpetrating a “war on
women.”
Hypocrite, thy name is Democrat.
Since the Free Beacon did all the research, I won’t rehash it here. Go over
and read the full piece to see the whole sorry story. |
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