Obama declares National Equal Pay Day

washingtonexaminer.com ^ | 4/17/12 | Joel Gehrke

[ColdOne]

President Obama declared today National Equal Pay Day, as he called for equal pay for equal work between men and women. The day is designed to call attention to his campaign talking points, and chiefly to honor his own accomplishments on women's economic issues.

"I call upon all Americans to recognize the full value of women's skills and their significant contributions to the labor force, acknowledge the injustice of wage discrimination, and join efforts to achieve equal pay," Obama said in the declaration. Certainly, women's work (in and out of the home, as Hilary Rosen had to admit) is very significant and wage discrimination is unjust. But this declaration is about getting Obama reelected, and nothing else.

[MrB]

Thomas Sowell analyzed this perfectly.

If women get paid less than men [for the same work output], and minorities get paid less than whites [for the same work output],

why aren’t there companies out there hiring minority women and kicking the pants off their competition who are hiring the more expensive [for the same work output] white males?

Why not? Either because the premise is false or the employers are so racist and sexist they won’t capitalize on this huge competitive advantage.

Which is it, oh smarter-than-thou lefties?

[happyhomemaker]

I honestly think most posts about Obama’s comments are satire because they are so absurd and then I check the source and I realize that he is actually spouting this nonsense. ABO

[Chode]

everybody when offered a job is ALSO offered a wage, if you accept it, sit down, shut the hell up, and DO YOUR DAMN JOB!!!

[Psalm 144]

May Day seems early this year.

[Right Wing Assault]

Hey, barack, sounds like a good plan! How ‘bout you give me pay equal to yours? I know you have a lot saved up, so give some up to me.