[markomalley]

Of course, he could start by cleaning up his own hut.

He's going to have everybody working on a union pay scale before long. To hell with incentivising achievement.

[logic101.net]

This will of course not shrink the income gap between the ruling class and the slave class.

[TruthShallSetYouFree]

I’ve yet to get a coherent explanation from a liberal that refutes the following argument:

They claim that women get 77% as much as men for identical work. So, if I own a business and need an employee to write computer code or drive a cab or paint a house or shovel coal, and a woman will do the identical job for 23% less than a man, why wouldn’t I hire the woman? Every time.

In which case the demand for this identical, cheaper labor will be bid up, whereas the men would have to start offering their services cheaper or be priced out of the marketplace by women. It’s Economics 101, a course that Obama and his liberal cohort have avoided like the plague.

[Dilbert San Diego]

Can I ask a stupid question?

Are women really paid less than men for doing the same job?

It is against the law to pay women less than men for the same job. This goes all the way back to the Equal Pay Act of 1963, that it is unlawful to pay differently for the same work.

My stupid question revolves around the fact that such practice is already against the law, and has been for years. So, if this is really a major problem in today’s world, Obama and Eric Holder already have all the legal tools as their disposal, to fight this alleged disparity.

So where are all of the lawsuits, with women plaintiffs showing us how they are paid less than their male counterparts?

The courts should be full of lawsuits on their very issue, if this is still a problem in our country. And the laws and court rulings would back up any woman who can demonstrate such discrimination. So where are the lawsuits?

Sorry, I asked a series of stupid questions, not just one. But it baffles me for the president to occasionally throw out this statement that men are paid less than women, but at the same time, does not order his Justice Department to use the laws already in place to fight this alleged injustice.

[DuncanWaring]

A few years ago I saw a column by someone (Mike Adams?) about Equal Fatality day, which he said would be some particular day about eight or ten years down the road.

That would be the day on which female on-the-job fatalities would catch-up with male on-the-job fatalities for the year in which he wrote the column.

[17th Miss Regt]

President Obama is preparing to lean on companies that do business with the government with a pair of new executive actions designed to close the wage gap between men and women.

Hey, Mr. President! How about paying women equally on your own White House staff, ***hole?