Posted on 04/09/2013 7:23:40 PM PDT by Olog-hai
President Barack Obama designated April 9 as National Equal Pay Day, even though 70 percent of White House staffers in the top-salary bracket were men, and male White House staffers earn on average 13 percent more than female staffers.
“To grow our middle class and spur progress in the years ahead, we need to address longstanding inequity that keeps women from earning a living equal to their efforts,” Obama said in the proclamation released Monday evening. “That is why I have made pay equity a top priority—from signing the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act days after I took office to cracking down on equal pay law violations wherever they occur. And to back our belief in equality with the weight of law, I continue to call on the Congress to pass the Paycheck Fairness Act.”
CNSNews.com reported on March 15 that 70 percent of White House staffers earning the maximum salary of $172,200 last year were men and 30 percent were women, according to the White House numbers posted on staff compensation. Further, men on the White House staff are paid $86,260.89 on average. Women on the White House staff are paid an average of $76,162.65. So men on the White House staff are paid about 13.26 percent more than women. Put another way, women earn 88.29 percent of what men earn. …
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I proclaim that Obama is f^cking a$$hole
There’s so much horse sh*t coming out of the White House these days that they really should hire a stablemaster.
With a bulldozer.
Yes, I started work in 2007. I got preggers a few months later, took a year off and came back after my extended child care leave. I made it back to work in 2009 but then I got preggers with Chuckie. I made it back to work in 2012 and thankfully our great nation had an understanding chief exec so that I got the same pay as my male counterpart who started in 2007. After all, isn’t that fair? I started in 2007, just like him. What do you mean that I’ve only worked 6 - 7 months.....it’s all about when I started!
Gloria Allred, Jr.
Mebbe ‘Diamond Jim’ Obammy should stick to scolding kids to be financially responsible.
Meanwhile, back at Burger King, his wife polishes off another triple-Whopper and carrot sticks.
Listen- they kleft aren’t even beign coy abotu hteir blatant hypocrisy any logner- they are infact shovign hteir obvious flop floppingi n our faces and lauighign at us because they know that nothign will ever be doen about it-
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