Barack Obama; Not So Equal Pay For Women
by Big Dog on Sep 14, 2008 at 20:59 Political
The feminists out there in America foam at the mouth when the discussion turns to equal pay for equal work. They are upset that men make more for the same jobs and they assure us that Barack Obama is the man to solve this riddle. Interestingly, these are the same feminists who have allowed sexist attacks against Sarah Palin and, in fact, have joined in on them. Yes, feminism is only good if the feminist is a liberal.
Obama’s website discusses the disparity in pay between the sexes and, of course, Obama will fix this. He even told the world during his coronation speech:
“I want my daughters to have exactly the same opportunities as your sons.”
It seems that Obama wants his daughters to have the same opportunities as your sons but he does not want anyone else’s daughters to have that equality. At least this is the case with the women who work on his Senate Staff. Based on their salaries, Obama pays the sons working for him more than the daughters:
Based on these calculations, Obama’s 28 male staffers divided among themselves total payroll expenditures of $1,523,120. Thus, Obama’s average male employee earned $54,397.
Obama’s 30 female employees split $1,354,580 among themselves, or $45,152, on average.
Why this disparity? One reason may be the underrepresentation of women among Obama’s highest-compensated employees. Of Obama’s five best-paid advisors, only one was a woman. Among his top 20, seven were women.
On average, Obama’s female staffers earn just 83 cents for every dollar his male staffers make. This figure certainly exceeds the 77-cent threshold that Obama’s campaign website condemns. However, 83 cents do not equal $1. In spite of this 17-cent gap between Obama’s rhetoric and reality, he chose to chide GOP presidential contender John McCain on this issue. NRO
Now this is bad enough but while Obama and his feminist surrogates were discussing McCain as a Neanderthal who would relegate women to second class status, back alley abortions and lower pay, a funny thing happened. The same audit showed that McCain pays the women in his office more than the men. He pays them $1.04 for each dollar a man makes.
So tell me again which of these candidates is all talk and which one lives what he says…
Here is a clue for the liberals who are worried about equal pay. Join the military. It is a great job, you learn great skills and everyone of the same grade and time in service gets the exact same amount of pay regardless of what sex they happen to be.
Or go to work for John McCain.
Tags: equal pay, McCain, Obama, sexism
Deroy Murdock just points out that Obama has fewer women in higher positions than the McCain office. His figures say nothing about equal pay for equal work so when he makes the argument that Obama is a hypocrite he’s stretching the truth badly. You and everybody else who linked and quoted his crappy journalism are stretching too.
It would be a more legitimate argument if there was actually evidence of women working for Obama doing equal work for less pay than men. From what I can tell there is not.
So Obama does not trust women to be in high places?
Considering how his wife alienated Hillary….
I bet he hopes his children grow up to community organizers.
He probably only has a few women in high positions because they are they only ones who are so in the tank for BO that they don’t mind being called “sweetie”.