Obama Signs Fair Pay Act, Can He Now Be Sued?
President Obama signed his first bill yesterday, the Fair Pay Bill. This bill will make it easier for people to sue their employers if they feel that they are not getting paid properly and they believe that this discrepancy in pay is not a result of them being inferior workers orless productive workers but rather based solely on the fact that they belong to a politically acceptable victimization group.
Don’t get me wrong, I am not saying that all races or genders don’t deserve the same pay if they do the same work, but if you are not equally productive you do not deserve to be paid the same as someone who is more productive. This bill will make it easier for people who are less productive and thus make their employers less money to sue their employer.
This is what our dear leader had to say when signing this bill:
It is a story of women across this country still earning just 78 cents for every $1 men earn, women of color even less, which means that today in the year 2009, countless women are still losing thousands of dollars in salary, income, and retirement savings over the course of a lifetime
Like I said above, I don’t have a problem with that statement. Anybody who can do the same job and is as productive as another should be paid about the same. The reason I say “about” is because I feel that seniority with a company still holds some merit. A person who has been with a company for years deserves to be paid more than somebody who is doing the same job who is a recent hire. Experience still counts for something. It should take time and dedication to rise through the ranks and pay scale.
There is a slight problem with President Obama’s statement, or rather his actions.
Women who worked on Obama’s Senate staff last year, however, were themselves paid on average 78 cents for every dollar a man was paid, according to data last year from the Report of the Secretary of the Senate.
President Obama doesn’t live up to the standard that he is now demanding that the private sector of America lives up to. This man, dear leader, is the very definition of hypocrite. He sits there and signs legislation regulating the lives of ordinary Americans and he doesn’t even live up to the expectations that he is requiring us to live up to.
This begs the question, can Barack Obama now be sued?
America's Watchtower 
Nah, Obama’s PR machine is too powerful to let that get any traction. If nothing happens with dirty land deals, political maneuvers, links to domestic terrorists, this won’t even be brought up.
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I am going to approach this with skepticism since it is only CNS that is reporting it and their source of numbers is suspect in my mind (remember: lies, damn lies, and statistics).
I remember a similar accusation during the campaign and it was noted that McCain had more women in higher level positions in his campaign. While that was a good counterargument. It did bring up other questions that were not explored.
I have a couple questions in my mind. First, are they comparing apples and oranges? Their results are stated like they averaged the wages of the two groups and compared. This could be the same scenario as what was brought up in the campaign. Second, who did the hiring, firing, and wage decisions? Are these employees of the government? Were these people hired by Obama or an agent on his behalf?
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Obama, a hypocrite? Stop it! And once again the word “fair” is being misused. Meritocracy does not fit into Obama’s socialist, capitalism-killing policies.
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