The farcical nature of these ploys came out after House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi declared that Congress needed to pass the Fair Pay Act, because women average 23 percent lower incomes than men.Ī reporter from The Daily Caller then pointed out that the women on Nancy Pelosi’s own staff average 27 percent lower incomes than the men on her staff. When you compare women and men in the same occupations with the same skills, education, hours of work, and many other factors that go into determining pay, the differences in incomes shrink to the vanishing point - and, in some cases, the women earn more than comparable men.īut why let mere facts spoil the emotional rhetoric or the political ploys to drum up hysteria and collect votes? Read Diana Furchtgott-Roth of the Hudson Institute or Professor Claudia Goldin of Harvard, for example. Since women average fewer hours of work per year, and fewer years of consecutive full-time employment than men, among other differences, comparisons of male and female annual earnings are comparisons of apples and oranges, as various female economists have pointed out. The old - and repeatedly discredited - game of citing women’s incomes as some percentage of men’s incomes is being played once again, as part of the “war on women” theme. Not content with dividing classes and races, the Obama campaign is now seeking to divide the sexes by declaring that women are being paid less than men, as part of a “war on women” conducted by villains, from whom Obama and company will protect the women - and, not incidentally, expect to receive their votes this November. Christian Adams’s book, Injustice, which deals specifically with the Obama Justice Department’s overlooking voter fraud when those involved are black Democrats. ![]() Obama’s Department of Justice has been spreading the hysteria that states requiring photo identification for voting are trying to keep minorities from voting, and using the prevention of voter fraud as a pretext.īut anyone who doubts the existence of voter fraud should read John Fund’s book Stealing Elections or J. He has embraced the strident “Occupy Wall Street” movement, with its ridiculous claim of representing the 99 percent against the 1 percent. Now, with his presidency on the line and the polls looking dicey, President Obama’s re-election campaign has become more openly divisive than ever. Barack Obama had been a divider all his adult life, especially as a community organizer, and he had repeatedly sought out and allied himself with other dividers, the most blatant of whom was the man whose church he attended for 20 years, Jeremiah Wright. It was a noble hope, but one with no factual foundation. ![]() Among the people who are disappointed with President Obama, none has more reason to be disappointed than those who thought he was going to be “a uniter, rather than a divider” and that he would “bring us all together.”
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