Snogging his way to re-election
Republicans kiss votes from women goodbye
By Dana Milbank, WashPost, Published: April 8
This was not the way Republican leaders had planned to observe Equal Pay Day.
On the eve of Tuesday’s commemoration — the day symbolizing how far into 2014 women must work to catch up to the wages men earned in 2013 — a small newspaper in Louisiana, the Ouachita Citizen, reported that its congressman, Republican Rep. Vance McAllister, had been videotaped making out with a low-paid staffer.
McAllister, called the “Duck Dynasty” congressman because of his defense of the Robertson family’s Christian values, issued a statement asking for forgiveness from God, his family, his staff and constituents, and he declared that he still plans to run for reelection. And the woman, a part-timer paid less than $22,000 a year who also received $300 from McAllister to clean out his campaign office? She was terminated as the story broke, the congressman’s chief of staff told another Louisiana paper.
It takes chutzpah to observe Equal Pay Day by sacking the low-wage employee you’ve been snogging.
(More here.)
By Dana Milbank, WashPost, Published: April 8
This was not the way Republican leaders had planned to observe Equal Pay Day.
On the eve of Tuesday’s commemoration — the day symbolizing how far into 2014 women must work to catch up to the wages men earned in 2013 — a small newspaper in Louisiana, the Ouachita Citizen, reported that its congressman, Republican Rep. Vance McAllister, had been videotaped making out with a low-paid staffer.
McAllister, called the “Duck Dynasty” congressman because of his defense of the Robertson family’s Christian values, issued a statement asking for forgiveness from God, his family, his staff and constituents, and he declared that he still plans to run for reelection. And the woman, a part-timer paid less than $22,000 a year who also received $300 from McAllister to clean out his campaign office? She was terminated as the story broke, the congressman’s chief of staff told another Louisiana paper.
It takes chutzpah to observe Equal Pay Day by sacking the low-wage employee you’ve been snogging.
(More here.)
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a friend of mine is a manager for a private minnesota company that supplies fastener components to commercial distributors.
He recently called me to discuss a situation with a recent male college grad his company hired. The company is consolidating some of its Twin Cities offices in the east Metro. The hiree is buying a house in the far west Metro as a result of an upcoming wedding to his fiance. When the hiree was told about the office consolidation, he asked my friend if they could consolidate the offices closer to his living location in the far west Metro.
My advice to my friend was to tell the hiree he can buy a house closer to the new office location or he can quit and go find a job somewhere else. But, that the office is not going to be moved to accomodate the hiree's personal situation.
This is one example of how the left has indoctrinated young people with a sense of entitlement. the same is true with this whole equal pay for equal work stuff. I work with plenty of women at my company who make more than I do and we do the same job. There are other men who make less. This whole notion does not take in to consideration length of service. Should a newly hired professor to Mankato State be paid the same as a long-tenured professor? After all - equal pay for equal work, right? Why should a 30 year tenured professor make more than a newly hired professor working their first job out of college?
All this is effort is going to do is drive DOWN wages, not increase them. And of course, when that happens, the government willstep in to 'correct' the flaw of falling wages. So, government creates a problem about pay equity (or inequity) and then government steps in to correct the problem by passing laws about what level of pay people may earn so we'll have government mandated pay scales for men and women.
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