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Why Does Obama's White House Pay Women Less?
Topic Started: Oct 19 2012, 08:46 AM (587 Views)
Brewster
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I did some digging, Pat, and as with many of these things, it seems the truth is somewhere in between, but leaning to the Dem's side.

According to this doc, the Pres sets the salaries, but the final authority belongs to Congress:

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2012 Annual Report to Congress on White House Staff

Since 1995, the White House has been required to deliver a report to Congress listing the title and salary of every White House Office employee.
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Berton
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So your left wing propaganda source was wrong?

How many times have the Congress changed the salaries? It looks like Obama made the decision and women are paid less to me.

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Pat
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I doubt Obama went out of his way to deny women equal pay, my guess is that like in most public and private employment circles, the practice of paying women less has existed since women entered the labor force. But what it does show is that while Obama has publicly avowed the he does not discriminate based on sex, he also did not do anything proactive along these lines.
Edited by Pat, Oct 20 2012, 12:05 AM.
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Thumper
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In my line of work, women in gereral were a pain in the ass as employees. I cold get men to travel out into the dessert to blow somethging up, but women generally had home committments to keep them from traveling. I had one women refuse to travel because of a bicycle tour and another because she didn't believe in Napalm Bombs. The men, you told them to pack up and go, the women, not so easy.
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Berton
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And Obama pays women less than men in the Whitehouse.
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Mountainrivers
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So, are the jobs comparable or not? That would seem to me to be the basis on which to determine pay.
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Berton
Oct 20 2012, 12:36 AM
And Obama pays women less than men in the Whitehouse.
That's about as stupid as you can get without knowing what each employee does.
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Brewster
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MR, I don't think you realize just how stupid he can get.
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Pat
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Good question Neal, we need some form of comparison to make any final judgement. Not saying this is the case, but generally the claim that the male's job required more skill or what have you generally is easy to rebuke under cross examination. And filing a lawsuit to right the wrong is full of landmines, not the least of which are repercussions that lead to losing the job.
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Obie talks the talk but he doesn't walk the walk. Romney made sure women were a part of his administration and got equal pay.
Some of these libs want to argue that Obie's women aren't capable of doing what the men do. Romney would say just the opposite.
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