Social Justice, Social Justice, Social Justice – that’s all we hear from the Progressives now in control of the Federal Government. Part of that “social justice” mantra has been wail after wail that men get paid more than women. The President himself has pontificated through the years that Equal Pay MUST be the law and practice in the land. Great – nobody on the Right will dispute that, just willing to argue that most jobs aren’t the same and certainly the people filling them aren’t just equivalent cogs in a corporate machine either. But you know, once again, we see President Obama leading from behind even when it comes to one of his “empty words” policy ventures called Equal Pay. The White House has been whacked before in unequally paying men more than women. Fine – that was years ago. I’ll give him the mulligan – after all, he’s a man of his word (look, our gas and electricity bills are skyrocketing, right?). However, given years now (more than half a decade), has he fixed the problem he created in his own White House?
He CAN manage, competently, a few hundred workers within the boundaries of his own words, equal pay for equal work, right?
White House press secretary Josh Earnest acknowledged on Wednesday that “we still have more work to do” to close the pay gapbetween men and women working at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. “The White House has some improvement to make along that measure as well,” Earnest said, when asked why women at the White House make 88 cents for every dollar earned by a man.
President Obama often rakes Republicans over the coals for not backing equal-pay legislation, accusing GOP members of endorsing outdated economic policies
