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Posted by Orange Blossom Special on Sun Sep 14 15:07:11 2008 they hate women don't they? Must've been that Indonesian public school that taught him that."Now is the time to keep the promise of equal pay for an equal day's work," Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama said August 28 in his convention acceptance speech. He told the crowd in Denver: "I want my daughters to have exactly the same opportunities as your sons." Obama's commitment to federally mandated pay equity stretches from the Rockies to Wall Street and beyond. And yet it seems to have eluded his United States Senate office. Compensation figures for his legislative staff reveal that Obama pays women just 83 cents for every dollar his men make. A watchdog group called LegiStorm posts online the salaries for Capitol Hill staffers. "We have no political affiliations and no political purpose except to make the workings of Congress as transparent as possible," its website explains. Parsing LegiStorm's official data, gleaned from the Secretary of the Senate, offers a fascinating glimpse at pay equity in the World's Greatest Deliberative Body. The most recent statistics are for the half-year from October 1, 2007 to March 31, 2008, excluding interns and focusing on full-time personnel. For someone who worked only until, say, last February 29, extrapolating up to six months' service simplifies this analysis. Doubling these half-year figures illustrates how a year's worth of Senate employees' paychecks should look. Based on these calculations, Obama's 28 male staffers divided among themselves total payroll expenditures of $1,523,120. Thus, Obama's average male employee earned $54,397. Obama's 30 female employees split $1,354,580 among themselves, or $45,152, on average. Again, on average, Obama's female staffers earn just 83 cents for every dollar his male staffers make. This figure certainly exceeds the 77-cent threshold that Obama's campaign website condemns. However, 83 cents do not equal $1.00. In spite of this 17-cent gap between Obama's rhetoric and reality, he chose to chide GOP presidential contender John McCain on this issue. Obama responded August 31 to Alaska Governor Sarah Palin's Republican vice-presidential nomination. Palin "seems like a very engaging person," Obama told voters in Toledo, Ohio. "But I've got to say, she's opposed -- like John McCain is -- to equal pay for equal work. That doesn't make much sense to me." Obama's criticism notwithstanding, McCain's payment patterns are the stuff of feminist dreams. McCain's 17 male staffers split $916,914, thus averaging $53,936. His 25 female employees divided $1,396,958 and averaged $55,878. On average, according to these data, women in John McCain's office make $1.04 for every dollar a man makes. In fact, all other things being equal, a typical female staffer could earn 21 cents more per dollar paid to her male counterpart -- while adding $10,726 to her annual income -- by leaving Barack Obama's office and going to work for John McCain. --- And then talks about a reason being that Obama's campaign is like a mens club. Change by 17 cents. |
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Posted by Easy on Sun Sep 14 15:22:59 2008, in response to Obama pays women less than men, posted by Orange Blossom Special on Sun Sep 14 15:07:11 2008. LOL. Don't you just love statistics? FTR you would not only have to know how many hours each person worked in order to calculate their pay rate you would have to have some idea of what they did in order to determine if their work was equal. |
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Posted by Orange Blossom Special on Sun Sep 14 15:28:39 2008, in response to Re: Obama pays women less than men, posted by Easy on Sun Sep 14 15:22:59 2008. I omitted a paragraph, which I alluded too in the end. You're right, SexistHussein doesn't hire many women at all. I guess they're too shrill and cause everyone to cross their legs.I thought paying less sounded less bad than the other angle we could take of Obama's change of running a corrupt good old boys network. Hows Rezko doing? |
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Posted by JournalSquare-K-Car on Sun Sep 14 15:50:34 2008, in response to Obama pays women less than men, posted by Orange Blossom Special on Sun Sep 14 15:07:11 2008. Ever hear the saying: there are three types of lies;Lies, Damn lies, and Statistics. And I have YET to loose a match against Andre Agassi. Bean counters like the ones behind this article are the type of people who send the government, and agencies like the MTA into the CHITHOLE. |
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Posted by Train Dude on Sun Sep 14 16:02:37 2008, in response to Re: Obama pays women less than men, posted by JournalSquare-K-Car on Sun Sep 14 15:50:34 2008. Blaming the messenger? Is it his party or his race that you are defending. If it was McCain's staff, your dick would be so hard your panty hose would be stretched out (a little). So what is it? Are you:[ ] a Racist? [ ] a hypocrite? [ ] an idiot? [ ] all of the above? |
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Posted by JournalSquare-K-Car on Sun Sep 14 16:10:07 2008, in response to Re: Obama pays women less than men, posted by Train Dude on Sun Sep 14 16:02:37 2008. Ok, now for some answers..."Blaming the messenger?" No, read my post. People who take rather arbitrary statistics and try to use them as proof of something are the ones behind this article. But there isn't enough info to say one is more prejudiced than the other. Ever hear of outliers? I am not defending anyone. My post has no bias what so ever. All I said was that those statistics mean nothing, really. And I can see how you can see me defending his party, but bringing race into this is idiotic on your part. And my dick wouldn't be hard because some statistics say something like this. However, is YOUR dick hard because of this "news"? And I am none of the above. |
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Posted by Train Dude on Sun Sep 14 16:21:27 2008, in response to Re: Obama pays women less than men, posted by JournalSquare-K-Car on Sun Sep 14 16:10:07 2008. You are so full of shit! If this were about McCain instead of husein obama, you'd be spanking your little monkey right now. |
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Posted by JournalSquare-K-Car on Sun Sep 14 16:29:57 2008, in response to Re: Obama pays women less than men, posted by Train Dude on Sun Sep 14 16:21:27 2008. EXCELLENT POST, TRAIN DUDE!!!YOU WIN!!! 
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Posted by Easy on Sun Sep 14 16:30:54 2008, in response to Re: Obama pays women less than men, posted by Train Dude on Sun Sep 14 16:21:27 2008. ...you'd be spanking your little monkey right now.Speaking of penis envy...does that play into your fixation with JS-K-Car? I recall last week you had several posts discussing anal sex with him. |
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Posted by Train Dude on Sun Sep 14 17:00:21 2008, in response to Re: Obama pays women less than men, posted by Easy on Sun Sep 14 16:30:54 2008. Still can't resist, can you rabies? You are clearly obsessed. |
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Posted by Chris R16/R2730 on Sun Sep 14 17:09:54 2008, in response to Re: Obama pays women less than men, posted by Easy on Sun Sep 14 15:22:59 2008. That's a classic argument used by conservatives to rebut feminist demands for equal pay. |
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Posted by Chris R16/R2730 on Sun Sep 14 17:11:44 2008, in response to Re: Obama pays women less than men, posted by JournalSquare-K-Car on Sun Sep 14 15:50:34 2008. Facts are meaningless. You could use facts to prove anything that's even remotely true! |
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