Thank You GOP Congressmen For Looking Out For Corporate America

Oh, I'd love to see that one! Then the people of this country would maybe see the Republicans in true form!

That's funny since it was the democrats who kept saying Sarah Palin belonged in the kitchen. 2008 was a great year for showing the true colors of democrats.

Can you point me to some Democrats saying Sarah Palin belonged in the kitchen? I recall quite a few criticisms of her, but that one doesn't come to mind.

I don't think I could have exampled the base of the GOP better than you did. 100% accurate!!!

So what you're saying is that you don't think women should get the pay they deserve, but rather that they should get exorbitant amounts of money IN EXCESS of what they earned just because a male counterpart may have made more. In other words, you don't want women to get pay equal to men, but rather to get paid millions more because they sued over their unequal pay.

There should not be caps taskr. It's so ridiculous that people would even say that. You think it's fine to just slap companies on the wrist for treating women like shyt? How about you take .21 cents for every hour of your life that you have worked and give it to a woman that is doing the same exact job you are but, for a smaller amount of money? It's only a little less than $6,000 over 13 years.

No I said basically that companies should be held accountable for their illegal actions. Come on the GOP loves to punish crime with the maximum sentence (that's why I vote for republican judges) but, with companies they want to coddle them and hold their little hands like babies. At least a criminal doesn't have 50 lawyers on staff telling him that he's breaking the law. What's wrong is the GOP now against harsh punishments for crime? Cause if they are I'm not voting for those GOP judges anymore.

You beat me to it on that one bestboy. Congress needs a serious paycut. Of course THEY are the ones who have to give themselves a paycut so that's just never going to happen. In fact they haven't taken a paycut since the Great Depression.

We could just have the GOP Congressmen work for 79 cents an hour and see if they like it much.

Why just the GOP? Why not the whole Congress?

I also think women don't fight for higher pay from the start. I started a thread discussing just that. Most women I know take what they are offered when getting a new job instead of negotiating for a higher salary. I think many are uncomfortable "rocking the boat" and so they don't argue when they get a raise that is less than they want or deserve.

I think the two of you are living in the stone ages. I worked construction for godsakes a "man's dangerous job" I climbed up on roofs of houses that 3 plus stories with bad pitches. Sure a woman can sue a company but, according to taskr they shouldn't be allow to collect that much money and that is just the most asinine thing that I have heard. Yes we should allow companies to continue to break the law and have no real reason to stop doing it.

Blue, the problem is finding out that you aren't paid the same amount as other male counterparts. In many cases these corporations make employees sign documents that state that you could be fired if you tell people what you make. The level of danger in a job doesn't always equal the pay of a profession, and I disagree that men take more risk than women do.

You mean the House and Senate are both controlled by Democrats but unfortunately that doesn't seem to matter much and won't matter, regardless of which party has the majority, as long as they keep their archaic procedures such as the filibuster in place and keep abusing it. I doubt it will happen but I sure hope they change it in January, which is the only time they can do so. Annie

Remember that's a two way street. The likelihood of it changing are slim to none. The Democrats like that particular power when they are not in power as well. They won't be able to do it in January even if they wanted to.

I'd go along with that but, I think each time a company is sued over it the fine should become bigger and bigger since the same is true for any criminal.

Doing the right thing will never happen when those that are suppose to do it are driven by greed.

Thank you very much! At least there are some very smart men in this world!

Yay! Yet another one who gets it! LOL! Thank you, God! And thank you K46620! Maggiepie "Life is hard. It's harder if you're stupid." ~ John Wayne

Those laws are violating the rights of employees and employers. Freedom of association includes freedom not to associate, for whatever reason. While we may find race discrimination by private individuals and companies to be morally wrong, we have no right to legislate our view of morality on others.

Ah, Epicure. Always wonderful to hear your voice of sanity, reason & wisdom (& KNOWLEDGE!). I'm not going to stay here; I just dropped in briefly to watch the conservatives here stir up the prickly scorpions. So much fun! They remind me of John Cleese at his most apoplectic in "Fawlty Towers." They're just so funny when they can't bully us any more! Keep it up! Now...back to the Real World. Hee! Maggiepie "Life is hard. It's harder if you're stupid." ~ John Wayne

Republicans live in the past and as the continue to do so the world passes them by and they don't even realize that the world has changed. Telling a woman that a man deserves a raise and promotion over a her because he has a family to raise (the woman is a single mother) is not only sexist it's ridiculous. I have a sense of humor as well and I don't find it funny but, I must be a lot younger than you because I have no idea who Lenny Bruce is.

Yes, zephpyr, you probably are much younger than I. Bruce was a pretty raunchy comic, whom I didn't particularly care for in style and substance, but that particular joke, I found funny. Because of your age the segment of history that is your "experience" is predicated on the age of "feminism/affirmative action" that still dominate liberal thinking. Again, I believe in equal pay for equal work. However, what the liberals have done in coining , and elevating to worship status, the term "single mom" is the political tool used by the democrats to incite and get votes through emotionalism. I was forced to be a "single mom" because of the unconstitutional ex-post facto "no-fault" divorce law which impairs the obligation of contract and allows those who do not wish to be accountable and responsible to their marriage vows and families to abandon and desert with impunity. If you understood that that was not possible under fault law, you would see why so many women went back to the workplace and left generations of children latchkey and raising themselves. For this, I blame the flaming liberals in government, who, instead of providing "work at home jobs" for displaced homemakers enticed them away from their children with the promise of careers deemed more important than child rearing. Although it is difficult on a case by case basis, ideally there should be a head of household wage earner for each family at base. Given our economy today, and given the fact that we continue to run after the almighty dollar that our Democratic government is blatantly robbing from us, it's no wonder we are so confused and our children are angry and depressed and vassels of our public schools and "aftercare" often run by teenagers. While neither "party" can claim perfection, the Democrats are certainly the most corrupt, engaging in blatant treason in order to win an election by installing an unvetted, unconstitutional person illegally in the office of president, to the detriment and danger of us all. And, notice how they will continue to rob us, male and female, of our hard earned dollars in order to line their pockets and force us into indentured servitude. And the monster-in-chief has stolen over 2 million of our hard earnd tax dollars to pay his lawyers to keep his vital records sealed. He was sued as a PRIVATE person, BEFORE the fake election, and should be using his own millions proferred by George Soros, various Arab interests, etc. who helped stupid liberals to commit treason. Republicans are no angels, but this treason by the Democrats is truly diabolical. You'll be surprised to see just how much the "world will change" under forced socialism and servitude, and your "unequal pay" argument will lose total relevance as your money continues to be "redistributed" a la dictator BHO and evil minions Pelosi, Reid, and the Democratic Socialists, and DNC.

We're not a democracy at all. We are a republic with democratically elected representatives. That's why politics shouldn't be centrally-run, but local, as far as possible. Maggiepie "Life is hard. It's harder if you're stupid." ~ John Wayne