by Salena Zito April 15, 2014
She gave a dramatic eye-roll in reaction to all of the fuss that Democrats and
the president attempted to create over equal pay for women last week. A
Democrat herself, she said she has carved out a decent, comfortable life for
her family over the years as a waitress at a local restaurant.
"I am in many ways my own boss," she explained. "It is up to me
to get the order right, treat people well, and use my personal skills to
increase my wages."
And she is "sick and tired of my party treating me like a victim. This is
not 1970, and it's insulting."…….[Obama] claimed that women earn 77 cents
to every dollar earned by men - a very broad statement and, in many ways,
false, according to a Labor Department analysis showing that when you factor in
job experience, education and hours worked, the difference in median wages
between men and women shrinks to 5 to 7 cents on the dollar.
White House officials had no problem using that same Labor Department analysis
to explain away their own 88-cent wage gap between female and male staffers.
But they failed to mention it once in all of their press releases, or in
Obama's speech……To Read More....
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