The answer to my question is yes. That is obvious. Do we all make the same wages? No. Therefore our wages aren't equal. Duh. Of course, Barack Obama loves to promote communism. With communism everyone shares equally, like the communes the Hippies had in the 1960's and 1970's. The communists believe that we all should be totally equal in every way. The government should own all property and all businesses. The government should employ everyone and give them all the same wage.
Everyone should be equal except for the ruling class. They get to live like kings. They can take all the government money and pay themselves a nice salary. The rulers get to live in palaces (or maybe big white houses in Washington). The ruling class has the finest clothing. The ruling class goes on extravagant paid vacations all over the world (to places like Martha's Vineyard or Spain or Hawaii or ...). The ruler can play golf every week on the best courses in the country. The ruling class doesn't have to mingle with the little people; they have armed guards to protect them.
I have traveled to third world countries before. I noticed that everyone wasn't poor. In fact, there was a small, very affluent group of people in these countries. Anyone with education and technical or business knowledge was very well off compared to the masses. In fact, with the low standard of living in a third world country, an everyday professional was very well off. Of course, there was also a large group of poor people, and many of them were extremely poor by US standards. The thing that makes the United States and Western Europe different is the large middle class. Most of us in the US fall into this middle category, and even the lower end of the middle class generally has had access to schools for the kids, plenty of food, good housing, and top-notch health care.
What places us in our particular station in life? How do we end up in our economic class? Is it what we are born into? Is it our birthright to be a millionaire or to be lower middle class or somewhere else on the socioeconomic scale? This is and always has been a big thing that sets the United States apart from the majority of the world. Everyone has equal opportunity to succeed. Some folks choose to live a middle class life just like their parents did. They find a job working for a company and begin collecting their paycheck. Others work hard in school, go off to college and get a degree, and/or start a business. Some start really big businesses and become billionaires. Others start small, local retail establishments that provide them an above average income that isn't much better than those middle class folks that are collecting paychecks from an employer. It is strictly left up to them how much work and sacrifice they want to endure.
Is this system somehow unfair to the people that make lower salaries? The Democrat MessAPolitico is telling us that our system is unfair. They keep talking about the widening gap between the "haves" and the "have nots." Barack Obama made a big deal about it in the State of the Union address last week. He said something to the effect that it is embarrassing to have women making 28% less than men in the United States in this day and age. (I heard someone on the radio the next day saying that the real number is more in the range of 5%-10% less. I also heard that women make higher wages than men in many cases when you compare women and men with equivalent jobs.)
How can a president be taken seriously when he makes a blanket statement like this that overall average pay for women is X% lower than the overall average pay for men? Is that necessarily proof that wage inequality exists? I guess so if you expect everyone to make the same salary, regardless of career choice or weekly hours worked.
Why are men and women making different annual salaries? If the world is about 50% male and 50% female, does that mean that 50% of hairdressers are men? Are 50% of engineers women? Are 50% of corporate CEO's women? Are 50% of professional athletes women? The law says that businesses and schools and everything else must treat men and women equally. If you folks in the MessAPolitico want us all to be homogeneous and exactly alike, why don't you pass a law that says it is a felony to be different? Should we change the rules and make everyone have the same job? Let's pick a job, and everyone will have that same job. Since we all need to eat, I hope everyone will be a farmer. Of course, there won't be anyone building houses, so we will have to build our own houses. There won't be any stores to buy the nails and lumber either. I guess there won't be any lumber or nails being manufactured either, so why would you need the store.
Or maybe the MessAPolitico should pass a law that says half of all doctors must be women. If you're going to do it right, half of all Gynecologists must be women. The same goes for Family Practicioners, Orthopedic Surgeons, Urologists, Trauma Surgeons, Cardiologists, etc. Of course, half of all nurses, steel workers, NFL running backs, airline pilots, bus drivers, mechanical engineers, lawyers, insurance salespeople, NBA centers, fast food cooks, etc. etc. must also be women. Then, all women and men must work the same number of hours per week.
Are you MessAPoliticians going to pass a law that says women and men must like the same things too? I guess all of the guys will have to like "chick flicks," but look at the bright side; it will be against the law for women to hate football. Of course, that could be pretty interesting when the female linebacker tries to make a tackle on a 250 pound male fullback. (Are they going to pass a law that says we all have to weigh the same, be the same height, cut our hair the same, dress the same, and eat the same stuff too? What are they going to do about the different genitalia? That's going to be a problem . . . unless they want to slow down population growth.)
It is wrong that gender or race or religion or any personal characteristic would cause any of us to be treated unfairly. I strongly believe that women should make the same wages as a man doing the same job. I also believe that our system is fair. Women generally don't like the same things that men do, and they choose jobs and professions that interest them. Sometimes, women choose to stay home and raise the family. They might choose to work part-time or choose to have no job at all. If a person chooses to work 20 hours/week, I would expect them to make half as much as another person that works 40 hours/week, regardless of gender. That is chosen inequality. The person chose something that means less pay.
Let's face it; the MessAPolitico is trying to change the subject. They're hoping we will forget that they have screwed up our health insurance and health care. They hope that we will forget that folks died in Benghazi. They hope that more and more of us will accept our new state of unemployment as permanent and look to the benevolent MessAPolitico for our subsistence. Let's not forget. End the status quo. Get back to the constitution so we can be free to pursue happiness however we see fit.
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