Comments on: Obama Should Hold Tongue On Equal Pay

National Review Online: Democrat Pays His Female Staffers Less Equitably Than McCain

[mydog2a]

Hold it a minute. Neither McCain nor Obama determine the salaries of their staffs. Senate staff members are employees of the Federal government and their pay scales are pre-determined by a number of factors, including pay grade and years of service. Because McCain has been a senator for much longer than Obama, it stands to reason that his staff would have more years of service and more time to reach higher pay grades than Obama''s comparatively younger staff. This no doubt accounts for any "inequities" that exist, and not that Obama is shortchanging his female employees. The author of this opinion piece knows this, and is just being duplicitous.

Look at their voting records in the Senate: McCain has voted against equal pay legislation for women, while Obama has consistently supported it.

[ioweign]

What do you expect? He made $20 million the last 3 years, but can do nothing for his Kenyan brother and grandmother. Can you help?

www.helpobamasbrother.org/

Posted by my2centss at 08:18 AM : Sep 13, 2008

McCain could step up to the plate and let him live in one of his 7 houses...

[gman1951]

I believe he is on the right track but not including all of the obvious.
I think pay should be equitable all across America. Why should a lawyer or gym teacher or speech pathologist be worth something in New Jersey and something way different in Arizona or Texas? Speech Pathologists with a Masters Degree?? Why are they the lowest paid profession in the Rapid City SD school district compared to the rest of the nation?
Sure you can say that the cost of living is different in every state but I have worked all over the United States and I see what everything cost but all in all it all averages out; and it all depends on what you are willing to spend on something. Most of all it is how you want to live.
I think if a licensed electrician is worth $32 an hour in Mpls then the licensed electrician in Alabama should be worth that too! A lot of things in this country would balance out then....Just a thought!

[ofbyfor2]

Posted by Platteman at 06:53 AM : Sep 13, 2008

Google the ''Lily Ledbetter Act'' and see how McCain voted.

[ofbyfor2]

Perhaps you are correct. However, isn''''t it interesting that McCain is more progressive when it comes to hiring women? Give him some credit where credit is due.

Posted by waynester9 at 07:09 PM : Sep 12, 2008

Google the ''Lily Ledbetter Act'' and see how McCain voted.

[my2centss]

What do you expect? He made $20 million the last 3 years, but can do nothing for his Kenyan brother and grandmother. Can you help?

www.helpobamasbrother.org/

[platteman]

Now that is funny as Terry Bradshaw would say. Obama paying women 88 cents compaired to his male staff one dollar. McCain pays more to women than men what a hoot. A republican doing something right, democrats who talk one thing, do another. Wasn''t BO for public financing of his campaign before he was against it. For school vouchers before he was against them. Now he wants equal pay for women and men, but doesn''t practice what he wants to preach. Sounds like the same old thing, just what he wants to equate McCain with Bush which is a real strech. What else is new. The same old political drival from the new messiah from chicago. Of course, a daily made politician. Just another crooked political hack.

[omega40]

Equal pay, though you are too dumb to realize the obvious, means equal pay for the SAME job, not equal pay to everyone.
Posted by aakalan at

LOL! Maybe the NRO is advocating communism now.

[aakalan]

I need therapy to find out why I continue to read NRO garbage...

This article is a case in point. You break down the genders to "top 20%, top 5%", but what are the jobs?

Equal pay, though you are too dumb to realize the obvious, means equal pay for the SAME job, not equal pay to everyone. Unless you break down your numbers by job title and compare male and female jobholders of the same job, your idiot statistics mean nothing.

Like most of your articles.

[ramos937]

The National Review long ago revealed itself as a biased pro-GOP trade journal. Nothing it writes politically is objective and fair.