Thread: Paycheck Fairness Act should send cold chill down your spine

Nothing "fair" about it.

By Kay Daly
November 12, 2010 11:34 PM

Word around DC is that the Paycheck Fairness Act is a priority for Lame-Duck Majority Leader Harry Reid and that some well-monied folks are lining up behind it. Cloture was filed before the Senate left for the election so it is ready to rock as soon as the Senate returns to its hallowed halls next week.

Bills like this should send a cold chill down your spine. Doesn't it sound nice? "Paycheck FAIRNESS..." It is FAIR. But fair to whom? Whenever the left starts using language like that, think "Animal Farm" by George Orwell. It is simply another case of some being "equaler" than others.

The Paycheck Fairness Act is a bill that would exponentially expand the role of government in decisions made by employers regarding the compensation for their employees. Feminists just love this bill. The government would be put in charge of data collection -- never a good sign. Government would require employers to register information on their employees, to include the gender, race, and national origin of employees, significantly adding to red tape, paperwork, and hiring costs, and trapping firms in costly litigation.

It makes absolutely no sense. Unemployment is above 9% -- more than 15 million Americans are out of work. Is this really the time to mandate businesses, particularly small businesses with filling out more government forms in triplicate for a government bureaucrat? This would place additional costs on already cash-strapped businesses across America and ensure that the only new jobs out of this deal would be for the government....to process these new forms!

Employers would have yet another reason why they should look to other outsourcing abroad rather than fighting through the ever-increasing thicket of red tape here at home. Even the Washington Post said in an editorial, "Discrimination is abhorrent, but the Paycheck Fairness Act is not the right fix."

Phyllis Schlafly has a terrific column on this disaster of a bill here. http://www.eagleforum.org/column/2010/o ... 10-29.html

And Diana Fuchgott-Roth has a tremendous piece on the subject here in the Washington Examiner. http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opini ... 99243.html

Christina Hoff Summers wrote about it in the New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/22/opini ... mmers.html

This is just the sort of rallying vote President Obama would want to cheer up his leftist base. Although it is too late for this past election, he clearly is already doing the calculus for his own date with destiny in 2012. And there can be no doubt that the feminists are a huge part of his electoral equation. To get them back will require some drastic "show me" actions that he hopes will cause women to flock back to his fold.

The President and his co-horts, Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi are clearly more than willing to do his bidding, regardless of the continued damage it will do to our already floundering economy or the jobs that will continue to evaporate. Politics over principle, so long as the ends justify the means, eh, comrades?

http://www.gopusa.com/fresh-ink/2010/11 ... out-it.php

I oppose this not because there aren't still major problems in the work force due to discrimination against blacks and women, but any more intrusion into our companies by the government is far worse than women or blacks earning less than some of their counterparts. Even those these wage disparities are outrageous and unacceptable government intrusion is even more unacceptable.

Instead of suing Arizona for enforcing US immigration law that would considerably raise the wages of minorities and women citizens in the US, perhaps the DOJ should be suing employers who discriminate against women and minorities based on the numerous complaints filed every year with the EEOC.

No No and No to the Paycheck Fairness Act. We already have laws that require equal pay for equal work, it's just time to enforce them.