Wednesday, April 20, 2005

What title did Dane use?

Fake Right, turn Hard Left was the phrase, I believe. And it was used to describe Hillary Clinton's actions as of late.

Well, the Hildabeast proves that she's still a sleazy socialist.

But today, Hillary is returning to her liberal roots by joining the high priestesses of feminism in marking “Equal Pay Day.” According to feminist calculations, the first four months of 2005 were spent making up for last year’s wage gap; today, women supposedly will have finally earned as much as men in 2004. She will introduce legislation to “fix” this gap and thereby end a grave injustice.


Again with the whine of "Women are paid unfairly!" No, they're not. Here are a few questions for you to use on the liberal maggots who raise the hue and cry of wage discrimination.

How many female plumbers do you know? Electricians? Concrete workers? Bricklayers? How about framers or other construction jobs? Fisherman? Crab fishers? Stockbrokers? Engineers? Pilots?

What do many of those jobs have in common? They're damn hard work. Dirty work. You work long hours in unpleasant conditions busting your ass day in and day out. They all happen to pay mucho dinero. And they all happen to be male dominated due to the reasons laid out.

Ask the woman who's whining about not getting paid equally if she wants to spend 12-18 hours a day cleaning shit out of pipes for 20 years. Most likely, she'll look at you and go "HELL NO!". But that's what plumbers do, and they get paid well for it. Ever had to pay for a plumber? Hot damn, that's expensive. The cheapest I've ever paid a plumber was $40 an hour. And yet every plumber who's come to my house was a man.

In Why Men Earn More, Warren Farrell — a former board member of the National Organization for Women’s New York chapter — identifies 25 decisions that individuals make when choosing jobs and reveals how, on average, men are more likely than women to make decisions that increase pay. Not only do women take more time out of the labor force and work fewer hours than do men, women also avoid jobs that require a great deal of travel or relocation. Men assume more high-risk jobs — 92 percent of occupational deaths occur among men — and endeavors that require braving the elements outdoors.


What you get paid is a matter of the choices you make. I once spoke to a woman who did woodwork, finish and detail work. She was a carpenter, and a damn good one. I asked her why she got into woodworking, and she told me that she wanted to make good money. So she became very good at turning out furniture, cabinets, ect. And she did get paid. She got paid very well.

But she worked for it, just like every man.

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