Barack Obama's Paycheck Unfairness Act

[FrankRep]

If you’re a stay-at-home mom, I don’t think you’ll like a policy that makes it harder for your husband to support your family. Yet Barack Obama is advocating just such a policy — it’s called the “Paycheck Fairness Act” (PFA).


Barack Obama's Paycheck Unfairness Act (http://thenewamerican.com/index.php/opinion/selwyn-duke/6750-barack-obamas-paycheck-unfairness-act)


Selwyn Duke | The New American (http://thenewamerican.com/)
18 March 2011

[LibertyEagle]

Ugh. It's not government's business to dictate to private companies how much they pay their employees. But, a lot of people in America will agree with Obama's proposition, because they have forgotten that one of the things that used to be so great about this country was that everyone could go out and start their own businesses if they so chose. If intelligent and hardworking women are truly being underpaid for what they produce, then a competitor should be able to attract these employees and kick the ass of those companies in the marketplace who haven't chosen to pay them what they are worth. There's nothing like a big dose of competition that helps people see the error of their ways.

[sevin]

Of course, many don’t trouble much over this because it supposedly helps women. But does it really? Even if you accept the proposition that giving people undeserved benefits helps them . . . there are unseen female victims here. These are the wives and daughters whose husbands now, in the name of social engineering, may be undercompensated. Thus, you could say that the PFA benefits career-driven women at the expense of other women: stay-at-home moms and their daughters.

That's the real purpose of this act, to discourage stay-at-home mothers. They'd rather kids be raised by the state.

[Theocrat]

That's the real purpose of this act, to discourage stay-at-home mothers. They'd rather kids be raised by the state.

In addition to that, I think there is also the concern that since the world is "overpopulated," encouraging women to work outside the home and seek careers (with incentives to pay women more in the workplace) makes them least likely to want to have kids and stay at home to raise them. It's considered "empowerment," in some environmental circles.