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It's pretty sad if his campaign flak can't give an immediate non-answer to any question. They need to upgrade their prevarication subroutine posthaste. Minor glitches turn into full-fledged incidents based off ineffective handling; any pro campaign knows this.
Cinebar - the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act doesn't address "equal pay for equal work", as you've been brainwashed to believe. The Act "made a technical fix allowing after-the-fact challenges" (lex lata limitations) and "actually did pretty much nothing for the larger cause of equal pay and equal work" - according to a news source leftists like you trust:
Female employees in the Obama White House make considerably less than their male colleagues, records show.
According to the 2011 annual report on White House staff, female employees earned a median annual salary of $60,000, which was about 18 percent less than the median salary for male employees ($71,000).
Cinebar - the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act doesn't address "equal pay for equal work", as you've been brainwashed to believe. The Act "made a technical fix allowing after-the-fact challenges" (lex lata limitations) and "actually did pretty much nothing for the larger cause of equal pay and equal work" - according to a news source leftists like you trust:
After the Lilly Ledbetter Act passed in Congress and was signed into law, President Obama and Senate Democrats were self-congratulatory.
“We passed the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act -- the first bill I signed -- so that equal pay for equal work is a reality all across this country," Obama said, praising himself and his colleagues. "We are very proud of legislation we have passed … to guarantee gender pay equity with the Lilly Ledbetter law,"
... Nevertheless, with an election coming in November and with Republicans supposedly waging a war on women, the pay equity Lilly Ledbetter bill does not appear to have been enough--even for these very same Democrats.
The first stop will be to bring another pay equity bill to the Senate floor. As Senate majority leader Harry Reid, a Democrat, said yesterday on Capitol Hill, "Madam President, it is almost universally acknowledged that Republican obstructionism has reached new heights in the Senate…
I guess the Ledbetter legislation did nothing - especially since Congress still does not do equal pay.
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Records show Obama White House pays women less
