Why do I have to write these headlines? Why do Republicans and their potential future figurehead have to be so thick? Do they hate women? Nah, it isn't that they hate 51% of the population, its just they want all of the money and power to rest with a select few within the other 49%. And how does one do that? Well for John McCain, you complain about eerie, spooky and frightening lawsuits.
From The Huffington Post:
NEW ORLEANS — Republican Sen. John McCain, campaigning through poverty-stricken cities and towns, said Wednesday he opposes a Senate bill that seeks equal pay for women because it would lead to more lawsuits.
Senate Republicans killed the bill Wednesday night on a 56-42 vote that denied the measure the 60 votes needed to advance it to full debate and a vote. Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., had delayed the vote to give McCain's Democratic rivals, Sens. Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama, time to return to Washington to support the measure, which would make it easier for women to sue their employers for pay discrimination.
McCain skipped the vote to campaign in New Orleans.
"I am all in favor of pay equity for women, but this kind of legislation, as is typical of what's being proposed by my friends on the other side of the aisle, opens us up to lawsuits for all kinds of problems," the expected GOP presidential nominee told reporters. "This is government playing a much, much greater role in the business of a private enterprise system."
Claiming that the private sector will fix the gender gap in income in our country is worse than letting the fox guard the henhouse. There is not even an appearance of anyone guarding anything. This just lets corporate America continue to exploit this inequality so the wealthy few can get even wealthier without having to share it with women. Now we can all see who's side John McCain is on.
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