President Obama has developed the disparity between average
male and female wages to his political advantage. He noted recently that
females average only about 70% of male income in the U.S.A. and that change
needs to happen. Part of the trouble is in comparing different occupations;
should a file clerk get the same pay as a roustabout with 8th grade education,
more or less? Is an office worker with a college degree comparable to the hard,
dangerous life of the offshore oil patch?
In a perfect world a worker working ten quanta would be paid
for ten quanta objectively and impartially. The sex, age, race or perversion of
the worker would just not be a factor. Yet U.S. politicians instead develop a
zillion laws to make 'corrections' to social inequality that have a cumulative
of institutionalizing unfair and irrational economics.
Perhaps the President expects male wages to drop another 30%
or females to get 30% raises to create an even field where work contribution is
secondary to the personal characteristics of the person's class making a
contribution. That is not an ergonomic compensation field.
We know that government work is largely neutered and
machines can do the heavy lifting. Everyone has a swell paycheck and benefits
in government. With the college degree and the desk, smart phone and tablet
government workers twitter equally. Yet government work isn't on a free
enterprise foundation and cannot be a model for reform of the private sector
through swelling too-big-to-suffer-consequences-for-rash-risk corporations and
making them homo-friendly.
President Obama supports legalization of millions of illegal
aliens as new cheap American workers. That would help lower male wages to a
certain extent following laws of labor supply and demand. Yet wages for men in
the non-service worker sector probably won't drop enough to please Mr. Obama
and his Harvard economic elite martinets even if new illegal aliens arrive to
do the dirty and dangerous or difficult work if the wages drop too low. The
primary benefit for the President will be in continuing to drive a wage between
female and male Republican voters. More Republicrats may be elected. The nation
can go further along its course of decay.
If one writes about economic reform and finds the Republican
corporate powers unfair, the Democrats will lend a sympathetic ear. Yet what
they mean by reform and what and intelligent soul means are quite
different. Democrats mean redistribution of income from Republicans to gender,
race and perversion criteria selected constituents while the intelligent
soul may mean things like capping the size of government and corporations,
transitioning to full-employment and ecological economics, and assuring that
even minimum wage provides a descent standard of living. The intelligent
soul will be disillusioned.
The gender wage gap exploits male workers as well as females
politically. Instead of work being regarded qualitatively and quantitatively
objective it's inherently class biased. The U.S. Government, comprised of so
many incompetent, and uncreative individuals better-suited to communes or corporations than self-employment pose and posture very well-even with Hollywood Stars and pass laws
that are a patchwork of illogic and economic contradictions with unfair
compensation to compensate the rich for risk biased toward the poor. How
otherwise could Gov. Chris Christie, New Jersey and New York get $60 billion
for storm damage and high water? How can the government provide easy sweetheart
bailouts to corporations and banks and those that build or buy homes in
floodplains? President Obama forced through the Nixon-Romney corporate health
care act to create another vast and complex opportunity for pork barrel
flummery. Free health care for the poor inn quality expanded V.A. hospitals
would have been faster, cheaper and better. That would not have helped the
aging immaterial work sector Democrat majority afford $250,000 per year health
care to let them live to age two or three hundred if possible. It's
questionable that the original intent of F.D.R. was to let workers or foreign
workers contribute enough to let the middle class live like the rich in
retirement or before.
Effete electron pushing house flippers and the swollen
financial service sector making up 30%- of the workforce produce nothing
material nor do physical work. The heavy lifting isn't a language activity. The
non-dirty, dangerous or heavy lifting workers just want to reallocate a little
more profit unto themselves.
Ideally work should be viewed entirely quantified -not
considered through the lens of gender, race or perversion paradigmata. If one
lifts 100 pounds ten times a day that should pay more than lifting 10 pounds
five times a month. In America the threat is development of non-objectivity in
work compensation. Equal opportunity to work should be foundational. The
quality and quantity of work an individual does should be objectively measured
and receive objective pay.
Those inclined to exploit others for profit have forever
developed temporary methods for doing so. The Democrat party today is in the
line of developing non-objective criteria of compensation and opportunity. Work
opportunity should never be closed to an adult American citizen during their
life. Work is an inalienable right and piecework for independents is probably
the ideal social direction to evolve in.
The move of a majority of Americans into non-production
service sector jobs without heavy lifting brings some enmity toward those
saturation divers, professional athletes, building tradesmen and industrial
workers that receive good compensation largely for males. The elite trend has
been toward degrading that work and skimming wages to the immaterial work
sector of the majority. President Obama has adroitly exploited the lower
average income status of women and omitted mention whatsoever of fairness for
all workers that should be on an objective basis.
Writers like to get paid by the word sometimes and get fair
pay for their work. Of course it's difficult to assess qualitative values
outside the marketplace. One could use MSword's grade level function and pay
more for writing at a grade 16+ level than for level 8-. The marketplace has an
element of unfair advantage to it as well as supply and demand. Location being
everything it's sometimes difficult to get around corrupt government
bureaucracies to legislate real change. President Obama should stop playing the
gender card politically and instead seek a rectification of fair pay for
objective work in the workplace and every worker. In the absence of social justice venality, corruption and the evil of iniquity forces concentration of wealth with decline of ecosphere and economy.
Former four-star Army General McKiernan is a where-are-they-now kind of leader with advanced degrees from Stanford, Harvard (we don't hold that against him) and elsewhere. McKiernan is the kind of Republican candidate that no longer stands for office, yet the Republican party certainly could use a few like that.
