INCOME INEQUALITY CHALLENGED - WOMEN FOR HILLARY
By Thom Palmer
Updated July 13, 2016
Voting against equal pay for women, as well as holding down the pay for middle class workers, has long been a part of the Republican platform. The cost to both men and women, and their families more that most people realize. We're talking trillions. Clinton vows to increase pay and opportunity for all workers, but women and families have the most to gain.
According to WageGap.org, along with many other reputable sources, women over the next 37 years will have lost a mean average of $1,300,000 of income and savings. This is an average of women with a high school diploma, college and doctorate degrees. The measly 22 cent per dollar gap earned by men over women needs to be viewed as $1.3 million dollars per family over a lifetime of work. Over a million stolen from you from right under your nose. Who is stealing your money?
The income gap doesn’t include money that may have been earned through other investments, such as real estate or retirement accounts. It’s only 22 cents, or 78 cents earned on the dollar that a man earns. That’s nothing, right? WRONG.
There are 66 million women working in the United States of America. Multiplied by the 37 year income loss, corporate executives are stealing approximately $86,000,000,000,000 (86 trillion dollars) from the net worth of our women and families. It’s not just something that affects women, but also affecting two-income families and children. Talk about your income inequality… there it is… right there is a big chunk. 86 TRILLION EXTRA DOLLARS in the pockets of greedy corporate executives. $86 trillion to be inherited by their already wealthy children some day. Money taken, or stolen from you, your children and grandchildren. It’s really a crime that should have been corrected a long time ago, but no matter how hard women scream, their voices are not heard, and the pick-pocketing continues.
No matter how hard we’ve tried, the business world, largely dominated fat and greedy conservatives, has continued the practice of ripping off women as compared to men, but they do their share of damage to men as well. Women are afforded less opportunities than men as well, which makes the gap that much further apart. Suffragette, Equal Rights Amendment attempts, Lily Ledbetter Act, and decades of activism have not changed a whole lot when it comes to equal pay for women. It is amazing to me how many people don’t realize the impact of a President Hillary Clinton with a Democratic Senate and House of Representatives, and a progressive Supreme Court. If you’re interested in making an additional $86,000,000,000,000 for the 66 million women working, now is your chance.
THE MIDDLE CLASS NEEDS A CHAMPION
Hillary, as President of the United States, will crack down on income inequality. It’s one of the major issues she has been working on all of her adult life. In fact, one of the attacks on Hillary is her time on the Wal Mart Board of Directors. She served for 6 years on the board, her main focus being to increase opportunity in management for women. She gets bashed by the GOP and even some Democrats for serving on their board. The bashing cites low wages of Wal Mart employees, however, it’s important to know that HRC fought for 6 years with the other board members for equal opportunity and equal pay for women while serving. She didn’t have a lot of success with pay, but changed the game with regard to opportunities. She, along with you, have not been heard in the past. But then again, she wasn’t the President of the United States.
Executive opportunity
In the 240 year history of this nation, the White House has been no place for a woman unless she’s standing behind her man. Opportunity has eluded the female gender in national politics until recently, but representation in all wings of government are still skewed in favor of men. Even in this crazy political season, of the twenty-something candidates that began their quest for the White House, two of them were women. Not great odds. Odds are now 50% chance of having the first woman President. One that will champion equal pay, climate change and environmental protection, and world peace through smart power and negotiation before war.
World inspiration
When I think of the inspiration that a Hillary Clinton presidency would have on young girls and boys growing up today, it almost brings tears to my eyes. Not just for Americans, but girls world-wide who may live in a country that disrespects and suppresses women will be shown an example of leadership which exceeds anything they've ever seen before. The 21st century has changed a lot of paradigms, but so far, any woman running for President or Vice-President has been discounted at about the same rate as your income as a woman has been discounted. Do you allow this to continue or do you take the opportunity to change the future? It may well be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. In the minds of our young daughters, is it the ceiling or the sky that will be the limit? You’ve always told them they can do whatever they want in life. Time to put your money where your mouth is.
Bottom line
I could go on and defend the witch hunt attacks on Hillary, but that’s another entire essay. I've included links on Defending Hillary below. The only dishonesty that I see here are the Republican and Fox News claims of lies and corruption. Republicans, for over three decades, have been telling lies about Hillary lying. The lies they’ve told have been proven to be lies over and over, yet they continue to repeat them, in hope that a good chunk of the electorate take it as fact. Then these evil geniuses then claim moral superiority. Garbage in…garbage out. When a political party lies to you with such conviction and regularity, you can assume that whatever they say to you is more than likely a lie. Republicans have no credibility with me.
Hillary Rodham Clinton is the most qualified, most intelligent, experienced, and well adjusted candidate that has ever sought the Presidency, man or woman. It just happens that she is a woman. So, if you're a woman, or you have a wife, girlfriend, daughter, neice, or sister who happens to be a woman, or you're a man who cares about your own family income, and disagrees with extreme corporate and conservative greed, you really need to vote for Hillary in November. I don't know when you'll have another opportunity to right some wrongs.
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