And You Mean His Head Didn’t Screw Off With All That Twisted Thinking?
So Marco Rubio says that the Lillie Ledbetter Fair Pay Law is nothing but “a giveaway to trial lawyers.”
Trial lawyers? Really, now. You mean those evil horrible nasty people who make sure that employers follow the law? Oh yeah, let’s screw them! You mean the people who represent the last bastion of freedom? Oh yeah, let’s screw ‘um. And those who recover wages for women who have been cheated for a decade and make the employers pay her fairly and her legal fees, too? Yep, screw the dickens out of them.
We cannot be having women sue for their rights. No, siree. Women should quit whining and be grateful they get paid at all.
Here’s the line that choked me hard:
Rubio said he supports the principle but opposes the Ledbetter legislation as a way of achieving it.
“If you’re the most qualified person for the job, you should be able to get paid — you should get paid as much as your male counterpart,” he said. “Everyone agrees with that principle.”
Oh, so it’s nice in principle but not in reality? So, if a woman does not discover that she is being paid unfairly within 180 days, screw her and her lawyer.
Thank you, Marco. So you solution is to arm women with guns and let them just shoot whoever isn’t paying them fairly? Heck, we’ll try it your way.
Bozo.
Speaking of entitlement…..
I have a problem with Cuban Americans assuming they can speak for ALL Hispanics when they have the dry foot law letting them migrate to the US with no waiting period, qualifying, or numerical limits.
This twerp is just more than I can bear on so many subjects and levels.
1Good God, the first qualification to run on a GOP ticket: “must be a certifiable moron!”
2There IS a way to avoid those nasty law suits – just pay women the same and you won’t have to worry about it.
That’s who he is protecting – those SOBs that won’t until forced to.
3http://www.facebook.com/MarcoRubio
You should see some of the comments. I just added my own.
4I don’t know who thought up “trial lawyers” as being the bad guys, but it is one of the silliest arguments the RePiggery spews each election. We need “trial lawyers” or lawyers of any practice in US America – to prevent people like the idiot Rubio from discriminating against everyone.
I agree that to put Rubio forth as the “hispanic” is ridiculous. They may actually not know the difference between Mexicans, Cubans, Puerto Ricans, Hondurans, Guatemalans, etc.
The Democratic Voice of Reason regarding the “hispanic” population of the SW is Bill Richardson.
Rubio is just another know-nothing spewer of RePig talking points.
5To claim to be for the principle but against enforcing it is not really to be for the principle. Hey, I believe that black people should not be held as slaves, but I guess Rubio wouldn’t want something like that legislated ’cause of all the nasty trial lawyers. Note, also, that for every dollar the trail lawyers make the corporate lawyers probably make three. And they get paid win or lose.
6Hey, he said women should get paid the same as men for doing the same job. For him, that is probably a major concession and he probably thought he was being liberal.
7If it wasn’t for trial lawyers some businesses would never change.
8I would think that Florida could produce a number of women who would be able to outperform Rubio for exactly the same salary.
9Marge Wood, rubio said “for the most qualified”, not for “as qualified” or for the same job description.
10rubio is doing the legal man dance hoping you won’t notice his real intent.
No concession on his part.
Men make more money than a woman who’s doing the same job. At the same time we’re seeing more and more women entering the job market and in many cases, working in traditionally male jobs. Why is that? It’s simple. If a business can hire a woman who will work for less than her male counterpart, it lowers the bottom line. It also puts the male at a disadvantage. Equal pay for equal work would level the playing field and would help ALL Americans and their families.
11Kate–that’s beautiful! But, of course, it’s from the side where the brains are. I’ll keep it in mind if this argument comes up in my territory; thanks!
12We’re missing it here. Rubio is saying no lawsuit is needed because a women who is the most qualified will be paid what a man gets by the market. It’s another legitimate rape rationalization. The pit is bottomless.
13jj….strange you dont have other views on your comments??
14whats matter?? does the moderator just want “yes” we agree folks….lol…..
guess its your right.it your web…lol
so ..delete this ..lol
did you write the comments??lol
A troll for breakfast, looky there. Anybody want to chow down on fried troll?
Well, not to my taste this morning, so I’m off to comment on the actual post. TexasEllen, my husband, and I all share the experience of growing up with a working mother earning the bread and bacon. Some of you may, too. We know first hand (in terms of the amount of beans on the plate, and the age of the clothes we wore) what the difference in wages means both to individual women and to the children (and often parents) who depend on them. If my mother had been paid commensurate with men doing the same work, we wouldn’t have been in the bottom quintile of income.
Women continue to be underpaid. Where men are underpaid, women are underpaid more. I want to see fair wages for all, and that includes equal pay for equal work with no waffling about it. Mr. Rubio can spend six months working for me at whatever wage I choose to pay him, so he can learn what that feels like. I think Mr. Rubio could become a productive house-cleaner, barn-cleaner, and maybe even builder of fence with proper instruction. About the time he started complaining about his wages and threatening a lawsuit, I’d remind him that he wants all the trial lawyers gone, so nobody wants to represent him.
What a….wrongheaded person he is, to be sure.
15Every circus needs it’s clowns, so be nice to Jerry…he provided amusement for so many this morning. Just shoo him back to the Romney Big Top and let him cavort with the other clowns and elephants.
16Darla Jean, please feel free to use it any way you wish…and I have a bad feeling we all may be using it a lot.
17It’s interesting that most trolls do really badly with punctuation and sentence structure. It’s almost as if they’re ignorant.
18Any time Marco speaks, just pat him on the head, give him a lolly, and send him back to the kids’ table.
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