EQUAL PAY FOR EQUAL WORK

My third favorite slogan/mantra is EQUAL PAY, which started the demand by women to be paid "the same as men" for doing the same or similar job.  This mantra became popular in the mid to late 70's and when I first heard it I couldn't believe it.  Whoever came up with the chant obviously had little or no knowledge of the capitalist/fascist system - they were only interested in gaining political power.


Any wealthy stock holding elitist, a corporate CEO or a business owner had to be salivating when they heard the demands for equal pay.   If I employ Joe for twenty thousand dollars a year and Mary earns ten thousand dollars a year, I have three options.  Option one is I can give Mary a $10,000 a year raise resulting in Mary and Joe making the same salary,  or option 2 - I can lower Joe's salary $10,000 a year and Mary and Joe are making the same salary or option 3 - I can lower Joe's salary to $12,000 a year and raise Mary's salary to $12,000 a year.


The reason I thought the slogan was stupid is because I knew option 3 would be most likely.  First, Option 1 has a snow balls chance in you know where of ever happening.   Option 2 would be great  for the capitalist system, but the Joes of the fascist state might get very angry. Options 3 gives both parties the same salary for the same job and I the capitalist get to pocket six thousand dollars for doing nothing!! What a concept!!  Initially the two workers cost me 30,000 thousand a year, but after meeting the demands of the feminists, I now only pay out $24,000 a year and Mary is happy because she got a big raise (20%) and now makes the same as Joe.  How could I as an elite fascist not support equal pay?


Now there is still a major problem with this scenario.  Joe is not going to be a happy camper.  But while he is not happy, Joe no longer feels safe in his job, because the work force has just been increased by about 30% by a flood of women into the market place. This is another gain for the ruling elitists.  And secondly, the ruling fascists are not going to reduce Joe's salary in one week, one month or one year.  Just like the fascist took several years to totally destroy my life so that it would look "natural",  the capitalists would reduce Joe's salary over an extended period of time so that it wouldn't be very noticeable and irritating to Joe.


That is what I, the "crazy anti-amerikan, anti-capitalist, mysogonist" thought would happen.  But since we now have history to look back on, lets see what actually happened.  In the decade of the 80's, the average working man's salary decreased at a rate of 1% a year, every year, which gives a compounded decrease of about 9.5% for the decade!  And that trend has continued to present day.  The rate of decrease in men's salary may vary, but the direction has been consistently down.  And the corollary is that women's salary has increased over the same period of time.  That is why the fascist media constantly reminds you that women's salaries are up to X% of men's where X is constantly increasing.  Keep in mind, I'm talking about salaries adjusted for inflation and other factors.  Maybe, just maybe, I wasn't nor am as crazy as some people claim.


And I should point out, that Option 2 became prominent during the economic crash of 2007-2008.  During that period,  men who were working and making $80,000 a year, were fired and their position was relisted in the ads at $45.000 a year and may or may not have been filled by a woman.


In my next blog, I will show how the "equal pay" mantra has helped create probably the biggest problem facing this nation today - income and asset inequality.  The fascist system and media has decided to focus on a secondary problem termed the "deficit" and "no new taxes" problem.


Let me give you a heads up.  Where do you think all that money went?  To charity?!  And why did my nemesis The Crazies finance and promote Gloria Steinem and "Ms" magazine?  The crazies love feminism?  Again, I'm not making these things up - you now have the means to check out the facts.