If there is one thing that Democrats are very good at, it would be the ability to talk out of both sides of their mouths and pretty much simultaneously. We’re constantly being told how it is they, and they alone, who are the protectors of minorities and the guardians of women’s rights. Republicans are always being accused of wishing to return us to the good old days of Jim Crow and of when women were kept barefoot and pregnant. And sadly, many choose to believe this rather fictional account of reality. Because, let’s not forget, that such things as Jim Crow, slavery, segregation and even the creation of the Ku Klux Klan, were all institutions dreamt up and implemented by Democrats. And what exactly have Democrats accomplished for women that has, in any way, made them better off. Democrats have essentially convinced many women that they will be better off if the government is allowed to play the role of spouse or significant other.
For instance, nearly every day now, and especially during an election year, we hear how the Democrats, and especially Barry, very strongly supports equal pay for women who do the same job as men. And yet we find that 63 percent of the federal civilian workers who earned an annual salary of $100,000 or more in 2013 were men. At least according to data from the Office of Personnel Management (OPM). Now they wouldn’t lie about such a thing, would they? An OPM database, called FedScope, contains historical data on the federal civilian workforce going back to 1998. The database contains information about civilian federal workers employed by most ‘Executive Branch’, which Barry heads up, agencies and some Legislative Branch agencies. It does not include employees of the Judiciary Branch or congressional staff. So we see that Barry’s words don’t match up all that well with is actions. Big surprise there.
This database includes the numbers of federal workers at varying "salary levels," set out in $10,000 increments ranging from "less than $20,000" to "$180,000 or more." As of September 2013, there were 474,630 federal civilian employees, covered by the OPM database, paid a salary of $100,000 or more. Of those, 300,221 or 63.3 percent were men, and only 174,409 or 36.7 percent were females. Historically, females have outnumbered males in the brackets among the federal civilian workforce earning $39,999 or less. In every year since 1998, in all brackets earning $40,000 or more, men have outnumbered women. Since 1998, the first year in OPM database, the percentage of women in the federal workforce earning $100,000 or more has increased. But the rate of that increase has slowed considerably during the time that Barry has been in office. Oh no, say it isn’t so! But wait a minute, Barry said he’s all about being fair.
From September 2009 to September 2013, the percentage of females earning a salary of six figures or more increased from 34.9 percent to 36.7 percent, averaging a yearly percentage point increase of 0.7. From September 2001 to September 2008, the percentage of females earning a salary of six figures or more increased from 21.8 percent to 33.2 percent, averaging a yearly percentage point increase of 1.53. During Barry’s presidency, the female share of the federal civilian workforce has declined, hitting a recorded low in 2013, according to the OPM database. In September 2009, the year Barry took office, 44.3 percent of the federal civilian workforce was female. In 2013, it was 43.5%. This is but one more example of the type of dishonesty that we have seen play out time and again over the course of the last five years. Barry seems to be of the opinion that most people will believe anything he says because it’s him who’s saying it.
But let’s face it, there are few things that Democrats will not say, especially during an election year, in their effort to convince the less intelligent or the uninformed among us that is they who stand for fairness and equality. And sadly, far too many will choose to believe what is, in reality, nothing more than empty election year rhetoric. Much has been said about some theoretical war on women that is currently being waged by the Republicans. But it’s upon closer inspection that we find that that’s really not the case. What we would find is that it’s the Democrat Party that seems to be most interested in creating a level of dependency on government the runs completely counter to their rhetoric about only being interested in creating an environment that provides everyone with an opportunity to stand on their own two feet. But what they’re really striving for is to get as many people as possible completely dependent on government.
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