I would be the last one to deny that there is, in fact, going on in this country, a war on women. But what I take exception to is, not only the rhetoric that claims it’s the Republican Party that’s behind it, what this war is really all about. Because this ongoing war has nothing whatsoever to do with a woman’s supposed "reproductive rights", which has essentially been defined as nothing more than women having access to ‘free’ birth control. What it has everything to do with is something that I would hope ‘most’ women come to see as being far more sinister. And that would be her ability to find, and to keep, a job and thus to become self-sufficient.
Women must be made to realize, and many already do, that since Barry first took office, back on that fateful day in January 2009, the U.S. economy has gone on to employ an additional 3,590,000 people. But what has been rather unfortunate is the fact that only 1,386,000 of those people, or roughly 38 percent, have been women. And keep in mind that at the same time, women represent 46.8 percent of the national civilian labor force. That means that women are getting a smaller share of the jobs being added to the economy (38.6 percent) than their representation in the civilian labor force (46.8 percent). And yet, Barry talks of fairness.
The percentage of the added jobs that have gone to women is even smaller if it measured from what is the lowest point of post-recession employment, an event that we’re told took place in December 2009. Since then, it’s only 37.8 percent of the net additional jobs that have gone to women. As of last month, the civilian labor force totaled 156,227,000. This included 83,052,000 (or 53.2 percent) men and 73,175,000 (or 46.8 percent) women. In January 2009, the month Barry was first inaugurated and before his official tenure began, there were 142,152,000 people employed in the United States, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
As of March 2014, there were 145,742,000, or a net increase of 3,590,000 people employed from 2009. The number of additional males employed between January 2009 and March 2014 was 2,204,000, or 61.4 percent, of the total. The number of additional females employed was little more that half of that amount, coming in at 1,386,000, or 38.6% of the total. So what we have seen take place resembles very little the endless rhetoric that we have continued to hear not only from Barry "Almighty" but from just about every Democrat that’s in any position of leadership. These supposed defenders of women are, as it turns out, just the opposite.
According to the National Bureau of Economic Research, the last recession began in December 2007 and supposedly ended, although some would argue that it still hasn’t ended, in June 2009. In the wake of that recession, employment hit a low of 138,013,000 in December 2009. The 145,742,000 who were employed as of March was 7,729,000 above that December 2009 low point. Of that 7,729,000 increase in people employed since the post-recession employment , approximately 62.2 percent were men and 37.8 percent were women. When President George W. Bush took office in January 2001, there were 137,778,000 people employed in the United States.
And eight years later in January 2009, when Bush left office, there were 142,152,000. Of the 4,374,000 additional people employed during Bush’s full two terms, 1,518,000, or 34.7 percent, were men, and 2,855,000, or 65.3 percent, were women. So in effect, what Barry did was to take one of those things that he actually did inherit from Bush, and he then proceeded to completely reverse it. So who is it that can be said to really be leading the war on women? I would think that that now become obvious. And keep in mind also that Barry can’t even bring himself to pay those women who work for him the same amount that he pays the men. And yet he preaches, and nearly ad nauseam, equal pay for equal work. The lies just never stop coming.
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