[lbo-talk] left aiding right

Shane Mage shmage at pipeline.com
Sun Sep 20 13:41:10 PDT 2009


On Sep 20, 2009, at 1:06 PM, c b wrote:


> i don't follow the news about this. could you at least fill me in on
> good things obama has done?
> shag
>
> ^^^^^
> CB: Here's one cutie: pay equity act . Or ain't that a change you
> can believe in ?
>
Look, nobody said Obama would be just as bad as Bush. The relevant comparison is Clinton. The "pay equity act" restores the pre-Bush status quo. Except--and its a big exception--he refused to make it retroactive.
>
> ..."Goodyear will never have to pay me what it cheated me out of,"
> Ledbetter said at the White House reception. "I will never see a
> cent..."
of the money she actually earned. Is that the good thing?

Shane Mage


> This cosmos did none of gods or men make, but it
> always was and is and shall be: an everlasting fire,
> kindling in measures and going out in measures."
>
> Herakleitos of Ephesos



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