How We Will Not Win The Fight For A Fair Wage

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/13/pete-hoekstra-lilly-ledbetter-nuisance_n_1423986.html?ref=politics

This goes at the very heart of what so many people have been fighting for for many years. It also make the case that Republicans are not fight awar against women a harder sale.

Repsentative Hoekstra has decided to stick his foot in his mouth and oppose a bill that seeks equal and fair pay for women, and in doing so has set progress in the women's movement backwards at least a decade. What goes does the representative think he is doing be opposing a law that merely seeks the American dream? Does he feels as though his opposition will strengthen his stand as a conservative? From what I have seen of the few true conservative women out there, they are a force to reckon with. Alienating them in an election year is not the best of ideas

The article has further reaching implications in addition to the present in the title. The idea of fair wages for women and men can extend to the of fair wages between the educated and less educated. It flies to the very root of the sustainable v. unsusatinable growth debate that has seem to have taken over this blog for the past few posts. The idea of fair pay across the board leads to sustainable growth for those in the work force and will lead to more economic growth than the quick fix, politically fashionable solutions being proposed by those who would argue against fair pair or a living wage. If we as an economy do not seek fair pay for women and men,then we will never reach the level of prospairity of European countries that do. On top of offering fair pay scales,we must offer living wages in order to grow an economy that weathers the ups and downs of our capitalistic economy better and with out the drastic booms and busts.