Marcia Heroux Pounds The Sun Sentinel

April 11, 2018

Marcia Heroux Pounds

The Sun Sentinel

RE: “Florida women earn 13 percent less than men.

        Yearly wage gap totals about $5,474”

Ms. Pounds,

At least that’s what the Sun Sentinel article, the one with your name on it, said today. Before I ask the obvious question, the one unanswered question lingering like a fart in church, I must state the obvious. I quickly add that stating the obvious was/is the key to Trollope’s success.

Since the data you use to posit your theory that in 2017 women earn 13% less than men, with the main reason being that women are not comfortable peeing standing up, can we stipulate that Trump had nothing to do with this? His immediate predecessor blamed his predecessor for crossed red lines, missed “gimmee” putts, his daughters’ chipped teeth, and his failure to discover the elusive Holy Grail-like Austrian-English dictionary-cum-thesaurus, for 87 of his 96-month reign. Let the record show that, in reverse chronological order, it was Obama, whose daughters went to an unbelievably expensive, snooty and snotty public school, a haven for the 1%ers while Bush’s daughters went to a public school. 

The obvious question is really obvious. It is Orwell obvious.

Let’s assume that the day you were hired by the Sun Sentinel a male with the same academic credentials and work/life experiences was also hired. Were you paid 13% less than he was? The obvious follow-up question why are there any men working, if, as you state, women are paid 13% less than men? Wouldn’t a bankrupt company be better off, salary-wise, if they only hired women?

An intriguing thought has just appeared. If the KGB had not convinced, whatshername, Hillary to not campaign in Wisconsin, Michigan, and Ohio, and she had won, would she have been paid 13% less than her predecessor?

Do you know of any public employee – local, county, state, federal – who is paid 13% less than her male counterparts?

Here’s a plan for gender equity on the big stage. How about a game between the winners of the NCAA basketball tournaments?

I will be seeing a female surgeon Wednesday next. Does she earn 13% less than any of her testosterone enhanced contemporaries? Should I ask her? If she is, should I increase her co-pay?

My daughter has 2 degrees and 2 professional licenses. She also has 3 daughters. When she works I ask you to accept on faith that she is not paid 13% less than any of her contemporaries, regardless of their gender or even of their sexual orientation She has no peers.

If you put her into the category labeled “females, working part time” she makes more than 13% less than “females, working full time”. Her pay per unit is the same as any other similarly licensed professional. To suggest otherwise is, as we recently learned of a new euphemism, “a lack of candor”.

Do you remember when the USA and the USSR had dual track meets? In one of them the United States, AKA “the good guys”, [guys also covered gals] shut out the Russkies, regardless of which Socialist Republic they were from. The Russians reported it thus: “In a recent international track meet the glorious athletes of the Mother Russia honored the rodinya by finishing second. The not so swift running dogs of capitalism finished next to last.”

Lies, damn lies, and the last refuge of modern American Liberals trying to prove a point that is, from the “copy-book headings” of Logic unprovable, statistics. 

Go figure.

Kevin Smith

WARRIORBARDIT@BELLSOUTH.NET