As is quite often the case, what is good for the sheeple is beneath the dignity of our “enlightened” political leaders. It turns out that when our current Puppet-in-Chief was a Senator, the free market worked quite well for him as far as unequal pay between the men and women on his staff.

“On average, women working in Obama’s Senate office were paid at least $6,000 below the average man working for the Illinois senator. That’s according to date [sic] calculated from the Report of the Secretary of the Senate, which covered the six-month period ending Sept. 30, 2007. Of the five people in Obama’s Senate office who were paid $100,000 or more on an annual basis, only one — Obama’s administrative manager — was a woman.

The average pay for the 33 men on Obama’s staff (who earned more than $23,000, the lowest annual salary paid for non-intern employees) was $59,207. The average pay for the 31 women on Obama’s staff who earned more than $23,000 per year was $48,729.91. (The average pay for all 36 male employees on Obama’s staff was $55,962; and the average pay for all 31 female employees was $48,729. The report indicated that Obama had only one paid intern during the period, who was a male.)”

Click here and here for more details on what is obviously another news item that the New York Times didn’t feel was “fit to print.” (Thanks to Brian Gentry for bringing this to my attention.)