Thanks God - for Liberals

Yesterday, the U.S. House of Representatives passed two pieces of legislation designed to correct injustices for working women.

Remember Lilly Ledbetter? She was the lady who worked for Goodyear who was cheated by the company by being paid less than all the men who did the same job as she.

When she found out that the company had cheated her, she tried to get what was coming to her. The lousy company refused. The case went all the way to the Supreme Court.

Being comprised of mostly right-wing conservatives who only vote for those things that cause human pain, misery, suffering or death, the Supreme Court ruled against her saying she didn’t file her complaint within six months of her finding out she had been cheated by her bosses. This of course, has allowed other right wing conservative CEO’s to continue doing the same thing to other working women.

Well here’s the good news:

The first bill passed was the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Act. This would overturn the Supreme Court’s hate filled decision.

The second bill passed was the Paycheck Fairness Act which should put stiffer penalties into broken laws by the worker hating companies.

Many thanks to Indiana’s liberal Congressmen Andre Carson, Joe Donnelly, Pete Visclosky, Brad Ellsworth and Baron Hill for knowing right from wrong and voting for workers on both of these bills.

Here’s the bad news:

Right wing conservative worker haters Mike Pence, Mark Souder, Steve Buyer and Dan Burton voted against workers. These are the four Indiana Congressmen who don’t deserve to be re-elected and instead need to be booted out.

Although the country has indicated that we want change in Washington, these two votes are an indication that the job of taking back our country hasn’t been completed. We’ve got more to do.

The right winger conservatives in the U.S. Senate will probably vote against workers and try to defeat these two bills. This indicates to me that the Employee Free Choice Act, which would help workers organize unions is in for a rough time from those who hate workers in our country. One reason for this is the fact that when workers have a union, employers wouldn't dare try to pay women less than men for doing the same job.

Fortunately we now have a good, smart, liberal, worker friendly president-elect, Barack Obama who is on the side of workers.