24. Eliminated Catch-22 in Pay Equality Laws: Signed Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act in 2009, giving women who are paid less than men for the same work the right to sue their employers after they find out about the discrimination, even if that discrimination happened years ago. Under previous law, as interpreted by the Supreme Court in Ledbetter v. Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., the statute of limitations on such suits ran out 180 days after the alleged discrimination occurred, even if the victims never knew about it.You can spin it or turn it around and claim that anybody who's trying to get the same rights as everybody else is "pushing a radical agenda" or "wants special rights" or whatever, but that's just truly empty political word vomit. There's absolutely nothing weird or out of the ordinary about wanting to be treated fairly.
So wait a minute. Hey, GOP - are you saying that keeping people down is actually the way it should be? The way you want it to be? Do you really mean that we need to maintain a system that ensures inequality so some of us will always enjoy an advantage that others don't have and will never even have a shot at getting?
You're saying the Republican Party no longer stands for values like Fairness and Equality.
And you're saying the Republican Party doesn't support the notion that people caught breaking the law should be held to account for it.
That's what you're saying.
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