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Glen B Smith
To:Lou Newton
Aug 7 at 1:09 PM
Should the US Ladies soccer team (USWNT) be paid the same as the men's team?
Absolutely not!
However, the media has made an issue that the women's team should be paid the same as the men.
This is a story about the feminist agenda of the media and not the US women's soccer team and the issue that so called "journalist" failed to check before rushing to present "their" story.
This story is about the business of professional soccer. If the business did not generate any money or profit it might not continue as a business. It would go bankrupt. The women of the USWNT ought to be paid whatever they can wrangle from US Soccer – and they have.
U.S. Soccer President Carlos Cordeiro has claimed the women’s team generated less gross revenue than the men’s team from 2009 to 2019 and that women’s games resulted in a net loss of $27.5 million for the federation over an 11-year span. Should these losses be reflected in the women's pay? That remains a business decision as negotiated between players and U.S. Soccer.
According to a letter released Monday, July 29, 2019 by U.S. Soccer President Carlos Cordeiro, the federation has paid out $34.1 million in salary and game bonuses to the women. Those figures do not include the benefits received only by the women, like health care and paid maternity leave.
According to this same letter released Monday, July 29, 2019 by U.S. Soccer President Carlos Cordeiro, the federation has paid $26.4 million paid to the men. The men do not receive a salary or health benefits as do the women. Men players have individual contracts with U.S. Soccer.
US Women soccer - $34.1 million which includes a salary plus benefits including health and paid maternity leave.
US Men soccer - 26.4 million paid as contracts agreed to by players.
Difference in favor of the women by 7.7 million plus the benefits.
Where is this story in the national media stage? The Washington Post ran this story, but we did not hear this as important news like it was when the media assumed the men received more compensation than the women. Why? The suspicion is because it did not agree with their cultural, social, political, religious presumptions which the media never admits to but is their "hidden" agenda.
Should the US Ladies soccer team (USWNT) be paid the same as the men's team?
Absolutely not!
The women should not have their compensation reduced to that of the men just because U.S. Soccer has a net loss of $27.5 million on the women's team over the past 11 years. Let them go bankrupt. That is business in the capitalist system.
07 August 2019 the old scribe
To:Lou Newton
Aug 7 at 1:09 PM
Should the US Ladies soccer team (USWNT) be paid the same as the men's team?
Absolutely not!
However, the media has made an issue that the women's team should be paid the same as the men.
This is a story about the feminist agenda of the media and not the US women's soccer team and the issue that so called "journalist" failed to check before rushing to present "their" story.
This story is about the business of professional soccer. If the business did not generate any money or profit it might not continue as a business. It would go bankrupt. The women of the USWNT ought to be paid whatever they can wrangle from US Soccer – and they have.
U.S. Soccer President Carlos Cordeiro has claimed the women’s team generated less gross revenue than the men’s team from 2009 to 2019 and that women’s games resulted in a net loss of $27.5 million for the federation over an 11-year span. Should these losses be reflected in the women's pay? That remains a business decision as negotiated between players and U.S. Soccer.
According to a letter released Monday, July 29, 2019 by U.S. Soccer President Carlos Cordeiro, the federation has paid out $34.1 million in salary and game bonuses to the women. Those figures do not include the benefits received only by the women, like health care and paid maternity leave.
According to this same letter released Monday, July 29, 2019 by U.S. Soccer President Carlos Cordeiro, the federation has paid $26.4 million paid to the men. The men do not receive a salary or health benefits as do the women. Men players have individual contracts with U.S. Soccer.
US Women soccer - $34.1 million which includes a salary plus benefits including health and paid maternity leave.
US Men soccer - 26.4 million paid as contracts agreed to by players.
Difference in favor of the women by 7.7 million plus the benefits.
Where is this story in the national media stage? The Washington Post ran this story, but we did not hear this as important news like it was when the media assumed the men received more compensation than the women. Why? The suspicion is because it did not agree with their cultural, social, political, religious presumptions which the media never admits to but is their "hidden" agenda.
Should the US Ladies soccer team (USWNT) be paid the same as the men's team?
Absolutely not!
The women should not have their compensation reduced to that of the men just because U.S. Soccer has a net loss of $27.5 million on the women's team over the past 11 years. Let them go bankrupt. That is business in the capitalist system.
07 August 2019 the old scribe