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Steve Foley wrote:
Most of the population of the planet is something other than "hetrosexual white males" You forgot to mention the race of the technician who forgot to service the computer. Why? In fact, your story doesn't seem to support your position at all. "NotPoliticallyCorrect" wrote in message . .. Most of the management now in the FAA is something other than "hetrosexual white males" You are completely missing the point. You are hiding behind the race card and shooting the messenger. 1. The FAA was formed in 1958 by primarily white technical males from engineering colleges and the military. The FAA operates the National Airspace System. The FAA is a highly complex 24/7 function. During the Clinton administration, a massive push to hire anything but white males came along. Since Clinton took office, most white males have been belittled and run off. In other words over night a politically correct edict came out to get rid of white males. The FAA was BUILT by white males. White males have traditionally been the backbone of our technical organizations. You can't change that overnight. 2. Diversity and different ideas is a good thing when APPLIED PROPERLY. You don't fill a job based on sex or race in a critical safety of flight job you hire the best. If the FAA "wanted the best" why do they refuse to use a NUMBERED BID SYSTEM????? 3. A NUMBERED BID SYSTEM would make sure (And this applies to NASA, FBI etc. also) that only the BEST are hired. There is no bias. There is no social engineering or favoritism. The person doing the hiring has no idea of the sex, age, race of the applicant. 4. Why not? Because it would upset "Diversity" goals. And that goal is to hire women and blacks at all cost REGARDLESS of the safety or work impact with a LEFT OVER OUTDATED CLINTON Administration edict. If the FAA is so adamant about hiring the best as stated in public and in writing, why are they afraid of a NUMBERED BID SYSTEM??? I am not racist or sexist. I have a daughter and a wife and black friends. My family doctor is BLACK. However, when I am flying in a metal tube going 600 miles an hour or my family, the person up front and the people on the ground need to be THE BEST Affirmative Action and Diversity is destroying America, NASA, the FBI, the FAA and our Government. IT IS WRONG If 10 jobs come open on a NUMBERED BID SYSTEM and they are filled by all black females, so be it. They are qualified. But when you hire JUST to meet a QUOTA you DO NOT get the best. Example. When the edict came down back in the early 90's during the Al Gore re-inventing Government, blacks and women continued to flunk out of the FAA Academy. Some of the schools I attended in the FAA Academy were similar to high level college engineering and physics courses. What was the solution?? LOWER THE STANDARDS I personally witnessed 2 people flunk out of the FAA Academy. One was Black (Female) and one was White (Male) The white male was fired. The Black Female was not only "Accommodated" in a lesser technical job, she continued on to management and a high paying job. Is that right? Do you promote fairness in an organization like that? IF?? the FAA is serious about SAFETY, they will go to a NUMBERED BID SYSTEM for all their critical safety functions It WILL take public pressure for that to happen however. It WILL NOT come from within the FAA because the mediocrity is firmly entrenched I have no idea what the sex or race of the recent incidents were. However, I know what the FAA is now. I spent 27 years with them. It is serious and a dangerous situation. A numbered bid system is the only fix. As long as diversity and affirmative action poisons critical Government jobs, the chaos like New Orleans and the near disaster in LA and Las Vegas will continue. Until one day WHAM. Lot's of DEAD people. |
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"NotPoliticallyCorrect" wrote in message news ![]() You are hiding behind the race card and shooting the messenger. Because the messenger is a racist! I am not racist Looks like a duck, sounds like a duck............. |
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4. Why not? Because it would upset "Diversity" goals. And that goal is
to hire women and blacks at all cost REGARDLESS of the safety or work impact with a LEFT OVER OUTDATED CLINTON Administration edict. If the FAA is so adamant about hiring the best as stated in public and in writing, why are they afraid of a NUMBERED BID SYSTEM??? You suppose this is the background reason the Bush administration is trying to contract out all the government services? What kind of organizations do you suppose have the resources to win the contracts? :-)) |
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"john smith" wrote in message ... 4. Why not? Because it would upset "Diversity" goals. And that goal is to hire women and blacks at all cost REGARDLESS of the safety or work impact with a LEFT OVER OUTDATED CLINTON Administration edict. If the FAA is so adamant about hiring the best as stated in public and in writing, why are they afraid of a NUMBERED BID SYSTEM??? You suppose this is the background reason the Bush administration is trying to contract out all the government services? What kind of organizations do you suppose have the resources to win the contracts? :-)) Any company that won a government (FAA) contract would have to have the same Affirmative Action rules in place that the FAA has. The US has given up being a meritocracy (a very distinguishing American characteristic) LONG ago. When government fails, the cry is not to scrap it and build anew, it's to give even more money and resources. In the present form of cronyism, the same status afflicts the world of commerce (HP being a most obvious example). -- Matt --------------------- Matthew W. Barrow Site-Fill Homes, LLC. Montrose, CO |
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"Matt Barrow" wrote in message
... Any company that won a government (FAA) contract would have to have the same Affirmative Action rules in place that the FAA has. The US has given up being a meritocracy (a very distinguishing American characteristic) LONG ago. America went from slavery to segregation to affirmative action. At which point along that path did we "give up" on meritocracy, in your surreal opinion? |
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