Posted on 05/20/2014 5:08:13 PM PDT by blam
There was an article here on FR a couple weeks ago stating that if the Black on Black murder were subtracted from all US stats, the murder rate in the US would plunge by 75%.
A tax-detuctible conference, one can be assured, a business expense for an educator.
now see, I’d have been bolder. I’d have asked them to prove I wasn’t a mixed race black and how dare they confront me, and then back and watch their heads explode
and then ‘sit back’ and watch their heads explode (at the thought - not literally)
They already have via our tax burden to pay for entitlements.
Obama is hiring minorities now to replace the White air traffic controllers, no matter what their qualifications are to do the job. The FAA officials are publicly stating that this is their hiring plan, but privately a few in the FAA are saying that this policy change came directly from the White House.
FAA’s shift in hiring raises concerns
Air traffic controllers are now picked solely from the public, not college programs that the agency fostered
By Jon Hilkevitch, Tribune reporter
May 27, 2014
Brittany Powers graduated this month with a college degree that prepared her for a job as an air traffic controller, chasing a dream that began when she was a teenager.
“I was 13 or 14 and our family was driving past O’Hare on our way to Six Flags (amusement park) and I asked my mom what they do up in the tower,” said Powers, now 22, of Plainfield.
But the honors student at Lewis University in Romeoville has already been passed over by her prospective employer, the Federal Aviation Administration, solely because of her answers on a new “biographical assessment’’ that includes questions about how peers would describe the individual and the age at which the person started to earn money.
It’s the result of an abrupt overhaul this year to the FAA’s air traffic controller hiring policy, which for almost 25 years gave preferred status to aviation graduates like Powers as well as former military controllers. Now, the FAA is conducting an off-the-street recruiting process for all candidates. It begins with the assessment, which is open to most people with a high school diploma.
FAA officials have defended the policy, saying ...
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