Posted on 09/20/2019 10:49:14 AM PDT by rktman
In the 47 years since the last man set foot on the moon, the space program has changed a great deal. One of those changes has been incorporating mandated affirmative action policies. These policies have had an incredibly negative effect on both the progress in the space program and the engineers whose careers have been destroyed by them.
The federal government mandates that a given percentage of work on a government contract go to minority-owned businesses. When building a large and complicated system like a space vehicle, it is almost impossible for a company like Boeing or Lockheed to meet this requirement by hiring out specific design work to small, minority-owned companies. Even if that were feasible, those companies do not exist.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
That’s why the Negroes had their own space program.
Admit it, y’all came here just for this....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6xJzAYYrX8
Whitey on the moon:
These days _nobody_ is going on a manned lunar mission.
(Lots of brave talk, but no action...)
Genius mocumentary.
Can’t we all just claim things like Elizabeth Warren?
“It was a different time, you understand, 1957 or 58”
NASA’s New Mission and the Cult of Management
Read more at https://www.airspacemag.com/daily-planet/nasas-new-mission-and-the-cult-of-management-155873900/#huhreI66thgb7vsQ.99
the revolution will not be televised (1971)
gil scott heron
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGaoXAwl9kw
Great link—thanks.
I am retired from .gov now, but all attempts to “reform” management have been catastrophic failures, because senior managers _want_ them to fail.
Nothing crushes morale quicker than lip service to continuous improvement while everything gets worse and worse.
Trump hasn’t even attempted to take on _that_ issue, and I don’t really blame him.
Slashing budgets is the only language these agencies understand.
Their “mission” is powerpoint slides and meetings pretending they are doing something (and lobbying for more money).
You can have excellence or affirmative action but you can’t have both...
Nope, not a chance. Just visit the houston space center and watch the 2019 movie “Apollo 11” and you will understand how far we have fallen.
“One of those changes has been incorporating mandated affirmative action policies. These policies have had an incredibly negative effect on both the progress in the space program and the engineers whose careers have been destroyed by them.”
How can that be? According to FR’s clown car defeatists, federal employees are all 10-foot-tall Rambos with Einstein brain power.
Well, that would be me but, I was a subcontractor to NASA so there’s that.................. LOL! Have a good weekend.
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