Posted on 05/09/2024 1:56:44 PM PDT by Macho MAGA Man
Governor Kathy Hochul announced that a $2.3 billion tax-funded grant in redevelopment contracts for JFK International Airport has been awarded exclusively to minority and women-owned business enterprises (MWBE).
MWBE stands for Minority/Women-Owned Business Enterprise. It’s a certification issued by the state that gives developmental benefits to businesses that are primarily owned and operated by a woman or a person who is at least 25% African American, Asian, Hispanic, or Native American. If the business is publicly traded, the stock must also be at least 51% minority-owned.
The move, which marks the largest participation of MWBE firms in any public-private partnership in New York’s history, has been praised by many for its focus on inclusivity.
However, some are questioning whether the DEI criteria could inadvertently sideline other considerations crucial to project success, such as experience, efficiency, and past performance
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unconstitutional discrimination
It's just playing the game to get the contracts that are being awarded in an clearly racist way.
How many small-business owners have their wife as the head of the company for this very reason?
Lots....
Don't blame them. It's a wise way to structure things.
I can hardly wait, seeing the surgeons tommorrow. ( sarc.)
Start capitalizing White.
“unconstitutional discrimination” has redress.
This is far, far worse.
This is state-sponsored racial discrimination, yelled out loudly on the steps of city hall, backed up by the very real threat of ruination / violence for the dissenters.
I don't merely mean it won't be done well or take too long. I mean tied up in court.
“This should end well.”
Forgot the /s?
Well, this should. end!
What could, possibly, go wrong?
This payout of tax payer money will fail worse than the Solar company that Obama funded.
JFK might need a renovation but to, EXCLUSIVELY, award the contract with the conditions of the awardees so narrow, is UNAMERICAN!
I taste a little vomit in my mouth!
They built the Empire State Bldg in under a Year during the depression. My family’s bricklaying company had a contract with them. Knowing them - much later in life- I am sure there were women involved in the project as their talent and experience led them. I am sure they were valuable to the effort.
I suppose men can be overwhelming at times with their way of thinking. I wirk with predominantly women in hospital work my whole life. Is there anything that makes them better at running things than men do?
Em. No.
To put anyone in charge of a project because of their appearance or their basic biology is insanity.
I wouldn’t use any of their pedestrian bridges over highways.
Isn’t that what Boeing thought about picking suppliers of critical parts?
Western governments: “White males should just die already.”
And the sub contractors all donate to the Democrats and have Union workers, which mean even more money to the Democrats.
how is this even Constitutional?
And you’d think they would have learned their lesson.
How about women in charge of war planning?
Official government discrimination.
Democrats never learn.
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