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FAA looking for people with ‘severe’ psychiatric problems to diversify the agency’s workforce
American Thinker ^ | 15 Jan, 2024 | Jack Hellner

Posted on 01/15/2024 8:25:28 AM PST by MtnClimber

The Federal Aviation Administration now says that the way to make the skies safer is to make their workforce more diverse, including hiring people with “severe” intellectual disabilities and psychiatric disabilities. No, this is not satire; see below, via Fox News:

FAA’s diversity push includes focus on hiring people with ‘severe intellectual’ and ‘psychiatric’ disabilities

The FAA says people with ‘severe’ disabilities are the most under-represented segment of the federal workforce.

The Federal Aviation Administration is actively recruiting workers who suffer "severe intellectual" disabilities, psychiatric problems and other mental and physical conditions under a diversity and inclusion hiring initiative spelled out on the agency’s website.

‘Targeted disabilities are those disabilities that the Federal government, as a matter of policy, has identified for special emphasis in recruitment and hiring,’ the FAA’s website states. ‘They include hearing, vision, missing extremities, partial paralysis, complete paralysis, epilepsy, severe intellectual disability, psychiatric disability and dwarfism.’

The initiative is part of the FAA’s ‘Diversity and Inclusion’ hiring plan, which claims ‘diversity is integral to achieving FAA's mission of ensuring safe and efficient travel across our nation and beyond.; The FAA’s website shows the agency’s guidelines on diversity hiring were last updated on March 23, 2022.

Heaven forbid that the government should focus their hiring on people that are smart, have experience, and who are not in need of a psychiatrist.

This astounding statement and focus by the FAA made me understand what is wrong with so much of the Biden administration: It’s full of people who lack the mental capacity to handle their job.

The Defense secretary, and the rest of the war cabinet, apparently doesn’t have enough intellectual capacity to know that you should inform someone, especially the president, when you are going to be out, especially if that “out” means incapacitated...

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Society
KEYWORDS: aviation; diversity; faa; flying; reckless; wokeism
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To: Liz
MESSAGE: Does the Biden govt ever focus their hiring on people that are smart, have experience, and who are not in need of a psychiatrist? This astounding targeted disabilities initiative by the Biden FAA illustrates what is wrong with so much of the Biden administration: It’s full of people who lack the mental capacity to handle their job.

Ask yourself - who benefits from our country being broken and destabilized? What country? What group?

Biden and his goons are NOT doing this for the benefit of people with mental problems...

41 posted on 01/15/2024 10:00:28 AM PST by GOPJ (FoxNews Lawrence Jones needs to visit Black, Hispanic and Asian breakfast places too.Let's get real)
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To: MtnClimber

FAA looking for people like Sniffer.


42 posted on 01/15/2024 10:49:13 AM PST by depressed in 06
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To: oldplayer

ping


43 posted on 01/15/2024 11:13:46 AM PST by GOPJ (FoxNews Lawrence Jones needs to visit Black, Hispanic and Asian breakfast places too.Let's get real)
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To: MtnClimber

The FAA is launching a new campaign to hire people with "'severe intellectual' disabilities". This is the man,
John P. Benison, in charge of the effort. BTW these people run the control towers ...pic.twitter.com/X1njc2K9aE— Andrew Wilkow (@WilkowMajority) January 15, 2024


44 posted on 01/15/2024 11:15:32 AM PST by Jane Long (What we were told was a conspiracy theory in ‘20 is now fact. Land of the sheep, home of the knaves)
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To: Jane Long
Those glasses!

That he would see those on a display rack and pay actual money for them?

There is a lesson there...

45 posted on 01/15/2024 12:09:43 PM PST by jonascord (First rule of the Dunning-Kruger Club is that you do not know you are in the Dunning-Kruger club.)
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To: MtnClimber

“McNamara’s 100,000” of the 1960s updated.


46 posted on 01/15/2024 12:27:02 PM PST by CDB
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To: MtnClimber

The FAA is simply seeking parity with the rest of the Federal government.


47 posted on 01/15/2024 2:29:16 PM PST by MrBambaLaMamba (The only good commie is one that's dead - Country Joe McDonald)
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To: jonascord

Reminds me of one of my dear cousins … she had some very different looking glasses on and I asked, Are those new glasses? She said, You’re the only one who’s said anything about them. They must look bad. 🥲

She then mentioned that she’d had her sis (ultra libtard), on FaceTime, while selecting the new frames. I said, Next time, FaceTime with me. 😂


48 posted on 01/15/2024 2:29:39 PM PST by Jane Long (What we were told was a conspiracy theory in ‘20 is now fact. Land of the sheep, home of the knaves)
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To: MtnClimber

Are we real sure that there’s not already too much diversity in that area?


49 posted on 01/15/2024 3:06:16 PM PST by oldtech
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To: Liz

Perhaps people with these problems are needed to help determine the specific travel problems and needs of persons with specific disabilities. If they are serving as informers for studies of these traveler’s specific problems it might make sense. Some certainly would not be suitable for planning and control jobs. On the other hand, dwarfism or missing limbs might not preclude doing certain mental jobs.


50 posted on 01/18/2024 6:04:26 PM PST by gleeaikin ( Question authority.)
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