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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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1 posted on 01/15/2024 8:25:28 AM PST by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber

I can’t see what could possibly go wrong.


2 posted on 01/15/2024 8:25:42 AM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page. More photos added.)
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To: MtnClimber

Just apply as a democRAT and the problem is solved.


3 posted on 01/15/2024 8:29:34 AM PST by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
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To: MtnClimber

Well we had a guy at our church who would wear a Superman t-shirt and wanted to fly to California without mechanical assistance. That is, he thought he could fly just like Superman.

So he’d probably be a good match for the FAA. If a plane was in trouble he could just fly up, grab the fuselage and bring the aircraft safely back to the airport.

(He did wind up in a psychiatric hospital after a while)


4 posted on 01/15/2024 8:29:37 AM PST by packagingguy
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To: MtnClimber

So, they’re looking for woke Democrats.


5 posted on 01/15/2024 8:29:53 AM PST by jacknhoo (Luke 12:51; Think ye, that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, no; but separation.)
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To: MtnClimber

You could get twice as much work out of a bi-polar person.

Is it wrong to take advantage like that?


6 posted on 01/15/2024 8:30:03 AM PST by Delta 21 (If anyone is treasonous, it is those who call me such.)
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To: MtnClimber

I imagine they will be easy to find out of Biden’s 10 Million illegals.


7 posted on 01/15/2024 8:30:14 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (Remember what happened last time we brought in forced labor. Support Abbott's Underground RR.)
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To: MtnClimber

I feel sorry for anyone who has to fly these days.

I also feel sorry for humor sites such as the Babylon Bee. The stuff coming out of the Biden administration is simply insane. How can a satire writer possibly keep up?


8 posted on 01/15/2024 8:31:55 AM PST by Leaning Right (The steal is real.)
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To: MtnClimber
Air traffic control test


9 posted on 01/15/2024 8:32:00 AM PST by z3n (Kakistocracy)
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To: MtnClimber

So much of what government does is crazy.
Maybe hiring an actual crazy person will help.


10 posted on 01/15/2024 8:32:23 AM PST by DannyTN
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The job posting should read: “If you can’t do the job, or are a severe danger to yourself or other people, WE WANT YOU! Follow the link to apply.”

“Sane and capable people, especially White/Christian/male/hetero don’t bother applying. You won’t get the job”.

And this is how a great country eliminates itself.


11 posted on 01/15/2024 8:33:35 AM PST by I want the USA back (Delusionary people should not be given power over normal people.)
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Sorry folks - the ONLY way to reform Fed.gov and save the republic is Fed.gov bankruptcy.

The insanity and corruption, grown and maintained by massive printed fiat money and debt - is too far gone.

It will be awful, akin to what the Russians went through when the Soviet Union collapsed - but as they showed us, its the only way out of a corrupt, centralized (neo) Marxist system. Luckily we have Federalism and States to pick up the pieces.


12 posted on 01/15/2024 8:33:41 AM PST by PGR88
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13 posted on 01/15/2024 8:33:49 AM PST by DannyTN
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The FAA says people with ‘severe’ disabilities are the most under-represented segment of the federal workforce.

That's a BIG LIE.

Far and away, the most under-represented segment of the federal workforce is INTELLIGENT PEOPLE.

14 posted on 01/15/2024 8:35:07 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (“Occupy your mind with good thoughts or your enemy will fill them with bad ones.” ~ Thomas More)
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To: DannyTN

Dwight and Ron Swanson dispense valuable life advice.


15 posted on 01/15/2024 8:35:23 AM PST by EEGator
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"Dwight and Ron Swanson dispense valuable life advice."

Yes they do!!! lol

16 posted on 01/15/2024 8:36:35 AM PST by DannyTN
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To: MtnClimber

This is just one reason I don’t travel by airplane and never will again. The last flight I took was like hell in the sky. Between the sardine like packed plane and snarky flight attendants, I swore I would never fly again. That was 10 years ago. I haven’t changed my mind.


17 posted on 01/15/2024 8:38:22 AM PST by JoJo354 (We are the revolution....)
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To: MtnClimber

But isn’t this the same government that believes Trump supporters, “right wing extremists”, “bitter clingers” and religious people are mentally ill? Looks like an opportunity.


18 posted on 01/15/2024 8:38:45 AM PST by mikey_hates_everything
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To: MtnClimber

More here:

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4210328/posts

🛫🛬


19 posted on 01/15/2024 8:41:38 AM PST by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this💩? 🚫💉! 🇮🇱👍!)
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To: GOPJ; poconopundit; Jane Long; Diana in Wisconsin; Grampa Dave; Godzilla; Vaduz; null and void; ...

NOT THE BEE

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

The targeted disabilities initiative is part of the Biden FAA’s ‘Diversity and Inclusion’ hiring plan, which claims ‘diversity is integral to achieving Biden’s FAA’s mission of ensuring safe and efficient travel across our nation and beyond.

The Biden FAA’s website shows guidelines on diversity hiring were last updated on March 23, 2022.


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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.


20 posted on 01/15/2024 8:42:34 AM PST by Liz
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