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TSA Wants to Hire ‘Economically Disadvantaged Woman Owned Small Business’ (for $30M contract)
Washington Free Beacon ^ | December 18, 2013 | Elizabeth Harrington

Posted on 12/19/2013 3:36:51 AM PST by Zakeet

The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is looking exclusively for an “economically disadvantaged woman owned small business” when it awards its next $30 million contract for security training.

The agency announced a solicitation for a company to conduct training for its Inter-Modal Security and Training Exercise Program (I-Step) last week.

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Contracting offices are required to set quotas for hiring EDWOSBs by the Small Business Act, which was enacted in January. According to the law, women are “subjected to discrimination in entrepreneurial endeavors due to their gender” and it is “in the national interest” to “remove discriminatory barriers.”

The act sets government-wide goals that at least 23 percent of all contracts must be awarded to businesses owned by service-disabled veterans, “socially and economically disadvantaged individuals,” and women.

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


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: discrimination; hiring; training; tsa

Men aren't going to be subjected to discrimination in entrepreneurial endeavors due to their gender by being excluded from consideration for this job ... cause they don't know nearly as much as women do about law enforcement and security training!

1 posted on 12/19/2013 3:36:51 AM PST by Zakeet
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To: Zakeet

....I’m sure they will find another college buddy of Chewie


2 posted on 12/19/2013 3:38:58 AM PST by Doogle (USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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To: Zakeet

Well, there’s always Nancy Pelosi. She’s ‘economically retarded’, so she qualifies for this contract.


3 posted on 12/19/2013 3:43:14 AM PST by rfp1234 (Impeach We Much!)
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To: Doogle

“An economically disadvantaged woman is one who earns less than $350,000 a year, with a net worth not greater than $750,000.”

I just love that part. That’s probably 99.8 % of american females.


4 posted on 12/19/2013 3:50:24 AM PST by Artie (We are surrounded by MORONS)
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To: Artie

Most of these types of contracts are let to insider cronies who have a front-partner that fits the requirements. They create a company with this woman as an owner (i.e., 0ver 50%) and they do nothing but front the business and collect.


5 posted on 12/19/2013 3:53:38 AM PST by Gaffer
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To: Zakeet

“The act sets government-wide goals that at least 23 percent of all contracts must be awarded to businesses owned by service-disabled veterans, “socially and economically disadvantaged individuals,” and women.”

Whew. For a mimute there I thought experience and competency would be required.


6 posted on 12/19/2013 4:18:38 AM PST by lowbridge
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To: Zakeet

“The act sets government-wide goals that at least 23 percent of all contracts must be awarded to businesses owned by service-disabled veterans, “socially and economically disadvantaged individuals,” and women.”

Whew. For a minute there I thought experience and competency would be required.


7 posted on 12/19/2013 4:18:53 AM PST by lowbridge
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To: Zakeet

well they wont be “economically disadvantaged” after they get fed $30 million taxpayer dollars, will they?

Sounds like the grantor already has an obama crony in mind for this one

btw, what does the jargon “economically disadvantaged” mean?
Black? Brown? Yellow? No Ivy league degrees?


8 posted on 12/19/2013 4:23:36 AM PST by silverleaf (Age takes a toll: Please have exact change)
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To: silverleaf
“economically disadvantaged”...

That screams of racisim to me. Hypocrites!

9 posted on 12/19/2013 4:27:17 AM PST by DaveA37
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To: Zakeet
"Economically Disadvantged" is a dog whistle. It really means: shhhhh..... non-white. Now if this "Economically Disadvantged" non-white woman was also Muslim, she would no longer qualify. Not only would she exceed the "small business" qualification, she could have so much "Obama Business" that she could exceed Google in size.
10 posted on 12/19/2013 6:53:33 AM PST by norwaypinesavage (Galileo: In science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of one individual)
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To: norwaypinesavage

Let’s see Blind, Muslim, African-American, Handicapped Lesbian.

I think that should cover all the bases.


11 posted on 12/19/2013 6:54:55 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: silverleaf

It means crony of the Obamas.
And it means black as well.

Yesterday there was a thread where the affirmative action crowd was trying to get white women excluded from affirmative action programs.


12 posted on 12/19/2013 6:57:17 AM PST by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: MrB
Yesterday there was a thread where the affirmative action crowd was trying to get white women excluded from affirmative action programs.

Not surprising, but if put into action and widely publicized, could create fatal electoral backlash. A lot of white women love Obama and have been taken in by the "war on women." If it was seen to be a war on white women, they might think differently.

13 posted on 12/19/2013 7:04:25 AM PST by Pearls Before Swine
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