Posted on 04/08/2024 5:10:03 AM PDT by MtnClimber
This must have been what it was like when the Roman Empire collapsed.
Daniel Greenfield ping
I Read recently we could contract our defense shipbuilding to Japan and South Korea. Imagine that. It’s delays and cost overruns on our end. Those countries don’t have that problem.
We’ve all seen it coming. Just look at all the Toyotas and Kias on the road.
We’re in the “looting the treasury” phase of societal collapse.
I cannot watch it. I just can’t. It fills me with rage.
I have decided to just call the denizens of the Swamp/Deep State "Looters".
Is it the engineers or the union labor?
Weapon System acquisition is hopelessly FUBAR’d.
Everything costs too much. Everything is behind schedule. Sustainment isn’t really planned for.
You’re looking at companies like Boeing and Raytheon to do excellent work. They can’t. And the DOD does not really care, at a fundamental level. It’s all about money flowing from this place to that place.
DEI is part of this problem, but this goes back at least to the mid 1990s and Defense Secretary William Perry’s decision to ban military specifications and standards. It’s been downhill from there and it gets worse all the time.
Actually, the way the article is written seems to conflate two things, the DEI on the one hand and the “damning report” on the other. The report is one of the most impressively honest things I’ve seen in years, and done in 45 days with a one page summary. As far as I could see, it’s not suggesting DEI to fix the ship building delays.
We may no longer have a US Navy capable of taking on China, and “hating
whitey” is de rigeur, but at least everyone is respecting everyone else’s pronouns.
“We believe that when a diverse group of individuals come together to do a job, they can do it better because of their differences.”
Moronic statement.
But that's not what DEI is about. The limiting factor of DEI is "equality of outcome."
Sacrificing high-performance standards for "equality of outcome" is like a marathon race wherein all athletes must finish with the slowest runner.
Outcome is limited to the lowest common denominator of competence, conscientiousness, and intelligence.
You don’t need a navy to crush internal dissent, so it’s being let go.
Even if they build, commission and accept these new vessels, where are they going to get competent personnel to “person” them?
He did........................
Nothing is more "systemically racist" than DEI.
DEI automatically assumes that black people are less competent and incapable of achieving high-performance standards. Ergo, high-performance standards must be reduced to gave them a chance.
That's racist to the core.
Similar situation, different cause, same outcome............
I know what you mean… However, I view many of the problems in industry and the US military (specifically the Navy, as a former sailor) As part and parcel of the same thing.
Absolutely everything from ships colliding In the south China Sea to delays and repairs of naval ships, I think can be completely tied to the lack of competency,
Which is directly tied to the trend of hiring people based on the color of their skin or their sex, rather than their competency at the skill needed to navigate a ship or manage a ship repair or ship building program.
I viewed this DEI bullshit as one of the most critical problems facing our nation because it has tentacles into just about everything from politics to the military to Medical processes.
The left has baked DEI into everything, and the only thing that will get us out of it is a catastrophe of some kind in my opinion. That catastrophe may be a war we get our clock cleaned, or financial catastrophe. But I do think that’s what it’s going to take.
I understand that is a pessimistic view. I just don’t know how to see it any other way.
It's almost as if some enemy state came up with a plan to rot out our military from the inside...
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