Posted on 02/02/2025 4:37:40 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
What do you think of the following information about the hiring of air traffic controllers? Candidates “whose worst subject in high school was science [and who played a lot of sports] and candidates who are unemployed receive the most points possible on the test” (for the position), wrote The Blaze in 2018. “In contrast, licensed pilots and those with extensive air traffic control knowledge aren’t highly scored.” How could this be?
It was the result of “diversity” efforts — what’s now called DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion) — instituted under Barack Obama and continued by Joe Biden. It gets worse, though, too.
These Obama-era DEI efforts also created a Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) push to hire people who are deaf, blind, and/or have “severe intellectual” and “psychiatric disabilities.”
It’s obvious why the above is again in the news. With the tragic air disaster Wednesday near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport in Arlington, Virginia, accusations are flying left and right. (And Left and Right.) The collision, which left no survivors, was between an army Black Hawk helicopter and an American Airlines passenger jet. Other than that, however, not much is known as of this writing, so blame cannot at present be definitively assigned. But then there’s something else we can know:
Good policy is good policy — and bad policy is bad policy.
And dumbing down the air traffic controller corps and FAA personnel (or anything else) with DEI schemes is bad policy.
“Elections Have Consequences”
Obama sure was right about one thing. “Elections have consequences,” he said shortly after his 2009 presidential inauguration. And a consequence of the last election is that President Donald Trump has been trying to undo the DEI consequences of Obama’s and Biden’s elections. Regarding those latter consequences,...
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May Obeyme and Xiden never know peace again.
The chopper, in clear weather, likely RADAR equipped, rose too high and smacked the CRJ.
DEI needs to DIE before more people DIE because of DEI!!!!!
That stupid test was only in the Obama era and was canceled in 2016. Trump should have fired the FAA boss already in 2017.
My thoughts exactly!
Imagine this, if the high end have been altered can you imagine the low end such as mechanics that service and repair the planes
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