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What ever happened to hiring the best and brightest? You know... you work hard, get good grades, and apply for that job knowing that the company would be stupid not to hire you. I guess those were the good old days, because talent, merit, and ability don't seem to matter. Just look at Barack Obama's new guidelines for hiring government workers, and you'll see that diversity trumps ability.
As noted in the Associated Press story on GOPUSA, Obama signed an executive order late last week "directing federal officials to design a government-wide strategy for making the federal workforce more diverse." Are you kidding me? America's economy is in the toilet; our schools (despite decades of liberal control) rank far behind other nations; and Obama's plan is to make the workplace more diverse.
The three-page order directs the head of the Office of Personnel Management, a deputy director at the Office of Management and Budget, the President's Management Council and the chairman of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to develop the strategy within 90 days. Agencies then have 120 days to work the plan into their hiring and recruiting.
Who in the world deemed "diversity" to be some kind of virtue anyway? I mean... if you looked at resumes and interviewed people behind a screen so that you never saw the color of their skin, and if you hired based on their past experiences and how they presented themselves, wouldn't that be the most fair way of doing it? Wasn't the whole idea of a colorblind society to actually take race out of the equation? If you promote someone simply based on race, then by definition, you are holding someone back simply based on race. That is wrong!
The Washington Times has an excellent editorial about Obama's diversity mandate.
President Obama's new order instructs federal agencies to design new strategies for hiring, promoting and keeping workers of "diverse" backgrounds. The diversity the government is seeking is not diversity of ideas, outlooks or work experiences. In contemporary political parlance, "diversity" refers primarily to the color of one's skin and not the content of one's character. The executive order says the federal government "must create a culture that encourages collaboration, flexibility and fairness to enable individuals to participate to their full potential." In the name of "fairness," however, the government will intensify programs that discriminate against white Americans by extending special privileges to everyone else. The order also says that "attaining a diverse, qualified workforce is one of the cornerstones of the merit-based civil service," though merit and ability are not the metrics of choice when measuring success in diversity-driven career programs.
That last quote really has me scratching my head. A diverse workforce is the cornerstone of the merit-based civil service? How completely insane. The statement doesn't even make sense. If you want to hire based on merit, then take race OUT of the picture. Hire the best people. Period.
With the election of Barack Obama, the liberals were singing in the streets. They said he would be the first "post racial" president. (Whatever that means.) Actually, what they meant by that was that was America could now move beyond race. Ha! What a joke. That last thing liberals want is for America to move beyond race. But, as we can see... affirmative action is alive and well in the Obama administration. No matter how you look at it, if you hire someone over someone else using race as a factor, that's discrimination.
August 22, 2011 @ 9:10 am
EEO—affirmative action—diversity—hmmmmmmm—is this why I have been out of work for 18 months and can’t seem to get a job??
We’re seeing federally mandated reverse discrimination—but since whites are the target, I suppose that’s okay. But then, since unemployment among Blacks is about 50%, this moronic a$$ will reach into his bag of tricks at a critical moment in his Presidential career and pull out what??—well, what do you know—the race card—yet again.
Never mind what little he has done up until this point—this is intended to give minorities—mostly Blacks—the impression that he is working on their behalf to improve joblessness—albeit among that particular group. The rest of us are collateral damage.
Thank you, Mr President, for stating in a roundabout way that I am white trash.
August 22, 2011 @ 10:27 am
“since unemployment among Blacks is about 50%”
No, unemployment among black yoofs is about 50%.
August 22, 2011 @ 1:19 pm
As O has said; we (white people) have not suffered enough for what “we” did to the blacks.
I would say that was pulling out the “race” card.
August 22, 2011 @ 3:18 pm
True story.
Grandma was trying to get some answers from city hall on her water bill. She kept asking the person on the phone to repeat what she was saying as she couldn’t understand them. Finally in complete frustration she demanded to speak to a white person. They got her someone she could understand.
I guess she didn’t ax them the right question.
Get ready for some more lowest common denominator employees.
August 22, 2011 @ 4:00 pm
Texasfarmer—LOL!
I can picture that as if I actually witnessed it—and I can relate.
August 22, 2011 @ 8:29 pm
I can’t tell if Obama is smart enough to think this far ahead (I’m inclined to say no, but who knows?), but if you look at this from an entirely cynical political point of view, Obama and the rest of the left thrives on racial antagonism. So stoking up anxiety and antagonism about Affirmative action might be exactly the thing he is trying to achieve. If we all just stopped thinking about race, complaining about race, and most importantly, voting on the basis of racial promises, racial fears, racial guilt, and so on, the Democrats would be stuck. If on the other hand, if the stoke the fires of racial animosity they stand to reap benefits, and championing affirmative action does exactly that. It sets them up as the champion of all racial minorities, thereby winning their votes. It also sets them up as the recipient of the “guilty white” vote too. It even brings our the old style anti-minority bigots so they can posture as being more appealing than a toothless sheet-wearing klansman which is one of the few comparisons in which left-wingers come out on top. Sure it does make a few white males mad, but those particular people weren’t going to vote for the Left anyway.
Those possibilities aside, you can’t forget that Presidents have little teams of people whose job it is to select strategies in what he does and says to drive the press to address the subjects he wants to be in the public eye and not other things. So I am sure that the question they are asking themselves right now is “How can we get people’s minds off all of this Tea Party/lower taxes/debt crisis stuff?” and the answer is “Bring up a significant issue about race or sex and nobody will pay attention to all that green eyeshade stuff anymore.
I guess my point is that as stupid and inconsistent as affirmative action programs are, they can serve a political purpose.
August 23, 2011 @ 11:44 am
Lets see..Yes, it is disgusting that the “UNQUALIFIED” have prescedent over the qualified in the OBIMBO hiring law…but then again, isn’t that exactly what America hired as its President this time???
Seems like OBIMBO is simply using the voters’ criteria for job selections…
IMPEACH, NOW
August 25, 2011 @ 9:30 am
Diversity and tolerance are rapidly destroying this country using Obama as the promoter.
August 22, 2011 @ 9:35 am
He’s not racially “Black.” While his skin color may be a union of black and white, he’s racially African and Caucasian. It is hard to see so much desperation for political power based on race, that hopes are pinned on a pseudo “Black” who masquerades as anything that will get him votes. Only a short while ago he was using his Caucasian half to cozy up to the Irish. I really wish that race was truly a thing of the past because identifying with race hurts a lot more than it helps the country.
August 22, 2011 @ 11:27 am
In actually, he is not black or at least not enough black to fit the government requirement of being black, He is only 5% black, 50% white, and 45% Arab.
I am also concerned that this latest Execitve Order is a means to bring more Muslims into our government.
If you look at everything Obama does through the fact he is a Communist Muslim, then it all starts making sense.
August 22, 2011 @ 2:45 pm
Hey, maybe we are all black. Can the government prove that we aren’t?
August 23, 2011 @ 11:47 am
In actuality he is 5% black, 5% white, 5% arabic…and 85% JACK ***!
August 22, 2011 @ 9:43 am
america,we have a problem! and its getting worse day after day.the war on western civilization is being directed by the whitehouse on her own people.white christanity,affirmitave action quotas,executive orders from potus that kill capitolism,czars,epa,and on and on.wake up america,WE ARE NOT FREE!.
August 22, 2011 @ 10:12 am
Capricorn1, I am not sure that anyone will point out that this discrimination has been going on for decades and dacades under both Democrat and Republican Administrations. Bush the Younger went out of his way to wave, (said so!) the usual constraints on home loans to minorities. The Nation and Taxpayer paid dearly for this fraud. This is now swept under the rug. The rug is bulging!
For decades you could see this trend IF you had your eyes open! But we have been trained to keep our eyes closed. Should the Nanny State implode, should the fraud of Uncle Sam ever come up empty pocked, the countless minions that depend, expect, are coddled… will be left in the streets to fend for their own, pay for their Mercedes fuel, homes, cell phones… and the phony house of cards from our Ponzi Scam Nation will come finally crashing down.
Just how close you are to the deck of paper falling will be important.
August 22, 2011 @ 10:31 am
You say WE ARE NOT FREE!
You are half right. In a world of Socialism where their people are created more equal than ours, they are free to work their mayhem, while “WE THE PEOPLE” get silenced and handcuffed.
August 22, 2011 @ 3:02 pm
Hey everybody, beating the diversity tyranny by being black doesnt work! I already tried that; went into the personnel department to apply for a technical job that fit me like a glove. Looking around at the sea of black faces, I thought What the Heck, and checked the Africa box. Shortly after presenting my application, a very large black lady who was apparently higher management came on to me like a duck on a June bug, yelling that I had better get out of there before she called security and had me thrown in jail.
The worst of it was; I didnt get a chance to deliver a great line, that when or if she asked if I really had any ancestors from Africa. Yes, Mam, they were traders, and no, it was not ivory. but buying slaves from your ancestors to resell in America.
August 22, 2011 @ 9:46 am
What does it matter whether your hire the best and brightest or the dumb and dumber, When will you people understand that it is not the intelligence quotient that is our problem. It is our SOCIALISM. How bright the people Obama hires, does not matter. Both he and they love their SOCIALISM more than they love their Country. The problem is that no matter what the problem the face, their behavioir always defaults to supporting SOCIALISM rather than do the right thing and invalidate that which they worship. Cannot anyone argue that Obama on the surface is intelligent? His problem is in his socialism. Is there not anyone on this site that does not think their 12 year old child could have done a better job at fixing this economy than Obama? It is only because they have not yet been infected with the insanity of Socialism.
Perfect example is Paul Krugman! Nobel Prize winning economist and chief economic advisor to Obama during the first years of his administration. Just what is the Nobel Prize committee? They are a bunch of European SOCIALISTS with a Socialist agenda. In comes Obama who is given an unearned Peace prize two months into his administration. Well DUH, just how valid and meaningful is Krugman’s Prize then and why are we putting our economy into the hands of such fools? Diversity is only a problem when applied to the realm of SOCIALISM, not skin color. What matter is a man’s skin color if his mind is infected with Socialism which he will always put first before all else including wife, family, GOD ( Socialism is his new God) and country.
I would not challenge either man’s IQ which makes them on the surface capable. I do challenge their SOCIALISM which makes them insanely dangerous.
August 22, 2011 @ 9:48 am
He told us last week that he would be presenting a jobs plan. This is just the first portion of it. Obviously, his jobs plan is for so called blacks only in response to the Black Congressional Caucus that’s been making noise of late.
Point of clarity: I know what is meant by “reverse discrimination”. However, there really is no such thing. Discrimination is discrimination, no matter who the target is. It is unAmerican and needs to be eliminated. But what can we expect from a Discriminator-in-Chief who hates America?
August 22, 2011 @ 10:01 am
Lets be honest. What you are talking about is RACISM, anti-white RACISM.
August 22, 2011 @ 10:03 am
Obama is a racist! He will discriminate against all non blacks and will do everything to bring our government down. This is discrimination of the worst kind. It will perpetuate racism. Obama needs to go to jail and kept for like without possibility of parole or pardon.
To prove the facts look at the population. Blacks already have an over representation.
Blacks make up 12.6% of the population. Whites make up 72.4% of the population and Hispanics make up 16.3%. So from the Census Numbers it shows that both white and Hispanics are under represented. Know the numbers there can be only reason Obama is doing this. RACISM!
IMPEACH OBAMA NOW
August 22, 2011 @ 10:15 am
This diversity is becomeing a plague on our society as more and more jobs are being reduced to employees who are not qualified for their positions. The police department, fire department and other jobs surrounding our personal safety have been relegated to accept people of color who are not even able to pass a test let alone be sufficiently qualified for other duties.
Foreigners who can barely speak English holding jobs regarding emergency services where a person could literally die trying to get someone to understand what they’re saying. It’s the same thing with customer service departments, and the like, hiring minorities that can barely speak or understand the English language. If I had the money for everytime I encountered this problem I’d consider myself wealthy!
It’s not only dangerous but also stupid to deliberately overlook people who are educated, motivated and knowledgeable and hand their jobs to people who are not! Diversity under these circumstances has brought our country down to a third world nation, as we are being controlled by uneducated, incompetent, ill-equipped people of color who demand instead of work for what they want in life. The end result of all this is the flash mobs who roam the streets taking everything they want from whitey, beating his head in with baseball bats and vandalizing and looting stores. While the likes of the Obama administration, Maxine Waters, and the Black caucaus sit back and watch in silence!
August 22, 2011 @ 12:11 pm
Most of those phone calls to customer service are answered in India. Those jobs aren’t even in the United States. Heavy government regulations and high taxes have resulted in a lot of outsourcing of jobs overseas. I suppose we could send our unemployed black youths to India to work at a call center. Wouldn’t that be a hoot?
August 22, 2011 @ 12:36 pm
I know, outsourcing is a problem, the end results of a global economy.
P.S. Yep, that would be a hoot! If they try flash mobbing over there, they won’t be around to answer the phones.
August 22, 2011 @ 1:43 pm
@txgoatlady: We still wouldn’t be able to understand them because they can’t speak English clearly, either.
August 22, 2011 @ 2:43 pm
Ah FlaJim, so politically incorrect. Yet so very funny!
August 22, 2011 @ 7:34 pm
barry, Maxine Waters and the black caucaus watch in silence, when being watched. In the privacy of their own world, they are pleased with the hatred. barry, in books he theoretically wrote himself, said he had a “crisis of identity”. While he was nurtured and praised by whites, he CHOSE to be black, he identified with blacks, he IS only black in his own mind. To make this decision, he had to destroy the white barry, had to rid himself of anything white, hate anything white. He is an angry black man, just like his father and is doing everything possible to divide the races, give higher equality to blacks and make whites feel as disenfranchised as he thinks blacks feel. I say “he thinks”, because he was not raised black, nor American, so he really has no idea what either means, but he’s sure feelin’ good about the outcome.
August 22, 2011 @ 10:38 am
Hey its only discrimination when the white guy gets the job. Then all hell breaks loose. I thought this was all suppose to go away when Obama got elected. I think we’ve stepped back as a nation on the racial front. They play that race card early and often. Now if only the main stream media would expose it for what it is…
August 22, 2011 @ 10:44 am
Obama forgets he is half white, and this may just get him descriminated out of office in 2012 by his own people!
August 22, 2011 @ 10:41 am
Last week it was the back door amnesty policy Obama has implemented through the DOJ that basically allows any number of illegal immigrants to stay in the US and enjoy our country as long as they stay out of trouble and take a low profile. Now, it is the new diversity policy for government at large, and this is not being reviewed by anyone in Congress to see if this huge impact on hiring within the federal government is something that they American people really agree with and approve as necessary or appropriate.
This is just another of numerous “CZAR” related executive order based or just blatant changes in government policy that Obama and his socialist team have been making since coming into office. This should cause a major uproar in Washington if Congress is actually doing their job and monitoring the executive branch of our government.
This President is as close to a dictator we have had in our government in our history, and it just goes unbridled in Washington. Between Obama, Holder, Napilatano, Lisa Jackson, etc. these people are fundamentally unAmerican in what they are doing, and it is so blatant and ”in our faces” that it makes my blood boil.
This “social justice” …”wealth redistribution”…and now, “diversity”…mindset has to be stopped…now! It is pure insanity for this country to be submitting to this nonsense that is ruining our country. This uncontrolled spending, job killing environmental and government regulative attitude, lack of conscience and support of our military, blatant bias toward unionism versus our private industry, and, for the first time in my lifetime, a blatant public exposure of pure racism in our executive branch of government toward the caucasian/white people in our country is mind boggling…first that it is happening…and second that there isn’t more of a backlash from the American people.
Are we nuts??? Is Obama and his minions this far off of the landscape that they think that they can actually get away with all of this ****?? Or has those in our government become so detached from the rest of us that they just do not care anymore about the negative impact of the Obama administration on the rest of us…and are just letting it happen?
I have to go get a drink…or something before I have a heart attack.
August 22, 2011 @ 10:54 am
By all means, take that drink! Heart attacks are out of the question! We need you!
August 22, 2011 @ 12:28 pm
We also need to PURGE this government of the likes of Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, Barney Frank, John Kerry, Maxine Waters, John Conyers, Dennis Kucinich, and any other PROGRESSIVE LIBERAL. Then when the time comes, AL FRANKEN. He has NO BUSINESS being involved in the making of laws or policy for this country. He was a comedian, even more as a senator.
August 22, 2011 @ 1:32 pm
JDZ, I agree with you but how can We the People do anything about what O wants to do? Remember, he said he isn’t even half way done with what he wants to do to America. Sure, we can write, email & call but does it do any good?
Probably, so please don’t stop sending even if you get a computer letter answer that doesn’t answer a thing; they know there are those out there who do care and we need to keep them on their toes or they will be voted out.
August 22, 2011 @ 10:54 am
Come January 2013, the newly elected president must immediately (with the help of congress) repeal, revoke or rescind every policy, executive order, law or regulation that was put in place under President Obama. Only then can we move the country forward and begin to repair the enormous damage that has been done by Obama, Pelosi and Reid. These three should be remembered in history simply as OPR. Parents should tell their children about the “Dark Days of OPR” (by the way, that’s not a reference to race). OPR should be remembered as a time when America, the once greatest nation on earth, became totally dysfunctional and lost its way. It happened because of the twisted, anti american agenda of three socialist progressive politicians that were somehow elected into the top three positions power in the federal government. OPR should never again be allowed to happen in America.
August 22, 2011 @ 11:01 am
Boy oh Boy! We don’t have enough problems already dealing with the Beauracracy, let’s get more unqualified minorities and other misfits, just to prop up the Democrapic base, never mind who is best qualified for the job, go for diversity, GAG.
August 22, 2011 @ 11:06 am
What did you expect?
August 22, 2011 @ 11:08 am
Socialism has NEVER worked! Everyone who thinks it’s great should study history. It has never ended well. Unless you are the dictator, or one of his circle, you are just a peon to be used and discarded when you are no longer useful. People of ALL colors had better wake up!
August 22, 2011 @ 11:20 am
Obamanomics = Redistributing Socialism equally to make everyone poor!
August 22, 2011 @ 11:31 am
That’s going to be a lot of gov’t jobs he plans to create. He won’t get rid of any white union workers as that would piss them off and he would lose votes.
It makes me wonder which part of the gov’t work force he plans to grow..
I also wonder how much it’s going to cost.
August 22, 2011 @ 11:51 am
Bobby…Thank you for putting the spotlight on another of the many troubles we face.
The latest action is really nothing new, as pointed out by many posters. The problem of “Equal Opportunity” has been with us for decades, regardless of the many names it takes.
This “condition” is necessary to continue the welfare state, “protected classes,” and the like. How else are we to know who should be given our money? How else are we to realize there was slavery in this country–a couple of hundred years ago–and we must now pay for it.
If you were to live and work in DC, you would very quickly learn the non-White federal workforce lives by “YOU owe ME!” It is there mantra.
Our elected officials sign on to this concept and use it to bolster their “feel good” action for supporting the many federal programs and agencies designed to implement this perceived inequality.
Only when we return to the categories of “American” and “Non-American” will we realize the return to the greatness from whence we’ve come.
God Bless America
August 22, 2011 @ 1:04 pm
KNORSE SAID (maybe tongue in cheek?): How else are we to realize there was slavery in this country–a couple of hundred years ago–and we must now pay for it.
Yeah well, since LBJ’s Great Society initiatives started, which ensured black loyalty and votes for the Democratic party – we the taxpayers have paid $40,000,000,000,000,000 (trillion) . . . and still counting.
How much is enough?
I’m – tired – of paying already. Especially given the return on investment.
August 22, 2011 @ 4:18 pm
I think gth has it. I also though it was interesting that some of Jackie Kennedy’s documents were released early last week where she was convinced that LBJ was one of those directly responsible for JFK’s assination.
August 22, 2011 @ 11:57 am
It is no wonder Obama wants to place “diversity” above qualification and competence. He, himself is unqualified for his executive position (no executive experience) and his record in office certainly proves his incompetence (foisting Obamacare on an unaccepting public, raising the debt ceiling not once, but twice, and the list goes on, all in the first two and one half years).
August 22, 2011 @ 12:21 pm
This is just another of Obama’s “redistributions”. I guess if we want to be included in Obama’s plans we should ”ALL”: A) Take whatever money we may have in any bank out and bury it somewhere B) Quit our jobs or any other means of support C) Apply for welfare, foodstamps and every other handout we can find out about. D) Never apply for another job E)Join a gang so we can “take” anything we want (why pay for anything – we don’t care if it hurts someone else – WE DESERVE IT) F) Abort every baby conceived - because we can’t afford them. G)Never take responsibility for what our children do – Blame it all on the schools H) Open all our borders I) Dismantle our entire military J) Expect complete healthcare, housing, food, schooling, etc. at NO COST (and no taxes) K)Vote for Obama again and again If EVERYONE did this we would have no wealthy people in our country, no jobs to have to work at, and no worries. We wouldn’t have to even consider any type of redistribution and yet, we could expect to live a life of luxury, just like the President. We would have no need for any other branches of the government. Everyone would be equal. A perfect Socialist life.
August 22, 2011 @ 10:22 pm
You are a quick learner! Ooops, the no taxes probably won’t work. If you work at a state appointed job, you will pay tax on whatever you earned. However, you won’t have to bother with figuring how much – they will send you a bill! The part about everyone being the same is, of course, the goal of all socialist states.
August 22, 2011 @ 12:33 pm
Of course this has been going on for decades, particularly in government and large politically connected corporations. My personal experience with a department of a sensitive Federal defense agency was that it was 90% minority but all of the work was done by outside contractors (like my company) or about 5% of the rest. I asked once why some of those people socializing, playing computer games, etc, could not help with some of their backlogged work. They told me these people were only semi literate and mostly unwilling but could not be fired or controlled in any realistic way. These were not low level people; they were pulling down upwards of $100000 plus benefits you and I only dream of. Your grandchildren’s money at work buying votes for the tyranny we have allowed!
August 22, 2011 @ 12:40 pm
Ladies and Gentlemen, kudos to the great majority of posters here this day. The many nuances of the problems and hypocracy have been accurately illuminated.
But there something much more subtle going on here than readily meets the eye, something devious and insidious that most won’t notice the ramifications – until too late.
What I’m talking about is the increase of the sheer population (read that as ‘votes’) of the Federal and related work forces (and their spouses/parents/children/significant others/etc, which should be considered as ‘sympathy votes’).
The enormous population of Government itself has become a ‘special interest’ group unto its own perpetuating self. BO’s latest edict insures that more government employees will be loyal and faithful to that special interest.
I could blather on and on but the dilemma is presented much more concisely in the following 3:40 video from Government Gone Wild. Please take those few short minutes to watch. Thank you.
http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=xOAgT8L_BqQ
August 22, 2011 @ 2:06 pm
There is something else going on as well. The black caucus and many other blacks have been rumbling and complaining about Obummer’s inaction on the employment front for blacks.
Black Obama voters in 2008 numbered in the high ninety percentile range. Obummer doesn’t want to lose this base. Therefore, Affirmative action orders were cut to molify the black caucus prople and stifle complaints from the black public.
Keep em on the plantation, Mr. president, Massa gonna tell em what to do. A vote fo me gonna get you a gubbmint job, sho nuf.
August 22, 2011 @ 12:46 pm
No way, diversity for the sake of diversity. It’s purpose in this is to drive a wedge between the whites and blacks. Other wedges are between the rich and the poor, with endless harping on how evil the rich are and between Christians, plus Jews and muslims.
All of this is to fragment society to cause an internal collapse as has occured in Egypt, Libya, Syria, Yemen. (But for different reasons.) And all caused by islamic political actions/forces. This is what islam does, stir up political and/or religious trouble and then, when the collapse occurs, the muslims bros will move in and give real and dramatic life to the joke. “Turn out the lights, the party is over”. Because they do turn out the lights and the populations in islamic countries live in the darkness of a police state, a tyranny. Will someone name one islamic country that is enlightened with God’s love? Or are all of them in the darkness of ”jihad”?
Folks we are at war, jihad to muslims, with islam and the sooner our diversity riddled govt faces this, the safer all of will be. The Consitution was not written to promote diversity, but to establish freedom and defend freedom!
August 22, 2011 @ 1:05 pm
A nation deceived by lies… People are deceived about themselves, their government, their Freedom, …just about everything. The term African-American in truth means borne in Africa but became American, Mexican-American means borne in Mexico and became an American… and so on. Of course in this country these are terms used to divide Americans into groups so they can be pitted against one another. My past heritage is my private concern, my country of citizenship is where I belong and reside. That’s a problem, people expecting special treatment or privileges based on heritage…
Today’s economic problems are unique in that the government spent so much money, that in essence it has bankrupted the country. Bush had a demo congress and gave them not resistance, so it’s like we’ve have Democrats running the show for well over a decade….now trillions of dollars later, those same Democrats that caused what is happening today, are trying to blame Republicans and tea party people. Tea party people are new on the scene and don’t have hardly any power at this point, most of the power they do have is derived from the people.
I am very close to being like the black man shown above. If things don’t change soon I’ll be living out of a backpack. A difference though, I’ve never owned an expensive car or made they kind of money he claimed to have previously made…I struggled to make half of that. And it’s not an educational difference, I have two Bachelor’s Degrees and made it half through my Master’s before financial hardship forced me to quit.
Not all of the blame belongs only to Democrats, there are Republicans that contributed as well. We shouldn’t look at this labels anymore, what we should be looking at is are they big government globalists… there is where the cause lies.
August 22, 2011 @ 1:46 pm
This really isn’t anything new in America. The Blacks have been playing on slavery for as long as I can remember. I have heard them claiming that the whites owe them something for the 400 years of slavery. I can remember a time in America when this was not the case. A time when the talk was every man standing on his own 2 feet and earning his way in this life. where a man took care of his family and where race was not an issue. Yes I am talking about the 50s when my father would talk to blacks in the south about equal opportunities and fighting for their RIGHT to it. The ideas spread back then by the Republican Party was every person regardless of race color, religion or nationality should have the same opportunities as everybody else. Of course this was all based upon qualifications and ability.
Then under JFK and LBJ this all was taken over by the Democrats as they began tell the blacks that they are entitled to jobs whether they are qualified or not. I can remember attending college and the black students were encouraged to sign up regardless of their grade average for college. They would required to show up for the first day of classes then once a month to collect their education checks and again on the last day of classes to graduate. That lead to a whole lot of uneducated blacks with Phds, BS and Masters degrees. Then came the problem of hiring them. No business in their right mind would hire them so the government started hiring them just to give them busy work. They were placed in Public assistance offices and in school administration positions. When no position was available one was created for them.
Not only that but blacks were given preferential hiring over our Veterans who had prior military and civilian experience. I applied for a job within the Department of Veterans Affairs that required some college. A young black kid who had just dropped out of high school got the job.
When I tried to go for my Masters I was told that I was not able to attend South Florida University because they had not their required number of black students and they were keeping those slots open for more deserving black students. The truth was they got more money for enrolling black students then they got for enrolling Veterans.
All Obama is doing is extending the same o Democratic vote buying another 2 years until he is reelected.
This is nothing new.
My name is Jim Hayden and I AM the next American President
http://www.Jimhayden2012.org
August 22, 2011 @ 1:53 pm
IMO some of what O does is diversionary, not diversity. Take this diversity issue. The press has reported how bad this vacation is, the fact two govt planes were usedm he is golfing, etc.. Meanwhile, under the cover of his vacation to irritate non-liberals, he signs an order to turn the govt into a “SEPARATE BUT EQUAL” operation, as long as it is diverse. Including virtual diversity which means plenty of whites applied, but were not able to be hired. This after decades of lawsuits condemming separate but equal anything and a court guilt complex of favoring blacks in most ‘I’ve been discriminated’ against law suits. This diversity order will be a make work program for lawyers so they won’t have to go on food stamps? Thus they will be able to make sizeable donations to the party with that creates legislation, etc. that opns the gates for endless lawsuits! DC is all about money, it is not about diversity, or hope, or change, or unfortunately even freedom.
August 22, 2011 @ 2:00 pm
to me it seems like Obama is trying to start a racial war. And I don’t mean the bickering back and forth, I mean a real racial war. If I remember right, wasn’t Charlie Manson trying to do the same thing when he had his minions kill Sharon Tate and the others?? Wow, how is this guy NOT getting impeached??? And has he EVER read the constitution?? someone should ask him that when he doesn’t have access to his teleprompter to see what he would say.
August 22, 2011 @ 6:39 pm
Obama does not recognize the Constitution as a legitimate document, therefore, he ignores it.. He creates his own laws, ignores the courts,threatens seniors and military with loss of income, never tells the truth, anfd frolics on the taxpayer’s money. His approval ratings are in the 20′s and 30′s, but haow anyone coukld aprove of anything this Muslim dictator is doing is beyond me.
August 23, 2011 @ 7:49 am
Obama is one part racist and nine parts fascist. His 2008 campaign was heavily influenced by Hitlers rise to power. Watch the 1934 “Triumph of Will”. Obama employed the same stagecraft and theatrics as Hitler. Now that he is in power, he is employing the same class warfare techniques. Obama supposedly is a constitutional lawyer but he has stated that our Constitution is a document of negative rights and his specialization in this area was only to learn how to circumvent it. He has complained that the Warren court did nothing to redistribute wealth. Obama says this is social justice but in reality is just a method to obtain more control and that equals power. All authoritarians in the 20th century have employed these methods. Think Lenin, Hitler, Musolini, Mao, Castro and Ho Chi Minh. There is nothing new here but we refuse to see it because we told it could never happen here. Obama is not culturally an American. He wasn’t raised on Memorial Day parades on the village green, Pee Wee football, Knot Hole baseball, Boy Scouts, John Wayne movies and mainstream Christianity. He doesn’t get it and never will. He must be removed in 2012 if our unique American liberty is to survive. Another four years of Obama would tip the voting scales to the point of no return. At that point the only way back to freedom would be the bullet and as unthinkable as that may be it may be the only recourse. Whoever the Republican candidate may be, they must be able to educate the electorate in very stark black and white terms as to what is at stake. We will not have a second chance here folks. Choose wisely.
August 22, 2011 @ 4:10 pm
I’m announcing to the world! I’m now Gay! I also am on a diet plan to grow big and fat so I have the added obesity disability. I am checking my lineage because I’m sure my grandmother told me I’m 1/8th Cherokee Indian. I have arthritis in my fingers and back, as well! I wear glasses and am a little hard of hearing! I drink an occasional glass of wine, but I could take alcohol consumption to a level of then being called a disease. I could develop a gambling addiction….did I hear someone say, “You wanna bet?”
I promise I’ll throw away my Master’s Degree and alter my resume to show I only have a High School diploma! Now, if I can only figure out how to convince people I’m Black! Would it help if I went out and robbed a liquor store? Then I could fit the category of a “victim of society!”
Do I fit your ideal definition of a desired employee, Pseudo-President Obama? I need a job!
August 22, 2011 @ 7:43 pm
I looked up some stats that make this a really interesting topic. First according to one site I saw, about 66% of federal employees are white, 18% are black, 8% are Hispanic, and 6% are Asian. The last estimate I saw shows that only about 14% of the nation is black, 66% is white, 15% is Hispanic and 6% are Asians. So I am confused, is Obama saying we need to stop hiring black Americans until Hispanics get to there fair total? This whole thing is just another ploy by Obama to show minorities he is their man. The fact is, he doesn’t care about them except as a vote, so he can continue his agenda. Remember Hope and Change. He hoped people were stupid enough to vote for him, so he could change the country into a Liberal paradise, just like the Soviet Union. They were a really great example…………. Oh that’s right, they gave up communism, because people got tired of standing in bread lines and being killed. That is why it doesn’t exist anymore. For you young people, type in Soviet or Russian bread lines in your internet search engine and see what I am talking about. A country whose government can give its people everything, can also take it all away.
August 23, 2011 @ 9:51 am
Now does this mean when I go into the Franklin County BMV, I may see a white face now, or the Post Office , or Social Security office???? or any of the city offices??????
August 23, 2011 @ 4:12 pm
Please — IT IS ABOUT THE CONSTITUTION!
Social engineering is UNCONSTITUTIONAL interference in our freedom to conduct ourselves as individuals created by God and under his authority. Congress shall make no law respecting our religion or the free exercise thereof. Congress shall make no law depriving us of our right to make our own decisions regarding our private property. The Constitution is what protects us from encroachment and interference from the federal government. If we do not stand up and restore the foundations of the original intents of the Constitution. All of these empty words about diversity will lead us into the condition of slavery to a government that is run by tyrants.
August 28, 2011 @ 7:08 pm
YOU KNOW WHAT OBAMA IS ALL ABOUT?ALIEN COMMUNISM AND ISLAMISM
September 1, 2011 @ 11:35 am
Unity is necessary for a nation to survive. Diversity is about dividing a nation. Unity is provided by the Constitution which is what brings us together as the “United” States of America. If you use your vote to empower those who will vote to uphold the protections of the Constitution from the transfer of tyrannical power that has been redistributed to the Executive and Judicial branches of the government, you will be part of the solution instead of part of the problem.
Live free or die, is more than just a catchy slogan. It is the stark reality that if you refuse to protect our freedoms you will die by the tyrannical hand of an all powerful immoral government. Why is it necessary to recognize that a government is immoral? Because a government doesn’t have a heart, it only has laws, rules and regulations. Individuals are the only ones who have hearts. That is why individuals are the only ones who can make moral decisions. Individuals either serve God, honor his laws, statutes and judgments and love their neighbors as themselves or they commit immoral acts (individually). The government is an immoral entity and it has no power to be a moral entity. It is people that demand morality or allow immorality.