And you're peering out of your ass.
If you think there aren't millions of white people trapped in the same poverty as minorities, you're nuts.
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If you think there aren't millions of white people trapped in the same poverty as minorities, you're nuts.
The market reached as high as 14000 under Bush so it was obvious it was going to bounce back but that's not my point.
I want to ask you what you think was the main cause of the economic collapse? I personally think, and most experts agree, that banks took advantage of lax loan regulations that led to defaults on mortgages. Would you agree?
When Obama took office the Dow Jones was 7900, on his Election Day it was 9000.
On Trumps Election Day it was 18332, and 19700 on his inauguration.
Almost 20% of the markets gain under Obama was due to Trumps election. The market gained as much in 2 months as it had in the prior 2 years.
Furthermore, the market reached 14000 under Bush, so most of Obama’s market “growth” wasn’t actual growth, but simply recovering lost market. So 33% of actual market growth Uber Obama was after Trumps election.
When did I EVER say that there aren't white people in poverty? Oh...that's right. I didn't.
Germans were interred during WWI.
You should research Nihau as to why the Govt interred first generation Japanese.
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This is an interesting post (I'm taking it at face value and assuming the quoted stats are accurate. While certainly some of this can be attributed to AA, the fact that the family unit has changed so much over the last 50 years has also been a big influence. For the longest time, the role of a woman was to be a wife/mother and stay home while the man of the house provided for them. That is obviously not the case anymore (except maybe in Utah.) Add to this the rising costs of living and the desire to keep up with the Joneses, and many couples both work out of pure necessity. I will say that the particular fields you quoted show very impressive increases.
After he was released from prison into the community instead of being deported. The raping of this little girl was 100% preventable.
Ever heard of indentured servitude? Ever heard of Jews, Irish. Italians being denied housing & jobs? Ever heard of poor whites not being able to vote due to poll taxes? Ever heard of women not having the vote? Guess not.
So women couldn't get jobs unless men lowered the standards for them. Excellent argument, fuzz.
Just what the Dems' Great Society did. Broke up poor, mainly black families by denying benefits if husband in home & working.
I know you don't realize it but you are making the case for affirmative action.
So if someone, or someone's family and ancestors were kept in poverty, not because of their abilities but because they were prevented from pursuing avenues of opportunity, were prevented by law from entering the best schools and subjugated it inferior wages...what were their chances of escaping generational that poverty?
The true question is when the practice should end. The concept of affirmative action began in 1961 by JFK and expanded by LBJ, Nixon and Carter. It has since been abolished at least to some degree in 8 states. My guess is that in the next 10-20 years it will end everywhere.
Remember, fuzz is the one who wants the government to confiscate 100% of everything you worked to earn in your life when you die. Search the thread for the posts.
There were about 11,000 Germans interned...nearly all were German nationals, not American citizens.
So now white people as a whole need to pay for the sins of the "progressive" left locking up Japanese people?
Ok, but German/Americans were clearly interred.
Race had nothing to do with the Japanese being interred.
What happened in Nihau right after Pearl Harbor did.
The very first Japanese/American that came in contact with Japanese pilot shot down helped them. Actually killing a US citizen.
I’m not saying it was the right thing to do, but we were in a war where the outcome wasn’t certain.
Double agent Trump slaps Russia with new sanctions.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...-poisoning-ex-spy-Sergei-Skripal-England.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...-poisoning-ex-spy-Sergei-Skripal-England.html
Fake News.
Please do search because I specifically said that I would limit the amount you could pass down to your kids...$5-$10 million and beyond that you could designate where the other money went.
Look at air traffic control to see how horribly dumb diversity hiring or hiring for the sake of diversity is. If you suck at science and are unemployed and have zero experience then you're hired over someone who's good at science and is employed and has past experience.
https://www.theblaze.com/news/2018/...troller-diversity-ahead-of-safety-lawyer-says
Obama-era FAA hiring rules placed air traffic controller diversity ahead of safety, lawyer says
For decades, the selection process for the Federal Aviation Administration’s air traffic controllers was rigorous. After all, one minor mistake could cost hundreds of people their lives.
But a new report revealed the Obama administration modified the FAA’s candidate selection process to value workplace diversity over competency, experience and skills.
Due to changes implemented during the Obama administration, air traffic controller candidates are now required to complete a “biographical questionnaire” before even being considered for a job with the FAA.
If they don’t pass, they aren’t considered for a position — no matter how much experience they have or how qualified they are.
A copy of the questionnaire and how it is scored. Candidates whose worst subject in high school was science and candidates who are unemployed receive the most points possible on the test. In contrast, licensed pilots and those with extensive air traffic control knowledge aren’t highly scored.
An FAA spokesperson said he was unsure of why the FAA screens candidates for diversity over competency. Unsurprisingly, the FAA never offered an explanation.
Michael Pearson, an attorney representing a man suing the FAA over its diversity test, said the test is intentionally designed to “weed out” experienced candidates, especially those with an aviation background.
So why would the FAA make the changes? Pearson’s answer suggests the reason is just as egregious as the changes.
“A group within the FAA, including the human resources function within the FAA, including the National Black Coalition of Federal Aviation Employees, determined that the workforce was too white. They had a concerted effort through the Department of Transportation in the Obama administration to change that,” Pearson said.
Pearson likened the situation to the Department of Veteran Affairs hiring physicians who didn’t graduate from medical school for their hospitals and claiming the VA can train them better.
https://www.theblaze.com/news/2018/...troller-diversity-ahead-of-safety-lawyer-says
Obama-era FAA hiring rules placed air traffic controller diversity ahead of safety, lawyer says
For decades, the selection process for the Federal Aviation Administration’s air traffic controllers was rigorous. After all, one minor mistake could cost hundreds of people their lives.
But a new report revealed the Obama administration modified the FAA’s candidate selection process to value workplace diversity over competency, experience and skills.
Due to changes implemented during the Obama administration, air traffic controller candidates are now required to complete a “biographical questionnaire” before even being considered for a job with the FAA.
If they don’t pass, they aren’t considered for a position — no matter how much experience they have or how qualified they are.
A copy of the questionnaire and how it is scored. Candidates whose worst subject in high school was science and candidates who are unemployed receive the most points possible on the test. In contrast, licensed pilots and those with extensive air traffic control knowledge aren’t highly scored.
An FAA spokesperson said he was unsure of why the FAA screens candidates for diversity over competency. Unsurprisingly, the FAA never offered an explanation.
Michael Pearson, an attorney representing a man suing the FAA over its diversity test, said the test is intentionally designed to “weed out” experienced candidates, especially those with an aviation background.
So why would the FAA make the changes? Pearson’s answer suggests the reason is just as egregious as the changes.
“A group within the FAA, including the human resources function within the FAA, including the National Black Coalition of Federal Aviation Employees, determined that the workforce was too white. They had a concerted effort through the Department of Transportation in the Obama administration to change that,” Pearson said.
Pearson likened the situation to the Department of Veteran Affairs hiring physicians who didn’t graduate from medical school for their hospitals and claiming the VA can train them better.
I missed all of that and I'm not searching through this cesspool to find it. How about the Cliff's notes version of why you want to limit the amount of my hard earned money that I can pass down to my kids???
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OK, well that's totally different and not at all ridiculous
Actually, we already paid reparations to the survivors of those that were locked up. Whether it was enough is a debate, though.
If you did some research or read a book or two, you would’ve already known that.
So when you think of the US Govt you automatically think it’s white people?
Who is the racist ?
Not to mention, I don’t think I called you guys racist, recently at least.
Must have struck a nerve.
Must have struck a nerve.
I didn’t bring that up at all, actually.
Nice talking to you. Don’t be salty just cause you didn’t already know about the reparations.
Here’s a great question, though. For all you kind hearted Republicans: are you upset we paid reparations to Japanese Americans? Should we have not done that?
You’re the one that wrote it. Cosby was pretty clear in his statement. You commented that “we” already paid reparations.
Calling someone a racist used to be a pretty serious affair. To some of us it still is, unfortunately you guys throw it around so lackadaisically now you’ve neutered it.
Smart? Went to college for aviation? Former pilot? Military background? But you're white and passed science in high school? Job's not for you.
Dumb as heck? Don't know crap about aviation? Haven't been employed for the past 3 years? But you're not white and you played sports in high school? You're hired.
https://www.dailysignal.com/2018/06...ic-controllers-based-on-diversity-not-talent/
The Disastrous Initiative to Hire Air Traffic Controllers Based on Diversity, Not Talent
My column, titled “Diversity and Inclusion Harm,” focused on the dumbing down of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics curricula to achieve a more pleasing mixture of participants in terms of race and sex.
Heather Mac Donald, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, wrote about this in her article titled “How Identity Politics Is Harming the Sciences.” Mac Donald quoted a UCLA scientist who said, “All across the country the big question now in STEM is: how can we promote more women and minorities by ‘changing’ (i.e., lowering) the requirements we had previously set for graduate level study?”
The National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health are two federal agencies that fund university research, are consumed by diversity and inclusion ideology, and have the power to yank funds from a college if it has not supported a sufficient number of “underrepresented minorities.”
In recent years, the Federal Aviation Administration has also become consumed by diversity and inclusion. Prior to becoming so, the FAA worked with about 36 colleges to create the Air Traffic Collegiate Training Initiative. The colleges offered two- and four-year nonengineering aviation degrees requiring basic courses in air traffic control and aviation administration. Graduates of these programs became qualified candidates for training as air traffic control specialists. The FAA gave hiring preferences to veterans, those with AT-CTI program degrees, references from administrators, and high test scores.
When President Barack Obama-appointed FAA Administrator Michael Huerta, he deemed that these hiring standards had not produced a pleasing mix of air traffic controllers when it came to race and sex. He announced plans to “transform the [FAA] into a more diverse and inclusive workplace that reflects, understands, and relates to the diverse customers” it serves.
The FAA discarded its longtime use of the difficult cognitive assessment test and implemented instead a new, unmonitored take-home personality test—a biographical questionnaire. Among the questions asked are: “The number of high school sports I participated in was … ” “How would you describe your ideal job?” “What has been the major cause of your failures?” “More classmates would remember me as humble or dominant?”
In other words, the FAA opened air traffic control training to “off-the-street hires”—any English-speaking citizen with a high school diploma.
All air traffic control applicants are required to complete the biographical questionnaire. Those who “pass” are deemed eligible. The questionnaire gives more points to an applicant who answers that he has not been employed in the previous three years than it does to an applicant who answers that he has been a pilot or is a veteran with an air traffic control-related military background.
Michael Pearson, an air traffic controller for 27 years who is suing the FAA, said, “A group within the FAA, including the human resources function within the FAA—the National Black Coalition of Federal Aviation Employees—determined that the workforce was too white.”
All Americans should hope that the Mountain States Legal Foundation suit is successful in preventing the FAA from using race and sex as criteria for hiring. Passengers’ lives, regardless of sex and race, depend upon there being proficient air traffic controllers.
Dumb as heck? Don't know crap about aviation? Haven't been employed for the past 3 years? But you're not white and you played sports in high school? You're hired.
https://www.dailysignal.com/2018/06...ic-controllers-based-on-diversity-not-talent/
The Disastrous Initiative to Hire Air Traffic Controllers Based on Diversity, Not Talent
My column, titled “Diversity and Inclusion Harm,” focused on the dumbing down of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics curricula to achieve a more pleasing mixture of participants in terms of race and sex.
Heather Mac Donald, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, wrote about this in her article titled “How Identity Politics Is Harming the Sciences.” Mac Donald quoted a UCLA scientist who said, “All across the country the big question now in STEM is: how can we promote more women and minorities by ‘changing’ (i.e., lowering) the requirements we had previously set for graduate level study?”
The National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health are two federal agencies that fund university research, are consumed by diversity and inclusion ideology, and have the power to yank funds from a college if it has not supported a sufficient number of “underrepresented minorities.”
In recent years, the Federal Aviation Administration has also become consumed by diversity and inclusion. Prior to becoming so, the FAA worked with about 36 colleges to create the Air Traffic Collegiate Training Initiative. The colleges offered two- and four-year nonengineering aviation degrees requiring basic courses in air traffic control and aviation administration. Graduates of these programs became qualified candidates for training as air traffic control specialists. The FAA gave hiring preferences to veterans, those with AT-CTI program degrees, references from administrators, and high test scores.
When President Barack Obama-appointed FAA Administrator Michael Huerta, he deemed that these hiring standards had not produced a pleasing mix of air traffic controllers when it came to race and sex. He announced plans to “transform the [FAA] into a more diverse and inclusive workplace that reflects, understands, and relates to the diverse customers” it serves.
The FAA discarded its longtime use of the difficult cognitive assessment test and implemented instead a new, unmonitored take-home personality test—a biographical questionnaire. Among the questions asked are: “The number of high school sports I participated in was … ” “How would you describe your ideal job?” “What has been the major cause of your failures?” “More classmates would remember me as humble or dominant?”
In other words, the FAA opened air traffic control training to “off-the-street hires”—any English-speaking citizen with a high school diploma.
All air traffic control applicants are required to complete the biographical questionnaire. Those who “pass” are deemed eligible. The questionnaire gives more points to an applicant who answers that he has not been employed in the previous three years than it does to an applicant who answers that he has been a pilot or is a veteran with an air traffic control-related military background.
Michael Pearson, an air traffic controller for 27 years who is suing the FAA, said, “A group within the FAA, including the human resources function within the FAA—the National Black Coalition of Federal Aviation Employees—determined that the workforce was too white.”
All Americans should hope that the Mountain States Legal Foundation suit is successful in preventing the FAA from using race and sex as criteria for hiring. Passengers’ lives, regardless of sex and race, depend upon there being proficient air traffic controllers.
Even if the answer was yes, that only applies to the people who the government actually imposed an illegal action on. No one, even someone who would be in favor of reparations of those Japanese Americans put in internment camps, would say everyone related to (or even looks like) said people are entitled to anything.
You’re right about that, I’m not a race baiting prick.
You don’t realize it, or maybe you do, but you’re strengthening actual racists by calling everyone you disagree with racist.
You know why nothing can get done to help prevent the shootings in Chicago? Because only one party can bring ideas. If Republicans or Trump bring up ideas they get drowned out with racist accusations. So people continue to die.
