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| Affirmative Action and NASA |
| 2019-09-21 |
| [American Thinker] In the 47 years since the last man set foot on the moon, the space program has changed a great deal. One of those changes has been incorporating mandated affirmative action policies. These policies have had an incredibly negative effect on both the progress in the space program and the engineers whose careers have been destroyed by them. The federal government mandates that a given percentage of work on a government contract go to minority-owned businesses. When building a large and complicated system like a space vehicle, it is almost impossible for a company like Boeing or Lockheed to meet this requirement by hiring out specific design work to small, minority-owned companies. Even if that were feasible, those companies do not exist. Enter subcontracting companies. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #5 Re: #3 was the largest rock to have done so in almost 100 years. Yep, nothing snuck by us for a century we're on top of everything here at NASA even though we didn't exist then. Sounds like those "climate" records from before the advent of thermometers. |
| Posted by: AlanC 2019-09-21 08:19 |
| #4 NASA is no different than the public schools scam. Iron rice bowls for mediocre carrerists. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2019-09-21 06:57 |
| #2 Even if that were feasible, those companies do not exist. Neither do individual 'diversity hires' possessing both skills and integrity to entrust them with such enterprise. And that there is the conclusion any logical admin would stop at. But not a committee of tribalists and naive apologists that would destroy hard won achievements of real people just to come to an office full of fist-bumping and strange hairdos. |
| Posted by: Dron66046 2019-09-21 05:10 |
| #1 IMO, from my experiences in academia, that Affirmative Action always promotes the worst members of the affirmed group. And, everyone, can see the same effect in politics. So, why not NASA? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2019-09-21 03:02 |