| Submit your comments on this article |
| Economy |
| Elite Heaven or Real Hell on Earth? |
| 2024-03-15 |
| [AmGreatness] The horrific murder of Laken Riley by a repeated felony offender and illegal alien Jose Ibarra, 26, a Venezuelan citizen, was preventable—had federal immigration laws simply been enforced by the Biden administration. When called out in his recent State of the Union address, President Biden referenced the deceased Ms. Riley. But Biden misidentified her as "Lincoln Riley"—the USC football coach! Biden only accurately noted that she "was killed by an "illegal."" True—but almost immediately the left was infuriated over Biden’s accurate use of the supposedly insensitive "illegal" for the murderer Ibarra. Biden soon apologized for correctly identifying her killer as an illegal alien—but not for misidentifying the victim. He left the callous impression that he was more upset about offending his open-borders base than about the savage beating of a young 22-year-old American nursing student. Biden’s woke open-borders agenda supersedes any worry over the subsequent mounting number of Americans who have fallen victim to foreign gangs and criminals. He seems oblivious to the nearly 100,000 Americans who die from fentanyl imported across open borders. Individuals never matter in ideology The same idea of abstract humanity juxtaposed with concrete callousness towards humans characterizes much of the current leftist agenda. The Biden administration envisions mandating the use of electric vehicles and banning natural gas appliances. These measures will supposedly help "save" the planet—even as they make life far more expensive and dangerous for the middle class and poor in the here and now. We are told that biologically born males who transition to females have a civil right to compete in female sports. Such transgender activism may sound compassionate in the abstract. Yet in the concrete, thousands of women are put in danger by competing against the much larger musculoskeletal frames and natural strength of transitioning males. Moreover, tens of thousands of young female athletes are losing opportunities to excel and set records—thus destroying over a half-century of women’s efforts to reach parity with men’s sports. The wages of feminism are death. In 2021, United Airlines president Scott Kirby bragged that his company was now devoted to ensuring that fifty percent of all trained pilots would be either people of color or women. The Federal Aviation Administration had similar diversity, equity, and inclusion mandates for hiring air traffic controllers. In 2023, Boeing bragged that it was using "inclusion" as a criterion for executive compensation. Pay from now on would be calibrated in large part on the success of hiring new employees on the basis of their race, gender, and sexual orientation. In the abstract, ensuring that air travel "looks like America" is no doubt a noble goal. But if such subordination of meritocracy is canonized without proper attention to the only criterion that really matters—the safety of the nearly 3 million American airline passengers who take 45,000 flights per day—lives will be needlessly lost. Some data and recent anecdotal evidence suggest that something has now gone dangerously wrong with the entire airline industry. In January 2023, thousands of domestic flights were cancelled or delayed because of a series of Federal Aviation Administration computer failures. Over the last ten years, near-crashes and collisions of commercial places have more than doubled. Affirmative action kills. ...Anytime ideology and dogma trump merit, logic, and safety, the result is predictably scary and dangerous. America needs to recalibrate its priorities to protect the lives and aspirations of all its citizens, regardless of their race and gender. If our elites do not stop playing god and mandating their visions of heaven on earth, then they will surely ensure hell for us all. Related: Laken Riley: 2024-03-14 Georgia Gov. Kemp Signs Bill Targeting 'Rogue' Prosecutors Amid Fani Willis Scrutiny Laken Riley: 2024-03-13 Speaker Johnson, Chairmen Green and Jordan Demand Mayorkas Answer for Alleged Border Deception Laken Riley: 2024-03-11 Biden Lied 30 Times During The State Of The Union |
| Posted by:Grom the Reflective |
| #3 That’s really funny, Grom. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2024-03-15 20:44 |
| #2 ^ |
| Posted by: Grom the Reflective 2024-03-15 06:59 |
| #1 "Pay from now on would be calibrated in large part on the success of hiring new employees on the basis of their race, gender, and sexual orientation." Well, then, if they really did implement this, then that's what they're going to get. Nothing is as powerful an incentive to employees as their paycheck. It's stupid but effective. |
| Posted by: Tom 2024-03-15 06:48 |