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2015-11-03 Government

Champ to sign order forcing gov't to hire convicts

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Posted by Besoeker 2015-11-03 03:50|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 Last summer, Obama visited a federal prison, where he told prisoners that as a former user of both marijuana and cocaine, he could have ended up in prison, too.

There is still time.

Posted by Besoeker 2015-11-03 04:09|| 2015-11-03 04:09|| Front Page Top

#2 Any criminal enterprise can always use more experienced criminals.

Posted by Airandee 2015-11-03 06:24|| 2015-11-03 06:24|| Front Page Top

#3 What can be done via executive order can be swept away with another executive order by the next prez.

Where is the do nothing Congress?

Posted by Sven the pelter 2015-11-03 06:27|| 2015-11-03 06:27|| Front Page Top

#4 ..securing their jobs, the real criminal enterprise that pays big money. There are only so many House and Senate seats. "I got mine, find your own"

Posted by Procopius2k 2015-11-03 08:24|| 2015-11-03 08:24|| Front Page Top

#5 Made men?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2015-11-03 09:58|| 2015-11-03 09:58|| Front Page Top

#6 Rod Blagojevich 2020??

Posted by Yosemite Sam 2015-11-03 10:40|| 2015-11-03 10:40|| Front Page Top

#7 If he just "stopped" abusing cocaine, or suffers no large-scale ill effects from having abused or still abuses cocaine, Zero will be the first fucking person I know of to have achieved this.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2015-11-03 10:42|| 2015-11-03 10:42|| Front Page Top

#8 Well a crook was elected POTUS, twice, so what can we expect.

Posted by chris 2015-11-03 12:54|| 2015-11-03 12:54|| Front Page Top

#9 Sensational headline much? The program won't "force" a hire. But it's also unlikely to increase the chance an ex-con will gain employment in any measurable way. Just call it what it is - another phoney baloney measure that panders to an ignorant sub-section of the democratic constituency.

Posted by DepotGuy 2015-11-03 13:03|| 2015-11-03 13:03|| Front Page Top

#10 ...another phoney baloney measure that panders to an ignorant sub-section of the democratic constituency.

In sum; one "ignorant sub-section" pandering to yet another "ignorant sub-section" ?

Posted by Besoeker 2015-11-03 13:07|| 2015-11-03 13:07|| Front Page Top

#11 The program won't "force" a hire.

True. But it does give a rejected applicant grounds to sue. And while this applies to govt agencies, it won't be long before it spreads to the cities and states.

Posted by SteveS 2015-11-03 15:07|| 2015-11-03 15:07|| Front Page Top

#12 Yeah... and Affirmitive Action (AA) won't 'force' someone deserving to be passed over for someone who doesn't.

How long before AA for Cons?

Posted by CrazyFool 2015-11-03 16:21|| 2015-11-03 16:21|| Front Page Top

#13 Looking to make sure he can get a job after he leaves white house?

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2015-11-03 16:38|| 2015-11-03 16:38|| Front Page Top

#14 ...the prospects for speaking and seven figure foundation gigs not looking good?

Posted by Procopius2k 2015-11-03 17:24|| 2015-11-03 17:24|| Front Page Top

#15 What? - Have they stopped asking for resumes - or made requesting one illegal??

So - there is no "I am a felon" check-box.

But the resume still reads "Guest of Rikers Island Federal Penitentiary 2000-2014" - or whatever.

I must be missing something ....

Posted by Lone Ranger 2015-11-03 18:45|| 2015-11-03 18:45|| Front Page Top

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