Obamas RACE BASED spoils.

[Danno 1,228]

Obama's Race-Based Spoils System

By Patrick J. Buchanan

Friday - August 26, 2011

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A week ago, an item buried in The Washington Post reported that Obama had "issued an executive order requiring government agencies to develop plans for improving federal workforce diversity."

Obama, wrote Isaac Arnsdorf, is targeting "a problem that has been on the administration's radar. Whites still hold more than 81 percent of senior pay-level positions."

Now, as white folks are two-thirds of the U.S. population, and perhaps three-fourths of those in the 45 to 65 age group who would normally be at senior federal positions, why is this "a problem"?

As no one has contended otherwise, we have to assume that the men and women who hold these top positions got there because of the longevity of their service and the superiority of their skills.

Why is the color of their skin a "problem" for Barack Obama?

As reported here previously, African-Americans are hardly underrepresented in the U.S. government.

Though only 12 percent to 13 percent of the U.S. population, blacks hold 18 percent of all federal jobs. African-Americans are 25 percent of the employees at Treasury and Veterans Affairs, 31 percent of State Department employees, 37 percent of the Department of Education, 38 percent of Housing and Urban Development. They are 42 percent of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp., 55 percent of the Government Printing Office, 82 percent of the Court Services and Offender Supervision Agency.

According to The Washington Post, blacks hold 44 percent of the jobs at Fannie Mae and 50 percent of the jobs at Freddie Mac.

The EEOC, where African-Americans are overrepresented by 300 percent, has been asked to oversee the new "government-wide initiative to promote diversity and inclusion in the federal workforce."

I'm not making this up.

Perhaps, while he is battling for a greater diversity of sacrifice and rewards up there on Martha's Vineyard, our president might reflect on another example of the overrepresentation of white males -- in the caskets coming home to Dover.

In the first five years of the Iraq war, Asian-Americans were 1 percent of our fallen heroes, Latinos 11 percent, African-Americans 10 percent. White Americans were 75 percent of the dead, and from photos of the fallen in newspapers since, the ratios appear to hold.

Does this overrepresentation of white men in the body bags and caskets coming home bother our commander in chief, who wants fewer white men at the top level of his executive branch?

"Why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?" says the Lord in Matthew's Gospel.

Has Obama taken a close look at his hypocritical party on Capitol Hill? Though African-Americans are fully 25 percent of all Democratic voters, in a Senate Democratic Caucus of 53 members, there is not a single black man or black woman.

Well, regretfully, we are told, none was elected

But if liberals believe in affirmative action, why don't Democratic senators practice as well as preach it? Why don't they lead by example rather than by exhortation?

Sens. Dianne Feinstein and Barbara Boxer have been around for decades. Why do they not agree to flip a coin, have one resign, and have Gov. Jerry Brown appoint Rep. Barbara Lee, head of the Black Caucus, to the U.S. Senate?

Why does not Barbara Mikulski, who has been there forever, not stand down and let Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley appoint Rep. Elijah Cummings of Baltimore to the Senate? Let Chuck Schumer go forth and do likewise, show us what a heroic liberal is, and let Gov. Andrew Cuomo name an African-American to replace him in the Senate.

Senate liberals applaud affirmative action programs that deny white students and white federal workers admissions and promotions they have earned by their labors. But when, ever, has one of these liberals voluntarily made the sacrifice that he demands be imposed upon others?

SOURCE: http://buchanan.org/blog/obamas-race-based-spoils-system-4844

[Sofiyya 1,687]

Senior management in the federal government is not there because of merit or superior skills. It's still about favoritism and who you know.

[Danno 1,228]

Senior management in the federal government is not there because of merit or superior skills. It's still about favoritism and who you know.

What percentage of Black americans have a 4 yr degree?

here I will help you out.

If blacks are only 13-15% of the population and only a fraction of that number are even qualified to be in senior level management...... how could you possibly expect them to be well represented in these positions... unless of course you show gross favoritism?

[Sofiyya 1,687]

The bare faced truth is there is already a lot of racism in government hiring and promotions. I've seen it first-hand for decades as a government employee in my youth and as a contractor and consultant. It's not even limited to White racism; Black supervisors in DC, a predominantly Black city, have told me that I'd get more work if I was Black. I've seen exceptionally well-educated minority engineers burdened with the "leadership" of a far less educated gay or White person who didn't know a thing about the job, but was friends with the Regional Director.

I was speaking about this situation recently with a government recruiter, who easily admitted that favoritism is rife in the government (he was retiring the next day). He told me that last November, new rules were implemented intended to prevent managers from requesting friends be placed on their qualified lists. Now, they aren't supposed to be able to see who is on the list, just their qualification score.

I know from experience that there is widespread abuse of the civil service rules. Family, friends, temporaries can be pre-selected for open positions that still must be advertised, per CS regulations. Other people apply and interview in earnest, but everyone knows beforehand who already has the job.

Government is loaded with little fiefdoms that waste money because, to maintain status, they "have to" to get more in the next budget. Hiring is also part of that fiefdom mentality. You hire people you believe will have your back, you hire favorite staffer's kids, etc.. It's not like that everywhere or always, but it's like that a lot.

Edited August 26, 2011 by Sofiyya

[Danno 1,228]

The bare faced truth is there is already a lot of racism in government hiring and promotions. I've seen it first-hand for decades as a government employee in my youth and as a contractor and consultant. It's not even limited to White racism; Black supervisors in DC, a predominantly Black city, have told me that I'd get more work if I was Black. I've seen exceptionally well-educated minority engineers burdened with the "leadership" of a far less educated gay or White person who didn't know a thing about the job, but was friends with the Regional Director.

I was speaking about this situation recently with a government recruiter, who easily admitted that favoritism is rife in the government (he was retiring the next day). He told me that last November, new rules were implemented intended to prevent managers from requesting friends be placed on their qualified lists. Now, they aren't supposed to be able to see who is on the list, just their qualification score.

I know from experience that there is widespread abuse of the civil service rules. Family, friends, temporaries can be pre-selected for open positions that still must be advertised, per CS regulations. Other people apply and interview in earnest, but everyone knows beforehand who already has the job.

Government is loaded with little fiefdoms that waste money because, to maintain status, they "have to" to get more in the next budget. Hiring is also part of that fiefdom mentality. You hire people you believe will have your back, you hire favorite staffer's kids, etc.. It's not like that everywhere or always, but it's like that a lot.

I know the voice of experience when I hear it.

[Usui Takumi 1,562]

I must admit that I have heard similar things about Washington DC.

[natty bumppo 297]

The bare faced truth is there is already a lot of racism in government hiring and promotions.

...

I know from experience that there is widespread abuse of the civil service rules. Family, friends, temporaries can be pre-selected for open positions that still must be advertised, per CS regulations. Other people apply and interview in earnest, but everyone knows beforehand who already has the job.

Government is loaded with little fiefdoms that waste money because, to maintain status, they "have to" to get more in the next budget. Hiring is also part of that fiefdom mentality. You hire people you believe will have your back, you hire favorite staffer's kids, etc.. It's not like that everywhere or always, but it's like that a lot.

nicely stated. may i be permitted to spell out the word that was hinted?

nepotism

[Sofiyya 1,687]

My family settled in VA, and almost everyone from my childhood worked/works for the federal government. My dad was a US military pilot, a great aunt was the White House seamstress, a neighbor was a WH butler. Two uncles worked at the GPO, my mom worked for the IRS, my stepmom was an adviser to four presidents and NASA. Two cousins currently work for NOAA and DOJ, one of my daughters works in the judicial branch, I have a son in the military, and I do a lot of government contracts and consulting, and should add that the government paid for my undergrad degree. And, that's just the tip of the iceberg. As soon as they got their US citizenship, many of our relatives and neighbors made a beeline for civil service. Government is the primary saturation industry in the DC Metro area.

It's understood that government service is and has never been a shining example of the best of law or human nature; it's so much about pettiness and besting the other guy. People go into it because it's hard to kick you out and, it's all they know. I got out because I realized that, if I stayed in, I would never do anything that made me feel like I was making a difference in the world.

I know the voice of experience when I hear it.