From: rabbitsfriendsandrelations@hotmail.com   
      
   John Mazor wrote:   
      
   > "Eeyore"  wrote   
   > > John Mazor wrote:   
   > >> "NoneYa"  wrote   
   > >> >   
   > >> > And you wonder why our Air Traffic Control system here   
   > >> > in America is slowly falling into chaos and our test   
   > >> > scores are falling in America??   
   > >>   
   > >> I dunno about test scores but the state of our ATC system   
   > >> has nothing to do with your racist rants here.   
   > >   
   > > Isn't it the case though that 'positive action' or   
   > > whatever it's called allows coloured ppl of lower   
   > > ability than competing white candidates to be offered   
   > > employment in order to maintain racially based   
   > > 'quotas' ?   
   > >   
   > > Graham   
   >   
   > We all have seen examples of the marginally competent   
   > individual who probably owes his/her job to some form of   
   > quota hiring, although people who obsess on that almost   
   > always ignore the fact that not everyone who gets hired that   
   > way is a sub-par performer.   
      
   I wish !   
      
      
   > They also overlook all the incompetent people of their own race who owe their   
   > position   
   > to favoritism, sycophancy, dumb luck, and the Peter Principle.  They far   
   > outnumber the former in most   
   > workplaces.   
      
   I personally see a situation where really quite incompetent management has   
   virtually become the norm today. The aspects you mention have all played their   
   part in this.   
      
      
   > However, as I said, to attribute FAA's failures in providing   
   > adequate air traffic services to that effect is like trying   
   > to blame our quagmire in Iraq on the existence of black   
   > officers in the military.  If our military were lilly white,   
   > nothing would be different.  The causes and problems of the   
   > Iraq debacle have nothing to do with race.  In fact, with   
   > the exception of one woman of color now in the cabinet, the   
   > whole debacle was engineered by white males in the highest   
   > levels of power.   
   >   
   > The causes of FAA's failures have been well documented and   
   > discussed in the media and within the industry.  Nowhere is   
   > race mentioned as factor.   
      
   I honestly can't comment in detail but I've noticed that we have creeping   
   'stupiditis' in the UK too and it seems to infect governmental departments more   
   than civilian business entitities. Usual excuses seem to be related to claims   
   of  'human rights' and such wishy washy stuff.   
      
   Oh for people appointed purely on their ability or skill again !   
      
      
   Graham   
      
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