Re: JD Vance unloads on Obama and Biden's denial of white air-traffic controllers because of the color of their skin

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> On 2025-02-02, John Smyth <[email protected]> wrote:
>> ''That is a scandal': JD Vance unloads on Obama and Biden's denial of
>> white air-traffic controllers 'because of the color of their skin'
>>
>> 'It means we don't have the best and the brightest sometimes in these
>> positions. But even more importantly than that, even when we do get
>> really good people, they're going to be way overstressed''
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>><https://x.com/worldnetdaily/status/1886078277636296754>
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>> 'PALM BEACH, Florida – Vice President JD Vance is doubling down on
>> President Donald's Trump's suggestion that woke hiring policies of
>> the Obama and Biden administrations may have been factors in the
>> deadly collision between an American Airlines flight and a military
>> helicopter that killed 67 people at Ronald Reagan Washington National
>> Airport last week.
>>
>> Appearing on "Sunday Morning Futures" with Maria Bartiromo, Vance
>> explained: "Here's the specific way in which I think the DEI policies
>> of the last administration, the Obama administration contributed to
>> where we are.
>>
>> "We have a massive shortage of air-traffic controllers and, in fact,
>> there have been a number of lawsuits from people who would like to
>> become air-traffic controllers against the Obama and Biden
>> administration who basically said we were told not even to the apply
>> because of the color of our skin, because they were white people who
>> wanted to be air-traffic controllers, and under the DEI regime of the
>> Biden administration, they weren't welcome.
>>
>> "What does that mean? Number one, it means we don't have the best and
>> the brightest sometimes in these positions. But even more importantly
>> than that, even when we do get really good people, they're going to
>> be way overstressed because they're working long hours, because
>> air-traffic controllers are short staffed.
>>
>> "And we have known going back years … I was on the Commerce
>> Committee in the Senate. We knew for years that we had a shortage at
>> air-traffic control.
>>
>> "Well, part of the reason why we had a shortage at air-traffic
>> control is because we were telling our air-traffic controllers not to
>> hire people because of the color of their skin. That is a scandal,
>> and it is a scandal, thankfully, that has stopped under the
>> leadership of President Trump.
>>
>> "It's why I'm actually optimistic about aviation safety, but it's
>> also why we've had too many near misses and, unfortunately, a fatal
>> crash just a couple days ago."
>>
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>>
>> Bartiromo asked the vice president: "Do you have any if evidence that
>> any of those hires that were there at the control Wednesday night
>> were DEI hires?"
>>
>> Vance replied: "The president's been very clear about, this is in the
>> saying that the person who was at the controls is a DEI hire, but
>> let's just say, first of all, we should investigate everything. But
>> let's just say the person at the controls didn't have enough staffing
>> around him or her because we were turning people away because of DEI
>> reasons. 
>>
>> There is a very correct connection between the policies of the last
>> administration and short-staffed air-traffic controllers. That has to
>> stop. And, by the way, it's so funny the me, the media has … picked
>> up on this. The president made very clear that he wasn't blaming
>> anybody, but he was being very explicit about the fact that DEI
>> policies have led our air-traffic controllers to be short staffed.
>>
>> "That is a scandal. Thankfully, the it's a scandal that the president
>> has stopped."
>>
>>
>>
>> Vance was also asked if he plans to run for president in 2028.
>>
>> "We'll see what happens come 2028," he responded.
>>
>> "The best thing for my future is actually the best thing for the
>> American people which is that we do a really good job over the next
>> three and a half years. So, we'll cross the political bridge when we
>> come to it.
>>
>> "I'm not thinking about running for president. I'm thinking about
>> doing a good job for the American people and I think the best way to
>> do that is to make sure President Trump is a success.'
> 
> And as for funding, Biden planned on hiring 87,000 new IRS agents at a
> cost of $ 45 billion dollars.
> Why not hire ATC or other employees tasked with keeping people alive?

That's easy.  Fire the excess IRS agents they have now and hire ATC 
employees.