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After a career of being closely associated with the air traffic control system, I can confidently opine that female pilots should be near the bottom on anyone's list of safety concerns. Closer to the top of that list? Affirmative action.

Affirmative action has eroded the efficacy of the air traffic control system to an alarming degree. The air traffic controllers' strike in the summer of 1981 was a crisis that the social engineers did not let go to waste. They replaced the PATCO workforce with many of the liberal left's favorites. Let's just say their favorites do not include straight, white, competent, experienced males. However, some level of competence still must be added to the mix; the nature of air traffic control demands it. When flying tubes of flesh and jet fuel are hurtling hither and yon at breakneck speeds, someone has to break the ties. We can't have controllers doing a "bang-up" job.

> After a career of being closely associated with the air traffic control system, I can confidently opine that female pilots should be near the bottom on anyone's list of safety concerns. Closer to the top of that list? Affirmative action. > Affirmative action has eroded the efficacy of the air traffic control system to an alarming degree. The air traffic controllers' strike in the summer of 1981 was a crisis that the social engineers did not let go to waste. They replaced the PATCO workforce with many of the liberal left's favorites. Let's just say their favorites do not include straight, white, competent, experienced males. However, some level of competence still must be added to the mix; the nature of air traffic control demands it. When flying tubes of flesh and jet fuel are hurtling hither and yon at breakneck speeds, someone has to break the ties. We can't have controllers doing a "bang-up" job.

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[–] • 16 pts

We should be afraid of affirmative action in society: education, medicine, engineering, etc. I have family in health care and what I hear is staggering about affirmative action. I go to doctor offices judiciously.

[–] • 6 pts

You are absolutely correct. Lowering the standards to attain a position - any position - just causes unqualified people to fill them.

[–] • 5 pts

I hire people now. A college degree means nothing anymore. I screen people by giving a test that requires abstract thinking ability. Most people that have an attractive resume can not do the test adequately. However, it prevents me from having problems later.

[–] • 4 pts

Same here. I used resumes to give me an idea of what to expect but asked very specific questions during interviews.

[–] • 3 pts

I will refuse any so-called doc of color

[–] • 1 pt

Unless they are Asian. Black or Hispanic? No way.

[–] • 2 pts

If my doctor isn't a white male within 10 years of retirement, he's not my doctor anymore.

[–] • 1 pt

And I bet the 10 years until retirement will be getting shorter every year.

[–] • 2 pts

I had a female Paki 'doctor' tell me that a bump on my face was caused by my having 'issues' with a male member of my family. If I resolved the problem, the bump would go away. So I went to a plastic surgeon, and he cut it off. I reported the 'doctor', but nothing ever happened.

[–] • 1 pt

I can tolerate a nigger doctor for a consultation because often enough I can talk them into just giving me the drug I want. But that's because I do my own research and I don't rely on their half-assed reading of a test.

Would be much easier to have a white doctor I could trust so I could spend less time being my own doctor.

[–] • 0 pt

Blacks are capable of following procedures. They simply are not good at making decisions where they must use their previous knowledge to make a decision that isn't written down.