Pendleton Act of 1883, our federal government used difficult tests to help fill departments .By the 1970s, less than 10% of test takers scored high enough on government PACE exams to qualify for senior leadership.
Because of racial disparities in the results, activist courts ruled that even if tests were predictive of job performance, they were illegal because of the “disparate impact.” Soon, the government was hiring people who would have failed these tests — less qualified people from all backgrounds. President Jimmy Carter’s 1979-80 Democratically-controlled Congress also made it harder to hold government workers accountable. Since then, the bureaucracy has become dumber and dumber. Cut funding to Universities & Colleges that deploy Affirmative Action. We are the only species on the planet that would overlook the smartest among us and let the most “colorful” or most “vocal” lead the way.
Trump ,Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy have a golden opportunity to shift the direction of the country to MERIT vs COLOR .
Dump the Dept of Education and widen school choice and watch test scores improve and that will improve outcomes for young people along with the Country as a whole !
The Federal government gives away billions in Grant Money to large swaths of questionable groups. A whole industry of Grant Application writers exists to milk the Taxpayer funds for everything they can get.
Diversity = NOT WHITE .
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