For over three decades the federal and states governments have developed a policy to give favors to certain groups of people in employment, promotion, and school admission. the groups favored under these programs have been defined by ethnicity, gender, and even sexual orientation. Populary called affirmative action, in reality, it is an unfair racist quota system.
In 1964, during the senate debate on the proposed civil rights act of that year, the bills floor manager, Hubert Humphrey, "assured the Senate that nothing in (Title VII of) the bill would permit any official or courtto require any employer or labor union to give prefferencial treatment to any minoryity group." (Lund, Reforming Affirmative Action in Employment) Whatever the intent of senator Humphrey may have been, "federal judges and buearucrats soon proved him wrong by using Title VII to create the elaborate system of quotas and preferences that we see all around us today. This transformation was accomplished through a series of Orwellian distortions of the law, none of which has ever been ratified by the Congress."(Lund) In the years since, affirmative action in its new form has extended its reach to include groups not historically considered disadvantaged, at least in the same since that blacks were. What origonally was linked as a short term leg up for individuals who had supposedly been held down by official policy has turned into a program of racial, ethnic and gender favortism.
Since competitive employment is a zero-sum game, the requirement to to employ a member of a favored group ultimately denies employment to another person without that membership. In the beginning these requirements appearded harmless, even worthwhile. However, they soon turned into a quota system that turns away capable individuals and business owners. For example, for almost thirty years the Labor department has used a "subtly worded set of rules that nonetheless had the effect of requiring racila quotas and preferences.
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