Obama, Frank & Dodd Expand Racial & Gender Profiling

It is disappointing in an era when Americans have overcome so many employment stereotypes and negative racial profiling that legislation developed by Barney Frank and Sen. Chris Dodd and supported by Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid and President Obama will Federally expand the use of racial and gender profiling in employment. the bill codifies Government sponsored discrimination which forces Government Agencies and businesses to profile everyone and to choose people for positions not on best qualified but to meet quotas. The Democrats are bringing back to the era of quotas verse qualifications. And, be assured that with Barney Franks authorship of the bill, the word "gender" will come to mean more than "male or female."

Kevin Mooney of Americans for Limited Government (ALG) identifies in an article that "Government agencies and private contractors must incorporate racial and gender preferences into their employment practices under Section 342 of the financial regulation bill, which passed the House on June 30. This key provision calls for the creation of at least 20 new Offices of Minority and Women inclusion."

Diana Furchtgott-Roth, a senior fellow with the Hudson Institute has warned: “Section 324’s provisions are broad and vague and are certain to increase inefficiency in federal agencies,” she has observed. “To comply, federal agencies are likely to find it easier to employ and contract with less-qualified women and minorities, merely in order to avoid regulatory trouble. This would in turn decrease the agencies’ efficiency, productivity and output, while increasing their costs.”

Mooney also identifies that "The interjection of racial and gender preferences into America’s financial section deserves greater media exposure and should figure prominently into the debate when the U.S. Senate returns from recess to vote on the bill, which is sponsored by Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA) and Sen. Chris Dodd (D-CN). Frank and Dodd have also slid additional amendments into the bill that have not been voted on in either the House or the Senate."

Unfortunately, Senator Scott Brown (R-MA) has announced that he will support the financial takeover bill in the Senate which will expand racial and gender profiling (discrimination). This is most disappointing since Scott Brown was elected on the backs of conservatives who worked tirelessly to help  Brown  defeat a liberal  in hopes that Brown would help stop the Democrat agenda and expanding Government mandates. Conservatives may have helped Brown, but, as things are developing, it appears Massachusetts may have elected an undependable RINO. Would someone ask Brown, why he supports the Government expanding racial and gender profiling and a quota system in the financial industry?

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