PIML 96062509 / Forwarded to Patriot Information Mailing List: [Yes. I'm convinced. The feds have gone totally insane.] PIML =================================================================== From: Jack@minerva.com To: UWSA%shell.portal.com@cerf.net Subject: Our Wondrous Government in Action Date: Mon, 24 Jun 96 19:29:43 PDT My! The July American Spectator came Lots of excerpts from Emmet Tyrell's new book about Clinton as well as a long article by James Bovard on the Governments GOON squad: OFCCP (Office of Federal Contract compliance) and the ways it uses to bankrupt companies that do not hire enought of the worst and most expensive filth available And now to a few of the more entertaining / distressing examples from the American Spectator. On April 20. 1994 Kentucky's Commonwealth Aluminum Corp was banned from bidding on federal contracts by the OFCCP. A little known but extremely powerful branch of the labor department. The OFCCP sought to strike a blow for handcapped rights, condemming the company for refusing to hire several individuals with serious back injuries and hernias for heavy lifting jobs at its aluminum processing plant. One deserving applicant according to the labor deparment was "blind in the left eye, had 60% hearing loss in the left ear and an 18% permanent back disability. Yet the OFCCP hounded commonwealth demanding that it provide back pay and retroactive senority benefits to the applicants -- even tho they never worked for the company [ clip ] Not surprisingly the virtual mandate to find disparity inevitably leads to preposterous situations -- ordering companies to hire men with hernias to perform heavy lifting, for example. On May 23, 1995, the OFCCP triumphantly announced that the Jack B Kelley trucking firm of Amarillo Texas, had agreed "to pay $76,749 in back wages to five qualified people that were denied jobs based on physical examinations. The company's drivers routinely handle hazardous waste,missle propellents, sulfuric acid and nitric acid. Drivers and maintenance personell must be able to move heavy loads while wearing respirators that make breathing significantly more difficult. According to Lee Drury, who handled the OFCCPs charges for the company, two of the applicants the company rejected were heavy smokers who showed sharply diminished lung capacity as well as possible signs of ephysema. Another case involved a man with eliptic seisures: even tho the seisuzes could not be fully controlled, the OFCCP ruled that the man should have been hired and put behind the wheel of a truck full of hazardous waste. To be continued! The day overflows with bad news for the Clintons. TPD was 385,000 bytes. No end of good cheer for WJC and evil wife Jack Jack Perrine | ATHENA Programming, Inc | 818-798-6574 | ---------------- | 1175 No. Altadena Drive | fax 398-8620 | jack@minerva.com | Pasadena, CA 91107 US | =================================================================== From: Jack@minerva.com To: UWSA%shell.portal.com@cerf.net Subject: Talk About Arrogance! Date: Mon, 24 Jun 96 19:59:23 PDT To continue our horror story of OFCCP The OFCCP also penalized the company for not hiring a man, who due to a recent operation, lacked the stength in his hands and arms to drive a large truck. Even tho Department of Transportation regulations prohibit someone in that condition from driving a heavy truck. The OFCCP found the company guilty, claiming its own rulings trumped DOT safety regulations. If the company had hired the man and had subsequently been involved in a fatal accident the company would have likely been found guilty of negligence in hiring him [ HOW ANYONE CAN EXPECT ANY SOCIETY TO SURVIVE AS LONG AS IT CONTAINS OBSCENE LIBERALS and their never ending protection of all of life's failures is a great mystery ] [ Clip to the really humorous rolling in the Aisles part Despite the flagrant abuses, however, Shirley Wilcher [ Head of this totally EVIL ORGANIZATION ] refuses to admit that her agency does anything but good, she announced earlier this year, for example that "the employer is never never required to hire a person who does not have the qualifications needed to perform the job successfully or hire an unqualified person in preference to another applicant who is qualified [ All of which only proves that the Clintons are totally ignorant of TRUTH and would not recognize it at high noon on main street if it was the only thing in view but they make it a necessary qualification to work in the Clinton administration to NEVER TELL THE TRUTH ] [ clip ] Last year, the agency reached a settlement with Prestolite Wire Corp., an automotive parts manufacturer, compelling it to pay over $1.2 million to 231 job applicants who were not hired allegedly because they were black or or handicapped. Illegal job tests were the crux of OFCCP's case: Prestolite issued a press release confessing that it :had retained the services of an expert testing firm during 1993 to administer certain per-employment tests and was not aware had a discriminatory impact on minority applicants [ How silly! Valid test of necessity has a discriminatory impact or they would not test anything ] But, as Herman Belz, author of that unheralded masterpiece EQUALITY TRANSFORMED, observes, "Since 1966, the underlying purpose of the federal civil rights test guidelines was to place enough obstacles in the way of employee selection so that employeers would chose to hire by race rather than objective criteria of merit" [ And people wonder why industry moves jobs as fast as possible elsewhere where they can hire by merit instead of quota ] Since blacks and Hispanics tend to score significantly lower on written tests of cognitive ability than do whites [ or Asians ] the OFCCP routinely presumes that practically any written test can be evidence of discrimination. Indeed the OFCCP Compliance Manual is written based on the assumption that any hiring standards that do not generate the correct diversity of employees is presumptively illegal [ Marveling at the surprising development that any jobs are left in this country ] In the agencies view, the fact that a company believes its workers need to to read at a certain level is an injustice to every illiterate person who applies for the job [ If with arrogance like that designed to make sure that only the most incompetent can be hired if the sole guiding principle of the EVIL LIBERALS IS NOT TO DESTROY THE WORLD one really wonders what it might be ] [One would really think that having forced all this trade legislation to enhance the marvelous market economy and create a more competitive country they would fire employeers for not strving to have the most compent workforce instead of the opposite of firing them for any attempt at having competent workers. Sigh ] [ To Be Continued ] Jack Jack Perrine | ATHENA Programming, Inc | 818-798-6574 | ---------------- | 1175 No. Altadena Drive | fax 398-8620 | jack@minerva.com | Pasadena, CA 91107 US | =================================================================== * Patriot Information Mailing List * http://constitution.org/piml/piml.htm * A service to help inform those who have an active interest in * returning our federal and state governments to limited, * constitutional government * Send messages for consideration and possible posting to * butterb@sagenet.net (Bill Utterback). * To subscribe or unsubscribe, send message with subject line * "subscribe patriot" or "unsubscribe patriot" * Forwarded messages sent on this mailing list are NOT verified. * See World's Smallest Political Quiz: www.self-gov.org/quiz.html * Libertarian is to LIBERTY as librarian is to library (DePena) * PIML grants permission to copy and repost this message * in its entirety with headers and trailers left intact.