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Obama To Openly Welcome Criminals As Government Workers
President Obama has just unleashed a new executive order to remove admission of a criminal history from job applications, or in The White House's words, to reduce potential discrimination against former convicts in the hiring process for federal government employees. As NBC News reports, this is a further step towards what many criminal justice reformers call "ban the box" – the effort to eliminate requirements that job applicants check a box on their applications if they have a criminal record - and continues Obama’s emphasis on assisting criminals who want to re-enter society as part of his continuing agenda items from his "My Brother’s Keeper Task Force."
About 60-to-75% of former inmates cannot find work within their first year out of jail, according to the Justice Department, a huge impediment to re-entering society.
Research shows the existence of a criminal record can reduce an employer’s interest in applicant by about 50%, and that when white and black applicants both have records, employers are far less likely to call back a black applicant than a white one. As a 2009 re-entry study in New York city found, “the criminal record penalty suffered by white applicants (30%) is roughly half the size of the penalty for blacks with a record (60%).”
And so, as NBC News reports, President Obama's executive order is a step towards what many criminal justice reformers call “ban the box” – the effort to eliminate requirements that job applicants check a box on their applications if they have a criminal record.
While the rule was once seen as a common sense way for employers to screen for criminal backgrounds, it has been increasingly criticized as a hurdle that fosters employment discrimination against former inmates, regardless of the severity of their offense or how long ago it occurred. Banning the box delays when employers learn of an applicant’s record.
Obama unveiled the plan on a visit to a treatment center in New Jersey, a state where Republican Gov. Chris Christie signed a ban the box bill into law last year. Hillary Clinton endorsed ban the box last week, while Republican Sen. Rand Paul also introduced similar federal legislation, with Democratic Sen. Cory Booker, to seal criminal records for non-violent offenders.
The White House says it is “encouraged” by such legislation in a new statement, but emphasizes the president’s order will take immediate action, mandating that the federal government’s HR department “delay inquiries into criminal history until later in the hiring process.”
President Obama spoke to several federal prisoners about that very approach in July, when he was the first sitting president to visit an American prison.
“If the disclosure of a criminal record happens later in a job application process,” he told them, “you’re more likely to be hired.” Obama described what many studies show – that when many employers see the box checked for an applicant’s criminal record, they weed them out without ever looking at their qualifications.
“If they have a chance to at least meet you,” the president continued, “you’re able to talk to them about your life, what you’ve done, maybe they give you a chance.”
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The question now is - what happens when they finally check your criminal background, discover you are a convict, and then remove you from the recruitment process? How long before The White House mandates a minimum convict-hiring program?
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Just when you think the Obama administration can't find something even more stupid to do.....
Screw you, WHITEY! We gots some crack deal'n gang bangers to give $100K/year gubmint jobs to.
Step 1 in the jack booted recruitment class. What will a felon be willing to do to keep that $96k/year job? Looks like we might just find out... Not enough ex-soldiers who are willing to do whatever it takes, so you have to expand the pool to pull from.
How many more fucking jobs do these former Goldmanites need!!!---Oh?, you say I should read the article first.
Ohhh!! thoooose criminals. Gangsters, Banksters, whatever they all want to fuck us over.
Bank robbery, mugging, murder...they sound much better now.
I hate Obama but he is right in this instance. Punishment used to be something you endured (do the crime - do the time) and then you were free to go back into society. Now you never ever escape the system. Your record makes you a pariah in society so that you can't get a job and have to resort to crime to stay alive. Criminals become a permanent underclass. Records can be held in the courts unseen unless you're convicted of another crime and face sentencing. Keeping the stigma of a crime all your life is clearly a "cruel and unusual punishment" and proscribed by the Constitution.
"I hate Obama but he is right in this instance."
WTF? You shouldn't be able to re-enter a "free society" if you fuck up!
We are talking "felonies" here.
So, the 80% of us act like decent humans and don't commit felonies, like murder, rape, pedophilia, assault and battery...and a fucking "felon" gets the same rights?
This is not a liberal/conservative issue, it is a "lowering of standards" issue as what is left of this fuckshit country circles the drain.
The rich will always have all the "freedom" (above the law) they want...and why is that never an issue?
Justice needs to be meted out equally if we are going to prescribe a stringent standard. Bankers steal trillions,
while hoodlums steal millions; deep state moves tons of dope, while hoodlums move pounds; the rich kill
somebody and hire a seven figure defense attorney, while the hoodlum gets an over worked public defender.
We say there are no second chances, but oftentimes (depending on your circumstance) there are no first
chances; or hundreds of chances----there's the rub.
I bet Cloward and Piven never thought of this one!
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(AP)
"St. Louis, Philadelphia, and other major cities are set to replace their police personnel with ex-cons under a new "Cons to Cops" Program put in place by The Bath House.
At the Rose Garden ceremony today, The Bath House stated "...no longer will prior convicts have to worry about carrying pistols or other weapons. Too much discrimination has been placed on habitual offenders caught with stolen firearms. That will no longer be a problem with "Cons to Cops," the Bath House said in his opening remarks.
That's the goal. Nobody in private industry would hire a convict, so the government has to. Now there will be two types of government workers, those that were caught and did time, and those that haven't yet (and probably never will).
It's part of the revolving door policy. Prison, gov job, banker, fed, prison...
Obama will not finish his second term! Current Events Linked to Ancient Biblical Prophecy!
http://motivationdose.com/is-america-babylon/
This is logical. To succeed in .gov, you need a criminal's mentality. Can't steal well from others? Fuck you, next applicant. Can't lie convincingly to the masses? Fuck you, next in line. Can't tyrannize effectively? Not IRS material. How about fondling crotches in public? NO, well TSA doesn't want you. Maybe you are a stone cold killer? Maybe not? Well you're not good enough to be a cop or DHS strormtrooper.
Can a sex offender now work at a public school?
"Can a sex offender now work at a public school?"
Isn't that a prerequisite ?
Criminals. Working for an entity that MUST STEAL every single fucking dime that it spends....and this is cause for alarm in what way? Government is simply the most popular criminal gang in a geographic region.
FFS! At least Hitler and Stalin spent time in jail.
Sex offenders must only apply for, and automatically receive leadership positions in congress. Such as Dennis Hastert, who held the Speaker of the House from January 6, 1999 – January 3, 2007.
Under his leadership thousands of pages of Tax Code and other regulations were passed. Non-violent offenders imprisoned by appointed federal judges. Lots of innocent brown people on the other side of the world got killed. Depleted uranium exported at a profit. Patronage jobs filled in every agency.
He was also paying hush money to kids he sexually abused while being ... wait for it ... a teacher and coach. All swept under the rug.
The pedo scandals in the clergy are top page news for years. Nobody forces you to be part of a church. They have been dragging Bill Cosby through the mud for 6 months now for slipping spanish fly into super models drinks for sex. Nobody really forces adult women to spend time alone in private places with wealthy, famous, adult men like cosby.
But you are forced to go to public schools and be an american, unless you can afford the $100,000 minimum it takes to ex-pat ...
It is scarey to realize our rulers are more perverted than the Bungu Bunga type like Berlesconi.
only if he is a fag - sorry - i mean gay.
Only as a principal or assistant principal plus coaching positions.
OK, so I need to pick the word that doesn't belong...(insert jepordy thinking tune)...well it's either banker or prison
because we know those neeeever go together. What is prison Alec.
no problem with the crack sales...these fuckers won't even show up for "work" and will get 100/k/year with "free" healthcare & retirement benefits
Obama is just applying the standards already in use at the Treasury Department.
Not just Treasury, Wall Street, Bitchez.
MsCreant;
The only difference between a convicted criminal and a government worker or banker is the former got caught.
K
We're catchin' em' too, here at ZH. No power to prosecute, but the case is being made daily by Tyler(s) for anyone who is paying attention.
Nothing new. The Federal gov't been hiring criminals for over a century. That's how we got the Federal Reseve and the Income tax. That said, the gov't usually hires smarter and more deviant criminals, compares to street criminals. Lets face the facts: Washington is the worlds biggest organize crime syndicate of all time.
More Stupid:
Actually, he is now a real life, genuine Dictator, no different from Mussolini, Hitler, or Stalin.
http://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/the-administration/258689-leaked-...
The USSA is finally the Dictatorship Bath House has worked for. Expect Hitlery to go to jail. Expect The Bath House to remain in Power after some kind of "event" his Zionist handlers are planning!
"Child Molestors, killers and rapists have gotten a bad rap in the old USA. In my new Soviet, with this new EO, they will get preferential hiring at any .gov department."
Forward!
Pass a few bad checks and they arbitrarily take away your God-given right to self defense with a firearm.
Commit a nasty felony and get a cushy gov't job.
Soooo, will we still need to check that box to purchase firearms, or apply for Federally issued Merchant Mariner Credentials?
I wonder how Obamma's sad-eyed ugly mother must feel at the antics of her bastard son?
That fat ugly white bitch hopped on every black and Muslim dick she came across and then she went to work for the CIA. She's proudly guiding her bastard son from Marxist hell.
Has his daddy Frankie Davis joined her yet?
You asked for it, you got it....liberalism.
(it's going to be extended to Voting rights....it's ALL about voting rights)
Shite bro, where you been? My state already passed that mess. The ballot question was phrased as a measure to keep voting machines out of the penitentiary. Unbelievably dishonest framing. Walk out that gate however... (the small print).
They're just joining their fellow criminals at work, no big deal.
America looks like the star wars bar
and obozo is Guido
TO be fair, there was a lot of sentence enhancing started under Clinton that turned misdemeanors into felonies in order to pay off the for-profit prison system.
Because politicians would not admit their own complicity in that farce, they just threw out the baby with the bathwater...
Because the government isn't already filled with criminals???
Let's see... there is a societal belief system (ie religion) that some institution called "the government" has the "legal" (they make all the laws) right to use force upon the "citizens" it supposedly "represents," which criminals and psychopathes wouldn't concentrate there?
Obviously he is trying to grease his on skids. ...retroactively.
Next we will have convicts running the justice system.....oh shit! Too late....
Maniacs running the asylum for sure.
Hardly newsworthy as I don't see how anyone will be able to tell the difference.
I thought the checked box would enhance a person's chances for government employment.
These employees will be the new FCOC= "Federal Creative Opportunity Commision".
They'll encapsulate the FDA, EPA, DoD, DoE and answer directly to Valerie Jarrett.
"They'll encapsulate the FDA, EPA, DoD, DoE and answer directly to Valerie Jarrett."
Yep, shortly before they're encapsulated in pine boxes.
I agree with this. If you've paid your debt to society you shouldn't have to be punished for the rest of your life. A lot of people made mistakes when they're 20 and now can't get a job at 40+ even though they've done nothing wrong for decades. Obviously in certain circumstances, working with children, etc, it's a different story. But possession or a fight? The punishment doesn't fit the crime.
Your logical and reasonable approach is incompatible with the US police state.
It depends on the type of crime and the criminal history. In this case, the employer isn't supposed to discriminate against a violent career criminal? Would 0bozo or any of these politicians bring a convicted murderer or rapist into their home as a caretaker for their family or handyman? If not, then they shouldn't expect anyone else to do the same by bringing that criminal into their business. Next thing you know, it will be illegal to ask if someone has a college degree because not enough blacks and Latinos have graduated from college.
Ayn Rand called it.
They will not let you use your faculties of reason.
Nope.
Who are YOU to make judgments on others?
Personally,...Im a racist. I admit it.....ya know why?
In my experience black and other minorities are animals.
Now,...I will take the Constitutionalist Black like Ben Carson as my neighbor any day of the week but in my experience,..most blacks are democrat animals.
And,..in my experience,....most criminals...are ...welll criminals.
But govt is AGAINST allowing reasoned judgement.
We are soooooo fucked.
Better look closer, chief.
Carson is a gun grabber.
http://www.mediaite.com/tv/conservative-hero-ben-carson-to-beck-you-have...
Dr. Carson is not a gun grabber. Carson said that “under no circumstances” would he “allow a bureaucrat to remove any law-abiding citizen’s rights for any kind of weapon that they want to protect themselves.”
http://gunssavelives.net/gun-politics/ben-carson-clarifies-his-stance-on...
Carson was asked about a passage in his book "A More Perfect Union" suggesting that gun regulation during 1930s Germany meant Jews couldn’t resist the Nazis. The Republican candidate didn’t flinch: “I think the likelihood of Hitler being able to accomplish his goals would have been greatly diminished if the people had been armed. There’s a reason these dictatorial people take the guns first.”
@lordbyroniv
Ben Carson is just another thug
http://dailycaller.com/2014/06/12/the-time-dr-ben-carson-knifed-a-classm...
And he is raking off the $$$ with his fund-raising.
"Just Us" need more thugs to do their bidding.
Insane.
0bozo's domestic army
"Welcome to CNN! We go live to Wolf Blitzed at d hs HQ in DC! Wolf?"
"Thanks, Coop, well, the buses keep pulling into dh s HQ tonight from federal prisons all over the fruity plains! Each bus is filled with just released felonious convicts hired by The Bath House's new "Cons to Cops" program! D hs expects to soon have 100,000 new agents on the streets within a few weeks after an intensive 3-day training program for the now-former convicts. Back to you in Atlanta!"
We are NOT our brother's keeper. We are our own keeper
We live in a time when criminality is rewarded and hard work is disrespected. A prideless, respectlless leadership that promotes criminality in fast and furious, Benghazi, crony capitalism. The inmates finally really do run the asylum.
Obama is a criminal himself
Let's put crooks in chage of healtcare, the IRS, and the SEC!
Oh wait, never mind.....
Obama has just introduced the apprentice system to government.
Nothing more than another pandering to blacks.
They piss and moan say'n axing this question is racis b/c blacks are convicted of crimes disproportionly to their population. Dat be unfair.
Makes you want to pull your hair out.
It is sorta unfair when the college kid gets an expungement and the poor minority in an aggressively policed neighborhood can't afford one, that is assuming the college boy and his middle to upper class parents can't find a way to get charges dropped to begin with
Good to know my taxpayer dollars are being used to give convicted criminals subsidized jobs. In fact forget consequences, why not just eliminate jail altogether? We need to protect our convicted criminals, they are valued members of society.... who were removed from society because we decided they added no value to society in a decision made by a jury compromised of members of said society.
Now excuse me while I buy a gun.
how else can pedophiles get jobs in day cares?
Are you shitting me???Whats new?
LOL, gang-bangers set lose.
Obama is determined to destroy private enterprise one way or another.
Perhaps this fellow will get a nice Federal Affirmative Action position:
Was this on NPR? Did ABC, CBS, NBC headline this?????
As his pal films it, the assailant is 25, the victim is 45 and last I read was in critical condition this occurred in Atlantic City, NJ. This was NOT a "hate crime" you see, must have been a "LOVE CRIME"
White Woman Gets KO'd By black man
Atlantic City man arrested after posting facebook video-of-himself
The President might also consider these fine examples of the New America:
Black Punches White Female Cop, Crowd Cheers
Viral video of police altercation shows current Baltimore ‘environment’ Baltimore Sun Oct 9 2015
http://www.worldstarhiphop.com/videos/video.php?v=wshhecRT96iq3P6muX35
Victim: White woman Perps: Blacks
Disturbing video shows woman being punched, stomped on outside north side gas station
Murder, in Black and White
HORROR! Black Youths Mock and Laugh at Unconscious and Bloody White Victim After July 4th Beatdown (VIDEO)
This video was shot on Friday June 19, 2015 outside of Herfurth Elementary School in Rowlett, Texas. A black male is taking the video: a vicious attack on a White 14-year-old female holding her three-year-old niece and a white female friend are sitting on a park bench. This was described as a "schoolyard brawl." SERIOUSLY a "schoolyard brawl" !!!
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=923_1435624056
The attackers "APPEARED" to be black!!
Indianapolis Playground Beating: Girl and Her Little Brother Brutally Attacked in Park March 15, 2015
The Indianapolis playground beating may have been racially motivated. The victim and her brother were white and the attackers appeared to be black. As the victim was asking why she was being attacked, one of the boys in the group appeared to answer, “You white, bitch.”
Young Girl and Little Brother attacked
Video posted on (and removed from) facebook of brutal attack on a female and her little brother
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=b10_1426395873
Cops Post Video of Brutal Beating in Attempt to ID Suspects; YouTube Removes
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=282_1409879278
Unprovoked Brutal Bashing of Couple
Police have released chilling CCTV footage of what they are describing as a 'hate crime', where a group of men have viciously assaulted a couple from behind.
Glad to help with your new hiring program!
Just use this, Mr President, as a Hiring List:
http://newnation.org/
The modern democracies of the West, with their philosophies of the stomach and the stock exchange, cannot inspire the people nor protect them. They despise nationhood and despise race. But without our national and racial backbones how shall we stand erect? With quicksands as our foundation how shall we build? How shall we be true to ourselves if we have no selves? Our race is what we are; it is our form. It is our fathers and mothers and brothers and sisters and wives and children. They are the race. How then shall we count it of little worth? Shall we despise our own flesh and blood? Is that what modern democracy is supposed to mean? Is that what Christianity is supposed to mean?
WHITE MAN, THINK AGAIN! by Anthony Jacob, Johannesburg 1965
We already have criminals working for every alphabet agency in Washington City a/k/a the federal corporation. As IF this will change anything? LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
P.S. Isn't every IRS employee already guilty of criminal fraud, thievery, threats, duress and coercion?
Government workers inherently ARE criminals & predators. Not counting the predatory acts they commit at work, they knowingly receive stolen goods every paycheck.
i thought being a criminal was a basic requirement for employment with the government at all levels...
Hahahahahahahahahaha. Should it catch fire,,let it burn.
it has something to do with cost-of-labor
maybe someday folks will catch on
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https://enronnext101.wordpress.com/
Hire 'em all as prison guards!
He did that for Hillary.
I figure the ones they hire can't be any worse than the ones already there.
Hillary is already there
Wait, the applicant(s) will eventually get a background check (including criminal) even if there's no checkbox for that on the application.
So, when they do eventually get the background check and the criminal history pops-up on the screen, they are still forced to be hired or not?
Also, Congress is once again AWOL regarding the Kenyan dictator in the WH. Don't they have a say in this?!
Make no mistake, it won't be "official" policy, but there will be hiring quotas for those with criminal backgrounds.
Well the TSA lines will speed up... More new wortkers going through your purse, wallet and luggage.
Obomber has fucked the Unions and US worker like no one else.
You fucks are a bunch of hypocrits! All the crying about the now 1/3 of the population with a record, bullshit convictions, and now you want to cry about this?
Why do I take that stance? Well, let's see, a few years ago I got fucked over royal for about 2k in transmission repairs from an asshole that was also the mayor. I had the unfort experience of running into this ass at a bar, we exchanged words, he poked me in the chest, I knocked his lights out.
I now have assault on my record, still out the 2k, and had to pay that asswipe nearly $3k.
So, some of you need to rethink your bullshit comments.
By all means, lets ignore the mean for your exception. The government is loaded to the gills with affirmative action placeholders that rule over their former "oppressors" and now we will be able to infuse those who were in the past excluded by their criminality, joining the current criminals in office. Perfect, and all because you couldn't hold your temper at a bar.
There is no doubt that the broad sweep of government is stepping on lots of people, but rather than stepping back and using some common sense and JUDGEMENT in selecting people, they now simply can't ask, be they a shoplifter, pot smoker or lifetime criminal murderer.
great! let's hope he hires a child molestar as a babysitter
great! let's hope he hires a child molester as a babysitter
What a perverted world. Kids peeing in an empty alley after a night drinking being labeled as "sex offenders" and having to register, a good percentage of the prison population being convicted of non-violent crimes (marijuana possession), then obozo says that's ok, we won't discriminate against you, so long as you're "our kind of criminal" wink wink. So instead of making some meaningful reform, he entrenches further the bullshit. What a surprise.
"Come work for us because nobody else will hire you. Do what you're told or else." Seems like a good way to get some pretty nasty things accomplished.
This country sucks, and it's about to suck a lot more pretty soon.
Its pretty obvious deliberate societal destruction.
I thought he and G.W. were openly doing that for enlisted personnel in the United States military recruiting some of the worst form of human scum from penitentiaries across the Country, in some cases erasing sentences for murder and rape as long as they commit to join?!!!
I am surprised to see all the negative comments here. If you see a good cross section of all these people labeled as criminals, most of them have rinky dink stupid charges and nonviolent felonies yet it is almost impossible for them to advance themselves after prison.
Even Koch industries, not known for their progressivist tendencies, eliminated the criminal conviction question in the first round of applicant selection. It does get disclosed later in the process for those without the money for an expungement who actually have to answer yes. Only poor people get screwed by the current system.
Criminals already work in government.
Let's hope they go to the front of the line. Even in front of veterans.
This could backfire badly if a Republican with a clue got elected President. He could not abolish the EPA, OSHA, or dozens of other government agencies that are regulating our economy to death. But he could expand their staff with thousands of non-white criminals fresh out of prison. The non-felon bureaucrats would then be beaten and robbed on a daily basis, and if they complain, they'll be disciplined for "racism"!
CabalA$$LickerLiarDrugAddictCriminalHomObamma : The accolades for the king keeps on getting bigger & bigger
Let humanity understand this is the 'AbominationThatLeadsToDesolation'
Brothers!!!
And the promise to fundamentally change America continues.
This has been happening in the oil sector for a while now. People justified it by saying that they desperately needed to fill the positions but that wasn't accurate as time went on, convicts are however, cheaper to employ. I met a reservation cop who began running backgrounds looking for sex offenders among the tenants of a corporate trailer park/man camp (child was assaulted) and the place was loaded with them. Hiring sex offenders and ex-convicts wasn't an anomaly it was a policy. This is another benefit of shifting responsibility and liability through using temp agencies and independent contracting etc.
We are getting hammered from all sides: Import slave labor, outsourcing, hiding ex-cons, it seems our standard of living is still far too high to suit these assholes.