“The question we ask today is not whether our government is too big or too small, but whether it works — whether it helps families find jobs at a decent wage, care they can afford, a retirement that is dignified.” – President Obama, Inauguration (2009)
What POSSIBLY go wrong? I guess the Ban The Box activists are going to be proud of this – the real question is whether or not they are willing to personally take responsibility, fiscally or otherwise, if what a lot of us thinking, happens:
FEDS HIRED A CREDIT CARD FRAUD FELON FRESH OUT OF PRISON, NOW HE RUNS A BIG VA PURCHASING UNIT: Trust me, friends, the Daily Caller News Foundation Investigative Group’s Luke Rosiak did not make up this story that captures pretty much everything that is wrong with the Department of Veterans Affairs (and probably the federal bureaucracy in general as well).
“Almost immediately after Federal Bureau of Prisons Inmate #11109-017 completed a 14-month sentence for using sensitive credit card data on his previous employer’s computer system to steal $70,000, he was hired by the Department of Veterans Affairs in a position that ultimately led to his present job — running an office racked with credit card fraud and bribery problems,” Rosiak writes this morning.
So now that Obama has Banned the Box for a lot of agencies in their hiring practices, should we expect to see future stories about prior felons, well, feloning again? There’s a perfectly good reason why a potential employer should have some upfront warning about criminal pasts of potential candidates. Yes, I know that they have paid the price with the loss of their liberty for some amount of time, but consider this in this VA setting: the bureaucracy has already KILLED vets (by manipulating lots of paperwork and schedules so as to “make the metrics” for managers to make bonuses – even if it caused veteran deaths). Now they are putting this same veteran population at risk for credit and identity fraud?
Sorry, this is not “it works“.
(H/T: Instapundit)
