I agree with this however Joe and Palantir are hypocrites. Last year Palantir offered TWO HUNDRED JOBS EXCLUSIVELY FOR JEWS, that IS equivalent if not worse than minority contracting. It’s clear Joe and his cabal want no minority rights… unless it’s for Jews of course. Sorry whites. Sorry blacks. Sorry Asians. You’re simply not Jewish.
This piece gave a lot of clarity into this issue. Thanks for the awesome article and the information. Hopefully this can be DOGED out at the federal level anyway!
A friend had an engineering firm and submitted bids through a "front" man company. He pleaded with that individual to not change anything. Sometimes it worked, sometimes it did not. I suspected that it was pervasive. Thanks for all of your common-sense commentary.
Do you dislike these programs because they give advantages based on race and gender; because they give advantages at all; or because they have been abused?
If the first, would you be equally upset if advantages were given to new businesses, or businesses owned by persons who were the first in their family to attend college? That would more directly effectuate policy goals, but may not be legal given SCOTUS precedent that such groups do not constitute a suspect class.
If the second, that seems like a fundamental disagreement with government function. Many laws aim to make our society more stable and financially equal (e.g., our mathematically progressive tax code). If you argue that no company should ever be awarded an advantage in government contracts, that treats government as a business - which it’s not. You also run the risk of the government creating or bolstering monopolies it later must prosecute under antitrust law.
If the third… we can all agree that Fraud Is Bad. Without oversight, however, it’s inevitable in such large systems. (Consider Medicare/ Medicaid fraud.) The simplest solution would be to hire more staff to audit these contracts. But that solution is at odds with the current administration’s efforts to gut the federal workforce.
The complaint about "fraud" in these set-aside programs is a secondary or even tertiary problem. Either way, while the fakery is appalling and interesting, it's the abject racist practices that should be the end of these programs.
Thank God for you, Joe. I pray for you every night. You're addressing things that no one else will touch. You give me hope.
I agree with this however Joe and Palantir are hypocrites. Last year Palantir offered TWO HUNDRED JOBS EXCLUSIVELY FOR JEWS, that IS equivalent if not worse than minority contracting. It’s clear Joe and his cabal want no minority rights… unless it’s for Jews of course. Sorry whites. Sorry blacks. Sorry Asians. You’re simply not Jewish.
That’s a pretty bold allegation. Do you have proof to support it?
No, he's a troll.
I know. Sometimes politely pointing out a lack of evidence encourages the troll to return to his bridge.
This piece gave a lot of clarity into this issue. Thanks for the awesome article and the information. Hopefully this can be DOGED out at the federal level anyway!
A friend had an engineering firm and submitted bids through a "front" man company. He pleaded with that individual to not change anything. Sometimes it worked, sometimes it did not. I suspected that it was pervasive. Thanks for all of your common-sense commentary.
Do you dislike these programs because they give advantages based on race and gender; because they give advantages at all; or because they have been abused?
If the first, would you be equally upset if advantages were given to new businesses, or businesses owned by persons who were the first in their family to attend college? That would more directly effectuate policy goals, but may not be legal given SCOTUS precedent that such groups do not constitute a suspect class.
If the second, that seems like a fundamental disagreement with government function. Many laws aim to make our society more stable and financially equal (e.g., our mathematically progressive tax code). If you argue that no company should ever be awarded an advantage in government contracts, that treats government as a business - which it’s not. You also run the risk of the government creating or bolstering monopolies it later must prosecute under antitrust law.
If the third… we can all agree that Fraud Is Bad. Without oversight, however, it’s inevitable in such large systems. (Consider Medicare/ Medicaid fraud.) The simplest solution would be to hire more staff to audit these contracts. But that solution is at odds with the current administration’s efforts to gut the federal workforce.
The complaint about "fraud" in these set-aside programs is a secondary or even tertiary problem. Either way, while the fakery is appalling and interesting, it's the abject racist practices that should be the end of these programs.
We should also be killing federal IDIQ contracts!