Diversity is killing us.  In March, 2022, the FAA updated it’s DEI policies.

From the FAA’s Diversity and Inclusion page.

The mission of the FAA involves securing the skies of a diverse nation. It only makes sense that the workforce responsible for that mission reflects the nation that it serves.

That doesn’t make sense at all.  It makes sense to have a workforce that is the most competent that can be found and have a dedication to safety.

Individuals with targeted or “severe” disabilities are the most under-represented segment of the Federal workforce.

The FAA is committed to hiring more people with ‘severe’ disabilities to up their share of the federal workforce.  The FAA is targeting people with specific disabilities.

Targeted disabilities are those disabilities that the Federal government, as a matter of policy, has identified for special emphasis in recruitment and hiring. They include hearing, vision, missing extremities, partial paralysis, complete paralysis, epilepsy, severe intellectual disability, psychiatric disability and dwarfism.

There is no problem with the FAA hiring dwarfs or paraplegics.   Hiring people to work for the FAA with severe intellectual or psychiatric disabilities is intended to undermine the organization and put Americans in danger.

If managers meet people who are too disabled to pass up, they can hire on the spot.

On-the-Spot Hiring
A non-competitive hiring method for filling vacancies with Veterans and/or individuals with disabilities. Managers can choose to fill an open position through the On-the-Spot hiring process given they provide the required documentation for doing so.

Pete Buttigieg is Secretary of Transportation.  His only qualifications are that he is gay and went to Harvard.