Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) went along with the bill proposed in bipartisan meetings with the GOP, until Rep. Nancy "Dancing Hands" Pelosi came back from vacation and told Chucky to back off the bill and let her handle it. Well, since Chucky's testicles are now located in Pelosi's purse, now that he's backed off, she showed total lack of compassion for those in need over the Wuhan Coronavirus pandemic.
In the spirit of Saul Alinsky, former President Obama's adviser, Rahm Emanuel smugly said, "You never let a serious crisis go to waste."
Nancy Pelosi has now done her level best to perfect that idea by using the coronavirus pandemic to shove identity politics, in the spirit of socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's (D-NY) Green New Deal, onto corporate America.
Pelosi’s politics as usual
bill is a veritable pork barrel for programs that would force corporations to implement "diversity and inclusion" initiatives and have absolutely nothing to do with fighting the Wuhan Coronavirus, aka COVID-19, and preventing its spread.
It is disgusting and outrageous that Pelosi would hold the nation's physical and financial health hostage with a bill designed to remake the corporate world a model for identity politics. The "damn bill" uses the word diversity/diverse 63 times and the word inclusion 14 times. The coronavirus is an equal opportunity infector and includes whoever gets in its way. It also uses the word minority 109 times laying out funding for Pelosi's pet projects that depend on race, sex, ethnicity, status, disability, etc.
None of that is relevant to the pandemic that has taken up all of our media air time, and it shows no caring for the real problem, nor compassion for those who have fallen victim or could fall victim to it--all of America and beyond.
Title V of the bill, “Investing in a Sustainable Recovery,” has sections on “Improving Corporate Governance Through Diversity” and “Diverse Investment Advisers.” In fact, the bill dots every 'i' and crosses every 't' in its attempt to coerce companies to pigeonhole Americans along identity categories of corporate activity.
The legislation stipulates: “Any corporation that receives federal aid related to COVID-19 must maintain officials and budget dedicated to diversity and inclusion for no less than 5 years after disbursement of funds” [my italics].
This is how the left operates. It doesn't matter the qualifications of individuals, only their identities, especially in levels of their so-called victimhood.
The bill continues thus: "The oversight panel set up to distribute the funds “shall collect diversity data from any corporation that receives Federal aid related to COVID-19 and issue a report that will be made publicly available no later than one year after the disbursement of funds."
That report must include:
the gender, race and ethnic identity (and to the extent possible results disaggregated by ethnic group) as otherwise known or provided voluntarily, for the total number of employees (full and part-time) and the career level of employees (executive and managers versus employees in other roles). … The number and dollar value invested with minority- and women-owned suppliers (and to the extent possible results disaggregated by ethnic group) including professional services (legal and consulting) and asset managers, and deposits and other accounts with minority depository institutions, as compared to all vendors investments.
What in the world does this have to do with supplying needed relief to the country?
Pelosi’s legislation would require companies to supply a comparison of pay among sexes and racial and ethnic minorities. They would have to equally hand over to the government demographic data on their corporate boards, the “reporting structure of lead diversity officials,” and the size of the budget and staff of offices dedicated to “diversity and inclusion.”
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| Note the "big, beautiful wall" |
The bill goes on a diversity binge ordering the Security and Exchange Commission (SEC) to create a Diversity and Advisory Group made up of [leftist] college professors, deep state government bureaucrats, and members of the private sector to do a study that would propose strategies to "increase gender, racial and ethnic diversity" on corporate boards.
Some of the other ridiculous things Pelosi included in the bill were:
$33,200,000 for the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Association for global warming research
$100,000,000 for NASA
$100,000,000 for construction and environmental compliance
$278,000,000 for the Internal Revenue Service
$35,000,000 for the JFK Performing Arts Center
$90,000,000 for an HIV program
$36,000,000 for the National Center for Translational Sciences
$7,000,000 for a specific charter school
$23,000,000 for Howard University and they have an endowment already of $647,000,000
$300,000,000 for the Corporation of Public Broadcasting
$500,000,000 for the Institute of Museum and Library Services
$1,000,000 for the Sergeant at Arm and Doorkeeper of the Senate
$300,000,000 for migration and refugee assistance
Yes, we need to take this woman who lives in a gated mansion seriously.
Rahm Emanuel made it clear in 2008 after becoming Obama's chief of staff and later the failed Mayor of Chicago, that the moments of greatest urgency and fear create opportunities to do things totally unrelated to the crisis at hand, even if fellow citizens have to suffer a little longer.
And as the staunch Joe Biden for President supporter and House Majority Whip James Clyburn (D-SC) told his fellow lawmakers on a conference call last week,
according to The Hill newspaper: “This is a tremendous opportunity to restructure things to fit our vision.”
Holy crap, bat-eaters!
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