Posted on 06/11/2010 7:15:41 AM PDT by jmaroneps37
You can’t make this kind of stuff up. The collapse of Detroit as an actually functioning government is picking up speed. Concerned by the number of Detroiters who have trouble dealing with the job application question “Have you ever been convicted of a felony?” the Motor City’s Council is moving a bill through the adoption process which will remove the question from city job applications.
The bill to be introduced within weeks by Council members Ken Cockrel and Kwame Kenyatta will provide felons with the opportunity to compete for job placement with Detroit on an equal footing with law abiding citizens (or non citizens perhaps).
Euphemistically called the “Ban the Box ordinance”, the Council’s Research and Analysis Division lawyers foresee a time when it could be used to “persuade” those doing business with the city to use the same policy in their hiring.
Consider that for a moment: Detroit a nest of criminals masquerading as a functioning American city will be hiring felons because most of their applicants are felons and intends to eventually blackmail the vendors they do business with into hiring criminals as well.
Where Democrats rule felons benefit
The city governments that hire felons who avoid “the question” are without fail run by Democrats. Some of them are Kalamazoo, Battle Creek, Baltimore, Boston, Chicago, Minneapolis, San Francisco and Seattle. The states pulling this stunt are: New York, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Hawaii, Minnesota and New Mexico.
In a city whose mayor regularly sets its unemployment rate at or near 50% what is wrong with this bill is summed up by a representative of Goodwill Industries who commented, “We need to give them an opportunity to succeed.”
These people were convicted of at least one serious crime so they were put in prison to keep them away from the rest..
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Like most large cities, I’m sure you have to reside inside city limits in order to be employed there. And if you remove all Detroit city residents who have felony convictions from applying, the candidate pool gets very small indeed.
You can't make stuff like this up.
Leni
I don’t think that this will change much of anything, Detroit city government employees are all criminals already, they’re just looking forward to their convictions.
Good. Keep em’ in Detroit.
This reminds me of a company I once worked for.
When I was hired, I had to take a drug test. First person ever in the company history.
I’ve never used so I found it ironic when I started that everyone else - including the owner and senior management - were regular pot users. Some were even smoking on company time in small groups.
Sometimes I wonder if I was hired in spite of being clean. I was apparently the last to have to take the test too.
I left there after about a year - one of the most dysfunctional places I ever worked.
In other words, Detroit government employers will henceforth require only a rap sheet instead of a resume be presented in order to qualify for a job.
Leni
Lots of “felonies” shouldn’t be felonies. Possessing an expended can of CS gas in Michigan (which used to be perfectly legal) is now charged as a felony.
Not saying the proposed bill is a good thing, but just making that one point.
I didn’t know you worked for ACORN ;)
“Lots of “felonies” shouldn’t be felonies.”
You are correct. It’s a lot easier these days to be a felon than 50 years ago. (no I’m not one)
Seems to me that's a distinction without a difference.
For the same reason, not all felons should have their right to bear arms and right to vote removed. On second thought, I'll go a step farther than that. No felon who has been released should have those rights permanently removed.
If they are still "unworthy" of those rights, they should stay in jail.
TRANSLATION: The amateur criminals will now be working for the true, government PROFESSIONALS!!
Cheers!
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