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re: NYC announces $2.3B grant for airport that explicitly outlaws white male businesses
Posted on 5/7/24 at 8:10 pm to Wally Sparks
Posted on 5/7/24 at 8:10 pm to Wally Sparks
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Press Release
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Governor Kathy Hochul today announced a historic milestone in the ongoing transformation of JFK International Airport, where a record $2.3 billion in contracts have been awarded to Minority and Women-Owned Business Enterprises (MWBE). This is the largest participation of MWBE firms on any public-private partnership project in New York State history. With construction of new airport facilities fully underway, MWBE participation at JFK will continue to break records until the redevelopment is substantially complete expected in 2028. JFK redevelopment also demonstrates a significant focus on working with local contractors, awarding more than $950 million in contracts to Queens-based businesses to date.
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As the $19 billion JFK project moves forward, additional contracts with MWBE firms will be awarded to meet with the Port Authority’s goal of 30 percent MWBE participation for the agency’s capital projects
If you want to criticize programs like MWBE, fine. But the Subject of the thread is clickbait. Basically the $19B contract has a 30% requirement, and they hit $2.3B so far, and they still have $3.4B left to go.
Even the most conservative states in the US have programs like this for government projects.
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Posted on 5/7/24 at 8:16 pm to Demshoes
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facial discrimination
Tried it.
Wife didn’t buy it.
Posted on 5/7/24 at 8:16 pm to tiggerthetooth
Content of the presser aside... That's an embarrassing PC. She shouldn't be in front of a microphone ( much less in "zoom or what ever" " working out billion dollar deals).
Posted on 5/7/24 at 8:16 pm to tiggerthetooth
Sounds like this will be ripe for a federal discrimination lawsuit. Who wants to go file to open a biz in there with me?
Posted on 5/7/24 at 8:19 pm to LegendInMyMind
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Who shall file the first lawsuit?
I’m thinking about it.
This post was edited on 5/7/24 at 8:19 pm
Posted on 5/7/24 at 8:20 pm to biglego
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At what point will white Democrats finally admit the left hates white males?
White Dem here. Just about there. Don’t want to make this political at all but Rs would be competing for my vote had they nominated someone else. Again, don’t feel like going into my reasons or political debating any of that. Just stating where I am and I know for a fact many others too.
Posted on 5/7/24 at 8:20 pm to OvertheDwayneBowe
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Even the most conservative states in the US have programs like this for government projects.
It’s racist and a travesty
Posted on 5/7/24 at 8:23 pm to FutureCorridor49
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Don’t want to make this political at all but Rs would be competing for my vote had they nominated someone else.
I can understand not voting for the GOP. I cannot understand voting for the Dem. And I voted for Al Gore.
Posted on 5/7/24 at 8:32 pm to OvertheDwayneBowe
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Even the most conservative states in the US have programs like this for government projects.
No wonder govt projects suck. Govts shouldn’t have these requirements.
Anyway this is the same Governor who recently said - “Right now we have young Black kids growing up in the Bronx who don’t even know what the word ‘computer’ is,".
https://www.theblaze.com/news/hochul-black-kids-computers-regret
Posted on 5/7/24 at 8:41 pm to tiggerthetooth
Racist and kleptocratic at the same time.
Posted on 5/7/24 at 8:44 pm to Clark14
quote:Don't be surprised when it's true.
Considering the source, I’ll wait to hear all the facts before making a judgement.
I've bidded on and won tens of millions of dollars in federal government contracts, it's extremely common and expected for there to be "set-asides" for women, minority, veteran, HUBZone, etc.
The work around for this, because the government, and democrats, are stupid, backward thinking sons a bitches, is to create a new company with a woman, black, Mexican etc. person as, "the owner" and give them a cut. It's done by thousands of small business contractors, and when you get so big to where your gross receipts disqualify you for small business contracts, you open another one.
The only one that was impossible to do that with was HUBZone certified contactor. If you live in a HUBZone, you're crazy to not open up a business of whatever kind and immediately start bidding on contracts and getting offered set-aside contracts unsolicited.
You have no idea how bloated and discriminatory the federal government is until you wade into the waters of federal contracting.
Posted on 5/7/24 at 9:01 pm to tiggerthetooth
If that’s taxpayer dollars they better think again.
Posted on 5/7/24 at 9:11 pm to tiggerthetooth
It will never even get started.
Posted on 5/7/24 at 9:17 pm to OvertheDwayneBowe
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If you want to criticize programs like MWBE, fine. But the Subject of the thread is clickbait. Basically the $19B contract has a 30% requirement, and they hit $2.3B so far, and they still have $3.4B left to go.
If OP owned a set of balls, he would come here and admit that a) the tweet was misleading, and b) he didn’t verify his claim before posting.
Of course that won’t happen. And the rest of the tards here are going to ignore these facts as well. Just read the replies from the crayon eaters.
Posted on 5/7/24 at 9:21 pm to tiggerthetooth
There are tons of minority, female or vet only contracts awarded annually by the Federal government that cost tax payers at least 15% more than they should.
Posted on 5/7/24 at 9:22 pm to Darth_Vader
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I wish I could invent a Time Machine and go back to warn our forefathers what was to come and what actions to take to avoid it.
“Guys, I know you’re gonna be confused and not believe me, but for the sake of the future of our country…pick your own cotton”
Posted on 5/7/24 at 9:27 pm to tiggerthetooth
And the White folks just stand there smiling as they are stripping away their own rights....
pathetic
pathetic
Posted on 5/7/24 at 9:30 pm to FutureCorridor49
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at all but Rs would be competing for my vote had they nominated someone else.
Yet, you can't name a single issue you disagree with him on. Just the emotional "Mean tweets!" stuff that MSNBC and HuffPo have convinced you that you should be upset about. Quit voting like an 8th grade girl voting for student council.
Posted on 5/7/24 at 9:31 pm to Klark Kent
Imagine being a White liberal male who just votes Democrat. This is the true definition of insane.
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