HERE IT COMES – AT 8:18 A.M. ET:  This was inevitable – government by quota.  Coming soon to some institution near you.  From Fox: 

One of the U.S. Senate's newest members is proposing to shake up the chamber by mandating "diversity" quotas for everything from staffs to committees.

A proposal by Nevada’s freshman Democratic senator, Catherine Cortez Masto, could mimic efforts in corporate America. Large companies across the country, particularly those in Silicon Valley, have been under intense pressure to hire more minorities.

Cortez Masto thinks it should be a Congressional priority, too.

“We should be mandating diversity in our committees, mandating diversity in our hiring practices, mandating diversity throughout the United States Senate,” Cortez Masto told the podcast Women Rule. “You just have to walk in the room and look at the Senators that are there — the 100 Senators, right? You could see the lack of diversity.”

The senator said all members of Congress should make diversity a priority in hiring practices – whether it is staff members they are hiring for their office or staffers on Congressional committees.

COMMENT:  Whatever happened to the concept of hiring by qualifications, by ability, by talent?  Well, I guess it's a very old-fashioned idea.  Senator Masto's proposal will eventually be accepted, and the result will be the equality of mediocrity.

Of course we should try to be inclusive.  But I don't want critical government functions run by people selected by a quota system.  It's madness.  In the end, it's fatal.

May 12, 2017