I sure wish Secretary Buttigieg would concentrate on his duties as the Secretary of the Department of Transportation. Secretary Buttigieg has been criticized for not making an immediate visit to the eastern Ohio community of East Palestine since the Norfolk Southern train carrying a variety of toxic chemicals derailed, dumping the chemicals. This was followed by experts recommending that the chemicals be ignited to prevent further damage. The resulting fireball and mushroom cloud could be seen for miles.
While the Biden administration has taken heat for not responding rapidly with federal assistance to the town, the President made a quick trip to Ukraine to take the federal aid there. He was more interested in defending the Eastern border of Ukraine than his own Southern border. Meanwhile, his DOT Secretary had to take some “personal time” before he could make a site visit to East Palestine. He seems to think Equity is his first priority. What does Equity have to do with his job? He did graduate from Harvard and attended Oxford University on a Rhodes Scholarship. I appreciate that he served in uniform as a Naval intelligence officer, but that doesn’t mean he can manage anything, which, he apparently is unable to do regardless of the assignment, including serving as the mayor of a small town in Indiana. But he now has the job to serve as the Secretary of the Department of Transportation. He received this position, not due to his talents, but due to his ability to check the gay box on the Diversity employment application.
Under Mayor Pete’s watch, the Nation has suffered major delays in the supply chain, disruption of airline schedules and near misses, and now the major railroad derailment that has caused significant damage to a small community in Ohio. The people and the environment were placed in harm’s way by mismanagement, both public and private. Mayor Pete failed to show up in a timely fashion. It wasn’t on his Equity agenda.
According to its proponents, Equity is supposed to “ensure the fair treatment, access, equality of opportunity and advancement for everyone while also attempting to identify and remove the barriers that have prevented some groups from fully participating.” But they really don’t mean equality of opportunity. They mean equality of outcome. They say that “Equity promotes justice, fairness and impartiality within the processes, procedures and in the distribution of resources by systems or institutions.” This is nonsense. Equity is the touted goal of Socialism and/or Communism. It is the opposite of Self-Governance and Meritocracy, the real foundational principles of America. We the People means just that. Government is supposed to serve its citizens.
It is hard to determine whether Mayor Pete’s boss or Mayor Pete himself is the biggest failure. But they are both failures because they are promoting objectives and ideologies contrary to American values. They should both resign.
Perfect picture for the incompetent Secretary. . .and good for his education and military service, but what qualifies him for transportation management of the United States? All secretaries of any department need to be vetted for their expertise in that field -- and stop the political payback and "equity" appointments. We don't want to fly in a commercial airplane if the pilot was an equity hire, rather than an experienced, competent pilot.