Comments on Advance Indiana™: Amos Brown Seeking Answers On Indy's MBE Contracts

When I tell people that Keystone is an MBE firm, t...

2012-08-26T15:48:14.147-05:00

When I tell people that Keystone is an MBE firm, they first look at me weird, then they start to appreciate why I've always claimed that MBE/WBE is such a fraud. I always tell people that Erzel is claiming Asian or maybe it is just anther of the many ongoing frauds. Either way it is ridiculous.

And affirmative action in general is designed to simultaneously being patronizing (as liberals like to be) and pointless, as they the vast majority help those who don't need the help. For example, just from a lifetime of observation (it would be interesting to see some stats), those helped most by college admission preferences are the already advantaged black students from two-parent families (think those living in Fishers, Carmel and the outer townships, not the IPS kids of single-parents.

I also see plenty of women become the head of the certain companies (and in some cases they appear to actually be an active participant) only because they would be stupid not to do so because of the WBE designation.

Can you say fast three times.....Good Ole Boys, Go...

2012-08-26T15:15:21.888-05:00

Can you say fast three times.....Good Ole Boys, Good Ole Boys, Good Ole Boys?

Amos needs to look at the MBE requirement for Good Ole Boys and he will see where the contracts go.

Welcome to the Indiana sham...nothing new on the state level either.

"... further proof of how nonsensical MBE cla...

2012-08-26T14:09:48.071-05:00

"... further proof of how nonsensical MBE classification has become..."
That is EXACTLY correct! WHY does a certain percentage of contracts HAVE to be awarded to MBE's?
Is that more "entitlements" that were "found" in the Constitution? Why doesn't each company just BID what they can do, and let the job to to the winning bidder.
All of this POLITICAL CORRECTNESS crap is KILLING this country.
My wife owns her own company. It is a "100% female-owned company. But we CERTAINLY do not feel we are "ENTITLED" to any special consideration because of that.
We want to be selected because of the QUALITY of WORK we do, NOT WHO or WHAT we are.

This is an example where we should already have th...

2012-08-26T07:47:00.276-05:00

This is an example where we should already have the info via the self-proclaimed 'watchdog' of the failing Indianapolis Star. Won't hold my breath.