Hasidic Jews qualify for 8a minority set aside contracting. If they bid on the contract, the government is forced to give it to them. When Robert was complaining about the incompetence of the Bush Administration he was really complaining about the ability of civil servants (overwhelmingly Democratic voters) to run a minority contracting program that Senator Obama wants to expand.

I do not find it surprising that liberal apologist would skip over the 8a and the Jewish part of the stories to bash the Bush administration. If the government cannot manage ammunition purposes because minority set asides are more important than performance, think what is going to happen when the government is running healthcare.

We are so consumed by picking apart what Hillary said and what the pundits say that important reports like this hardly register. I guess this is how the revered market forces determine what's important and what's not.

I wonder if we're getting the news we deserve or if we've been brainwashed into
accepting that the importance the media place on a report relfects a true value judgment about importance.