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Unrelated to this specific plant, but it doesn't help that the government put all kinds of stipulations and pork into the CHIPS act that requires certain demographics of people hired, investments in unrelated things, etc. https://thehill.com/opinion/4517470-dei-killed-the-chips-act...

If we want to get serious about ramping up domestically produced chips for critical applications, we need to cut that crap out and focus on efficiency and quality.

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I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but unless your criteria for efficiency and quality is bringing back slavery then we're not going to compete. The DEI requirements are a cherry on top of a pie-in-the-sky request that wouldn't meet it's goal with any demographics staffing it.

If we want to get serious about ramping up domestically produced chips, the state has to do it itself. People piss and moan about Intel but it's not like Northrop Grumman could do their job any better. The best way for the US government to realize the scale of their requests is to fix the problem internally, instead of pitching it as a bidding war for Goofus and Gallant.

I simply don’t understand how these types of diversity initiatives are legal. They are explicitly discriminatory and violate the fundamental principles underlying laws. And I agree with you that placing these social justice restrictions on a critical element of national security is incredibly irresponsible.

why is this voted down? isn't it legitimately part of the story? gov't waste is gov't waste.

What about agriculture subsidies? Lots of earmarks pork and other things thrown into that bucket of money.

The downvotes are probably because of the framing of DEI as “pork”. You are surprised people disagree about what qualifies as government waste? I find that surprising :)

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