Sworn in on 2 June 1965, and with one month to start the historic civil rights law enforcement agency from scratch, Roosevelt excused himself for a week of yachting. Two months later, “when Congress was considering the next fiscal year’s budget for the EEOC, Roosevelt was off sailing again,”
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Thirty days before Enforcement Day, the EEOC had no leadership, no staff, and no office. The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights has stated that “[o]n the date Title VII became effective, EEOC had only a skeletal organization and staff and no operational procedures.”
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EEOC’s budget for fiscal year 1966 was $2.75 million; negotiated while EEOC chairman Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr. was off (not golfing) yachting (putting EEOC below the Office of Coal Research
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Obama Promises Change For America
“On Nov. 4, we must stand up and say: Eight is enough.”
— U.S. Senator Barack Obama, DNC
August 28, 2008
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From 2001 to 2008,
EEOC lost 25% of its workforce and 271 front line investigators
— Gabrielle Martin, President of the National Council of EEOC Locals
November 19, 2009
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Barack Obama and Joe Biden will fully fund and increase staffing for EEOC
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EEOC case dumping scandal (1965 — T imGolden)
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U.S. Department of Justice,
Fact: 50 million more Americans are working in 2016 than in 1982
Fact: In 1982, U.S. population was 231 million
Fact: in 2016, U.S. population was 322 million
Fact: in 1982, Congress approved EEOC staffing for 3,700
Fact: In 2016, Congress approved EEOC staffing for 2,250 ?
Fact: EEOC receives 100,000 complainTs/yr
Fact: EEOC employs only 666 investigators
Fact: 666 EEOC investigators can’t investigate “in good faith”
100,000 complainTs/yr
Q: how many investigators would it take to investigate “in good faith”
100,000 complainTs/yr?
A: 50 states * 100 investigators/state = 5000 EEOC investigators (duh!)
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Trust but Verify
p.p.s.
page 30 Chart 2 666 EEOC investigators assigned
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FRAUD! FRAUD! FRAUD! on y’all [President(s) + OMB + Congress]
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y’all [President(s) + OMB + Congress] better start righting before G-D says, “spirits! put your man (pencils) down!”
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