Obama Administration Job App Screens Out Financial Bailout Beneficiaries

Have you benefited from the government’s financial bailouts this year? If so, good luck getting a job in the Obama administration. Their job application questionnaire, in addition to making you disclose everything you’ve ever written on paper or the web, wants to know if you are associated in any way with firms who have benefited from government bailout funds—see below for Question 18 from the job application’s full questionnaire. Why is this relevant? Is it a good thing or a bad thing to have been associated with these firms? Does it mean you have first hand experience to offer toward helping solve the crisis or were you just a conspirator in the crisis?