Affirmative Action and Discrimination

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Should disabled veterans get preferential treatment over better-qualified candidates who are not disable veterans?
Most state departments and agencies in the us federal government are obligated to have an affirmative action program for recruitment, employment, staffing and advancement to veteran disabled persons (Reynolds & Nicholas, 2013).The law dictates that agencies provide an annual disabled veteran affirmative action plan (DVAAP) each year to OPM. The report should vividly outline the company’s efforts of promoting the welfare of disabled veterans through job advancement opportunities and maximum employment. Both veterans of the Vietnam War era and post-Vietnam that qualify for such vacancies must be considered so as comply with the requirement of an up-to-date DVAAP plan. Essentially, the function of OPM is generally is to provide guidance to state agencies and departments to formulate their DVAAP plans as mandated by title 5 of the federal regulation code (Reynolds & Nicholas, 2013). OPM further goes ahead on submits a report to the congress annually regarding the employment of veterans in the state. However, despite the massive backing by state laws, advancing and recruitment of veterans is vastly questioned by elites and big sharks in corporate America.
This debate has being raging for years without any amicable resolution expected any soon. The major ethical issues in the discussion is whether these special treatment of vets by the state is adding any value to the economy or it’s just a scheme of rewarding laziness in the name of patriotism by the government of the day. Another bone of contention is the fact that these veterans are preferential treated in the expense of able qualified candidates who are not disabled. A good number of youthful and able American citizen who deserve these position equally are unemployed and lavishing in the streets tarmarking for jobs from office to office ever day without a shade of hope.
There still very many people in the world especially in the U.S.A who don’t understand/ approve the rationale of giving preferential treatment to veterans of war in the expense of a better candidate with no disability. Most of all what they seem not to understand is that the state has laid done a criterion to determine the qualification veterans with some percentage of disability, to other applicants who maybe fresh from campus/college. What the law is trying to echo the world is that veterans have already made a mark in history by deciding to defend their country in difficult times. This fact automatically adds some point to the veterans C.V over some individual who just choose college. However, it also depends specifically on the job qualification requirements. Additionally, m...