More Stupidity From The Obama Administration

From Fox News: Employers could be pressured to hire more workers with a criminal background under recent guidelines issued by the federal government.
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s guidelines warn businesses about rejecting minority applicants who have committed a crime and recommend they eliminate policies that “exclude people from employment based on a criminal record.”
The EEOC says civil rights laws already prohibit different treatment for job applicants who are of a different ethnic background but have identical criminal histories. The update was issued out of concern that employers might disproportionally exclude minorities from getting hired because more African Americans and Hispanics are getting arrested and going to prison, according to the guideline report.
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/02/23/new-fed-guidelines-spark-biz-concerns-about-using-background-check-applicants/#ixzz2LlHpBkuH
This is just plain stupidity and I wonder how, want and why small business owners stay in business.
As a business owner, why would you want to hire a person with a criminal record vs a person who has no record?  Further, if you have to hire a person with a record and they act violently on the job, guess who is to be sued?  Not the EEOC.