Posted on 02/05/2009 8:27:15 AM PST by EricTheRed_VocalMinority
From today’s American Spectator:
Isn't It Reich?
By Ralph R. Reiland on 2.5.09 @ 6:06AM
The biodegradable celebratory balloons at the parties marking the election of the nation’s first black (or half-black) president weren’t even half-deflated before Robert Reich, economic adviser to Barack Obama, took a direct shot at white males and their allegedly overprivileged and overly snug and comfy position in the America economy.
More specifically, Reich took aim at “white male construction workers,” warning that they might be positioned to be on the receiving end of a disproportionate share of the government’s stimulus package and the ensuing jobs.
“I am concerned, as I’m sure many of you are, that these jobs not simply go to high-skilled people who are already professional or to white male construction workers,” said Reich, labor secretary under Bill Clinton and currently a public policy professor at the University of California at Berkeley. [Oh, Berkeley. There's a surprise!]
Saying he has “nothing against white male construction workers,” Reich warned that “if construction jobs go mainly to white males who already dominate the construction trades, many people who need jobs the most—women, minorities and the poor—will be shut out.” [...]
Sounds like Mr. Reich has been taking lessons from President Golden Calf, who famously told Joe “The Plumber” Wurzelbacher “It’s not that I want to punish your success, …”
In both cases, both men are full of crap:
Barack Obama clearly does want to punish the success of Americans like Joe Wurzelbacher. His entire platform is based on punishing the success of productive Americans.
Similarly, Robert Reich has everything against white male construction workers. His entire political existence is based on getting back at Whitey. (Himself excepted; isn’t that always interesting!?)
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I JUST HEARD THAT OBAMA IS GOING TO IMPOSE A 40% TAX ON ASPIRIN BECAUSE IT IS WHITE AND IT WORKS.
IrishMike - ROTFLMAO! Adding that to my blog post.
He’s always been a very little man, and I’m not talking about his vertical challenged body here folks.
IrishMike - ROTFLMAO! Adding that to my blog post.
I think it’s a reaction against the abuse he received in high school for being so short. Either that or he overdosed on Lucky Charms and is now full-on nuts.
I have heard nothing about these construction jobs being reserved for U.S. citizens and legal residents. Therefore, I don’t know what Reich is complaining about. These jobs will likely be filled by illegal aliens.
liberals do *not* understand the concept of the individual.
““if construction jobs go mainly to white males who already dominate the construction trades, many people who need jobs the most—women, minorities and the poor—will be shut out.””
Jobs go to individuals not groups and I seriously doubt Joe the unemployed white construction worker needs a job any less than john the unemployed black construction worker..
Brilliant, utterly brilliant.
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