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Robert Reich: Keep stimulus money away from skilled workers and “white male contractors”
michellemalkin ^ | 1/22/09 | michellemalkin

Posted on 01/22/2009 7:13:19 PM PST by Sammy67

I missed Clintonite moldy oldie-turned-Obama economic adviser Robert Reich’s testimony a few weeks ago on how the government should spend federal stimulus money. The Berkeley professor engaged in academic fantasy land talk about getting all the cash out to workers as quickly as possible — a pipe dream debunked by the CBO report I mentioned in my column yesterday.

Even more noteworthy, however, were the comments Reich made about which workers deserve the stimulus bucks most. Reich’s proposal exposes the lie that the Obama administration is actually interested in revitalizing basic infrastructure for the good of the economy. No, what Team Obama really wants is to ensure that the least skilled, least qualified workers get jobs based on their chromosomes and pigment.

Reich wrote on his blog:

The stimulus plan will create jobs repairing and upgrading the nation’s roads, bridges, ports, levees, water and sewage system, public-transit systems, electricity grid, and schools. And it will kick-start alternative, non-fossil based sources of energy (wind, solar, geothermal, and so on); new health-care information systems; and universal broadband Internet access.

It’s a two-fer: lots of new jobs, and investments in the nation’s future productivity.

But if there aren’t enough skilled professionals to do the jobs involving new technologies, the stimulus will just increase the wages of the professionals who already have the right skills rather than generate many new jobs in these fields. And if construction jobs go mainly to white males who already dominate the

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To: Sammy67
Has this been altered or is he really this short?


21 posted on 01/22/2009 7:28:21 PM PST by Lizavetta
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To: Sammy67

The new regime’s first candidate for piking!

Screw the tar and feathers - Heads On Pikes!


22 posted on 01/22/2009 7:28:27 PM PST by headsonpikes (Genocide is the highest sacrament of socialism.)
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To: Sammy67

These people still have a 1960’s mindset. And they’re the “hope” and “change” for the future?


23 posted on 01/22/2009 7:28:34 PM PST by Tired of Taxes (Dad, I will always think of you.)
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To: Slump Tester
Makes sense. Imagine a bridge, an electric grid or a school built by the least experienced and qualified. The new face of America.
24 posted on 01/22/2009 7:29:52 PM PST by ArmyTeach (You have a Republic, Madam, if you can keep it...)
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To: madison10
What a horrible thing to say! Wonder how all those union white males who voted for Obama feel about now.

They are incapable of thought, therefore they believe it is a lie.

25 posted on 01/22/2009 7:30:00 PM PST by elkfersupper (Member of the Original Defiant Class)
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To: Sammy67

Oh. how I am laughing at my old union buddies in the AFL-CIO who voted as their union reps told them.


26 posted on 01/22/2009 7:30:14 PM PST by Ciexyz (Downloaded Ann Coulter's "Guilty" to my Amazon Kindle for $9.99 - 67% discount.No sales tax.)
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To: Sammy67

Classist-Racist hatred from “Intelligentsia”.

What a surprise! /s


27 posted on 01/22/2009 7:30:28 PM PST by 230FMJ (...from my cold, dead, fingers.)
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To: Sammy67

So the Racist Reich wants only the least skilled, least qualified workers to repair and build our nations roads, bridges, sewage systems, levees, etc. Typical liberal mental disorder manifestation.


28 posted on 01/22/2009 7:32:31 PM PST by Mr. Mojo
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To: madison10

They say what they’ve said all along, right up until they are standing in the soup line. “Oh, he don’t mean it”.


29 posted on 01/22/2009 7:34:13 PM PST by autumnraine
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To: Sammy67
One of the comments at Reich's blog:

As another nudge in the right direction, I think the contractors should be required, along with their employees, to have a group hug at the beginning of every work day.

30 posted on 01/22/2009 7:35:06 PM PST by HoosierHawk
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To: madison10

What a horrible thing to say! Wonder how all those union white males who voted for Obama feel about now.


I’m not sure those people even pay attention. They just take their orders from the union, that’s the sad truth.


31 posted on 01/22/2009 7:35:15 PM PST by CommieCutter (http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/programs/ht/qt/3013_08.html)
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To: freekitty
Really stupid man. Should be charged with racism and prosecuted.

Government sponsored racism has been occurring for some years now.

Imagine being a white guy looking for job, and the first thing you see on a job ad is, "Minorities and women encouraged to apply".

In other words, "male whites" need not apply.

Outrageous does not begin to describe what has been happening for years now.

32 posted on 01/22/2009 7:35:31 PM PST by dragnet2 (Bush's legacy is Obama)
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To: Sammy67

IIRC, Reich didn’t stick around long in the Clinton administration.


33 posted on 01/22/2009 7:36:25 PM PST by dr_who
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To: durasell

Yeah, my friend was praising Obama for that today. I said, that’s nice, they won’t get a raise for a job they got hired onto 3 days ago. I would hope they wouldn’t be looking for a raise anytime soon anyway. You don’t really think this is a permanent thing, do you? So why would it matter? “We are freezing the salaries until the next cost of living is due. Then we’ll freeze it again. Time to reign in government...”

People just don’t follow through with thoughts anymore. They are like trained little mice to go through the maze for their cheese and that’s it. Stop lesson. Got the cheese, finished for the day.

I’m trying to get out of my funk of realizing this administration is what I feared and worse because people aren’t seeing it.


34 posted on 01/22/2009 7:37:04 PM PST by autumnraine
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To: Sammy67

Just what we all want inexperinced construction workers building new bridges all over the country! *scarsam* I can’t believe that he said that on camera the man is an idiot.


35 posted on 01/22/2009 7:37:22 PM PST by chris_bdba
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To: bootless
Good comparison. (I had to google Harrison Bergeron though)

Here it is for other folks who aren't familiar with it either.

36 posted on 01/22/2009 7:37:41 PM PST by Slump Tester (What if I'm pregnant Teddy? Errr-ahh -Calm down Mary Jo, we'll cross that bridge when we come to it)
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To: Mr. Mojo

Reich is very small, physically and mentally.

Re Mojo’s comments on unskilled workers building things - we will have no safe highways, bridges that collapse, sewage systems that don’t work and back up right into your house, levees that break, and buildings that will fall down.

And those are just the good things that will happen if we follow Reich’s advise. Remember, he was a Secretary of Labor or the Treasury under Clinton. Does that explain things?


37 posted on 01/22/2009 7:37:57 PM PST by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: Sammy67
Around here (Houston area) the skilled workers and contractors are not white..

Thanks to the GOP Jorge Booosh and Senior Perry!
Welcome to Norte Mexico!
Sam Houston, Travis, Austin, Crockett et al must be spinning like tops in their graves.

38 posted on 01/22/2009 7:38:21 PM PST by DirtyHarryY2K ("yes we can" Not at my expense!)
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To: cripplecreek

Just let them keep insulting white people. It started on day one with a “prayer” and has continued everyday.Pretty soon, most whites will be offended and maybe realize what they have put into office. Whites are being blamed for everything now-it just can’t last.


39 posted on 01/22/2009 7:38:32 PM PST by dandiegirl
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To: Revolting cat!
The street people have been doing his job, for oh about 15-20 years now. Berkeley is an open sewer.
40 posted on 01/22/2009 7:39:42 PM PST by JasonC
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