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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

Hey Michigan workers, Hope this was what you wanted when you voted for Hussein. Now live with it you unemployed fools.


41 posted on 01/22/2009 7:39:59 PM PST by We Dare Defend Our Rights
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To: Sammy67
more US white male hating from DORF reich...
42 posted on 01/22/2009 7:46:01 PM PST by Chode (American Hedonist -)
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To: Sammy67

Remember when liberals told us that racism was wrong, and we were naieve enough to agree with them? All that they said about no preferences, etc, it was all just a ploy to turn the tables on us.


43 posted on 01/22/2009 7:46:43 PM PST by Hacklehead (Liberalism is the art of taking what works, breaking it, and then blaming conservatives.)
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To: dandiegirl
Whites are being blamed for everything now-it just can’t last.

Oh yes it can, you ain't seen nothing yet. Obama's MARXISM is just starting in AmeriKa.

44 posted on 01/22/2009 7:46:44 PM PST by BILL_C (ANSWER Palin is unqualified with SO IS OBAMA, but Gov.Palin is all American, and is NOT A MARXIST!)
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To: Sammy67
And 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 and long-term unemployed — will be shut out.

Why you genetic garbage malformed racist throwback freak. No such thing as an out of work white male huh? Let’s all just not mention the construction industry is nearly 100% illegal aliens wetbacks and a white man cant get an ordinary job in construction anyway. Forget the FACT that about one third of the money paid to those wetbacks is nothing other than welfare to mexico.

What a sorry excuse of a human being. Racist s&itbag.

45 posted on 01/22/2009 7:47:39 PM PST by TLI ( ITINERIS IMPENDEO VALHALLA)
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To: Sammy67

The more I think about this, the more infuriated I get.

The ONE thing alot of people in my area were saying was “Well, I hate he got in, but at least with this road building project, we’ll get some work”. That was the lone concilation to alot of men around here.

Too bad they are going to be SOL because they are the wrong damn color.

At some point, someone has to fight back. I’m telling you, I’m going to turn into a Conservative Hippy (with baths) and protest this whole system.


46 posted on 01/22/2009 7:48:05 PM PST by autumnraine
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To: Hacklehead
Remember when liberals told us that racism was wrong, and we were naieve enough to agree with them? All that they said about no preferences, etc,

This crap was going on long before Obama and his conga line of Communist took over.

This crap was going on right under Bush, and a Republican majority.

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.

47 posted on 01/22/2009 7:49:14 PM PST by dragnet2 (Bush's legacy is Obama)
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To: dragnet2

Yea no kidding!
As a purchasing manager, I got a call from a potential vendor.
She offered proudly that she represented a, “women owned business”. I inquired, exactly what does that offer to my business? So tired of un-equality being portrayed as the new “equal”. We have entered the realm of true idiocy.
I fear for the republic.


48 posted on 01/22/2009 7:50:47 PM PST by 9422WMR (When seconds count, the cops are only minutes away.)
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To: Sammy67
At the risk of sounding racist, does anybody actually thing that a bunch of homeys on welfare are gonna put out dey blunts, turn off da X-box, and get dey asses offa da couch to go work construction. Maaan, no way!

Seriously, a girl from the hood in East Chicago lived with us for a year. She'd say the same thing. She'd laugh her a$$ off at the very idea.

49 posted on 01/22/2009 7:51:20 PM PST by Tidbit
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To: Sammy67

these guys really are trying to provoke a situation that will validate their latent, and recently, not-so-latent racism...


50 posted on 01/22/2009 7:54:38 PM PST by mo
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To: Tidbit

Become an expert in something they can’t do.


51 posted on 01/22/2009 7:57:45 PM PST by bicyclerepair (Thank you Mr. Robinson for FR. from: Ft. Lauderdale Florida)
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To: Sammy67
I’d suggest that all contracts entered into with stimulus funds require contractors to provide at least 20 percent of jobs to the long-term unemployed and to people with incomes at or below 200 percent of the federal poverty level.

If anyone has been long term unemployed in the economy of the last 16 years then they did not want a job or they were in prison.

For most of the last 16 years the unemployment rate has been less than 5 percent.

That put the country at basically full employment. Anyone who really wanted a job could find a job. You may have had to relocate but there were jobs for those who wanted them.

52 posted on 01/22/2009 8:00:44 PM PST by Pontiac (Your message here.)
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To: Sammy67
It's like a villain from Atlas Shrugged jumped out of the book and landed in our world. I expect to see a lot of that these next four years.
53 posted on 01/22/2009 8:01:00 PM PST by KarlInOhio (On 9/11 Israel mourned with us while the Palestinians danced in the streets. Who should we support?)
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To: Sammy67

Further evidence that you can’t trust a liberal.


54 posted on 01/22/2009 8:02:56 PM PST by popdonnelly (Don't lose sight of your conservative principles.)
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To: dragnet2

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

Consider this, if white men were so racist, unfair, power mad, intolerant and violent, how did all those women and minorities we were repressing, manage to take over the country? It certainly wasn’t through force. They used our sense of fairness and our ideals against us. Their only ideal is power.


55 posted on 01/22/2009 8:05:04 PM PST by Hacklehead (Liberalism is the art of taking what works, breaking it, and then blaming conservatives.)
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To: Tidbit
At the risk of sounding racist, does anybody actually thing that a bunch of homeys on welfare are gonna put out dey blunts, turn off da X-box, and get dey asses offa da couch to go work construction. Maaan, no way!

You need to get updated. They made it easy for them long ago. P>

This has been going on a long time, especially in government.

Ya see all those high rise government building in downtown areas all over the landscape? They're filled with these types of people and their girl friends and wives, that have all been hired by various governments and various government agencies...These people have been hired by the millions. (Minorities and women encourage to apply)

All all sitting on their asses all day, sharpening their finger nails, and demanding more pay raises. and these *millions* of government employees produce *nothing* and are all basically part of the machine to collect *your* money.

56 posted on 01/22/2009 8:07:14 PM PST by dragnet2 (Bush's legacy is Obama)
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To: Sammy67

bookmark


57 posted on 01/22/2009 8:07:50 PM PST by Reddy
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To: Farmer Dean

Forget the rope market, corner the lockbox market because that’s where every Republican Congressman’s balls are.


58 posted on 01/22/2009 8:18:03 PM PST by Ajnin
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To: Slump Tester

“I heard the a-hole on TV tonight. He’s against giving it to “Skilled Professionals” as well.”

I’m sure that will go down well with the 5,000 Microsoft employees that found out they’re getting canned in a couple of months!


59 posted on 01/22/2009 8:33:27 PM PST by Senormechanico
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To: Sammy67

I think political jobs should always go to tall people, and politicians should only listen to the advice of tall people. That way Reich can join the unemployment line.


60 posted on 01/22/2009 8:38:28 PM PST by TAdams8591 (Pray and work to see that FOCA fails!`)
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