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Thursday, January 22, 2009
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Obama adviser: Whitemales need not apply
Robert Reich tells House panel stimulus packageshould emphasize 'social return' over worker skill
Posted: January 22, 200912:17 pm EasternWorldNetDaily
A top economic adviser to President Obamahas told a congressional panel the billions of dollars in the proposed economic stimulus plan should be allocated with social issues inmind, to make sure the money doesn't go to just "white male construction workers" or thehighly skilled.Robert Reich, who served as labor secretary under President Clinton, was speaking to theHouse Steering and Policy Committee Jan. 7 about funding infrastructure projects acrossthe nation."It seems to me that infrastructure spending is a very important and good way of stimulating the economy. The challenge will be to do it quickly, to find projects that can be done that will have a high social return, that also can be done with the greatest speed possible," Reich said."I am concerned, as I'm sure many of you are, that these jobs not simply go to highskilled people who are already professionals or to white male construction workers," hesaid.
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Obama economic adviser Robert Reich
 
The hearing took place two weeks before Obama was inaugurated."I have nothing against white male construction workers," Reich said. "I'm just sayingthere are a lot of other people who have needs as well."There are ways in which the money can be, criteria can be set so the money does go toothers, the long term unemployed, minorities, women," he said.Rep. Charles Rangel, D-N.Y., appeared to agree, suggesting federal money be directed tospecific groups of people.The federal government, he said, must "remove the discretion" about where the funds go,or what projects would be involved, even to the point of eliminating any input fromgovernors or state legislatures.Reich agreed: "Governors ought to be, should be given a choice of signing on the bottomline or not."Then Rangel noted the "middle class" would be unlikely to create any opposition to fundsdirected to minorities."One thing that you can depend on, you don't have to be worried about what the middleclass is going to do. Things are so bad, they have to put food on their tables, get clothesfor their kids, get them in school," he said.
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 Commentator Michelle Malkin said Reich's statements expose "the lie that the Obamaadministration is actually interested in revitalizing basic infrastructure for the good of theeconomy.""No, what Team Obama really wants is to ensure that the least skilled, least qualifiedworkers get jobs based on their chromosomes and pigment," she said.Malkin cited Reich's own blog, where the Obama adviser wrote of the economic stimulus plan: "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 withincomes at or below200 percent of thefederal povertylevel."This, Malkin wrote,is "spoken like a true- blue wealthredistributor. The'needs' (read:demands) of  politically protectedminorities trump theneed for competently build roads and bridges."On his blog, Reich makes his case for, "The Stimulus: How to Create Jobs Without ThemAll Going to Skilled Professionals and White Male Construction Workers.""At least 2 percent of project funds should be allocated to such training. In addition,advantage should be taken of buildings trades apprenticeships -- which must be fullyavailable to women and minorities," he wrote.Race already has become an issue several times in the Obama administration. As WND reported, Democratic Party strategist Donna Brazileadmitted she swiped Obama's complimentary blanket from his inauguration ceremony and then joked it wasnot a criminal offense because, "We have a black president ... this was free."Outrage also eruptedover theinauguration benedictionby Rev. Joseph Lowery, the 87- year-old civil rights pioneer, for asking God to help mankind work for a day when "white
 
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