OK, whats the withholding of stimulus money for white male construction workers about.

Someone at work said something to me about it, but I hadn't heard. Something about Obamas economic advisor saying that stimulus money shouldn't go to skilled workers and he said white male construction workers in particular, but instead should go to women, or people out of a job for a long time, or minorities.

Any one got a link for this?

Jesus.

Whatever was said, I will predict with certainty that it WASN'T anything even remotely resembling that. I can't believe that race would have been mentioned *at all.*

:freak:

He said we need to make sure everybody is included. Maybe you ought to quit playing partisan games.

context that their is any problem, but perhaps he should be more careful in his wording in the future.

second, it was discussed somewhere here recently, and of course whatever the issue might be has been clearly distorted by all the talking monkeys.

The partners of hysteria and fear. One on my co-workers was quoting them to which I replied that they were both full of ######. He replied with the quote from Git-mo and terrorists coming to your house to kill my family......

And I can guess the sources.

In retribution for Joe the Plumber.

In fact, I heard that the top priority for the stimulus is going to be the production of gilded thrones for welfare queens.

I heard it. I did.

:eyes:

And yes, where do people come up with this stuff? Talk radio, no doubt.

Redstone

I swear those people need to take remedial reading and comprehension skills.

This was on Alan Colmes show last night. The quote had to do with the need to ensure that stimulus does not benefit ONLY white male construction workers.

This in the context of the frequent quotes by various people incl Obama that stimulus would go to roads'n'bridges. Roads'n'bridges construction workers tend to be..... drumroll please.... white males.

But no, nothing about excluding them. Only that they will not be the ONLY beneficiary.

I havn't reviewed his exact words. But the quote is supposedly from a blog he writes.

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http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/01/27/ED8Q15HVLG.DTL

stimulus package was creating jobs mainly for white male construction workers. Nothing for the working poor. The second version included some for the rest of us. Construction programs still receive a big share of the stimulus but the rw noise makers have turned it around to sound like it is anti white male construction worker. Or maybe it was Robert Reich. I read both of them.

It's so predictable that the point is inclusion and freepers turn it into exclusion.

but it's being taken completely out of context.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opxuUj6vFa4

Of course if you just know that whenever something comes out of a Republican's mouth, it is a lie, you will be right 99.999999999% of the time.

They said they need to make sure jobs are being created across the board, and not just construction workers. Nobody, nobody, nobody, said white construction workers shouldn't get jobs.

His initial post where he was asking for jobs BEYOND skilled workers and White Male Construction Workers.

http://robertreich.blogspot.com/2009/01/stimulus-how-to-create-jobs-without.html


What the RWers said he said (it will not surprise you to learn they are liars).

http://mediamatters.org/items/200901230015?f=h_latest


And Reich rebuttal
http://robertreich.blogspot.com/2009/01/open-letter-to-rush-limbaugh-sean.html
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Saturday, January 24, 2009
An Open Letter to Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, and Michelle Malkin

In a time like this, when tempers are riding high and many Americans are close to panic about their jobs and finances, you have a special responsibility to consider the accuracy of what you say and the consequences of inflammatory and erroneous statements. In the last few days, manifestly distorting my words and pulling them out of context, you have accused me of wanting to exclude white males from jobs generated by the stimulus package. Anyone who takes a moment to examine what I actually said and wrote knows this to be an absurd misrepresentation of my position (see this). My goal is and has always been to create as many opportunities for as wide a group as possible, and not exclude anyone from access. There is and has never been any ambiguity about this. The hate mail I have received since your broadcast suggests that the mischievous consequences of your demagoguery are potentially dangerous, in addition to being destructive of rational and constructive political discourse. I urge you to take responsibility for your words. Words and ideas have real world consequences, and you have demonstrated a cavalier disregard for both.