White Male Construction Workers need not apply

[the point]

his voting base.


UOTE=CMKM-Miller;7124018]Sorry if this has been posted already but it's been talked about on the radio all afternoon where I live.

Links....

Michelle Malkin » Robert Reich: Keep stimulus money away from skilled workers and “white male contractors”

Breitbart.tv » Obama Economic Advisor Limits ‘White Male Construction Workers’ From Economic Stimulus Benefit

Reich: Stimulus Spending Shouldn't Only Help White Males | NewsBusters.org

Robert Reich is an economic advisor to President Obama. Is this some of the BS that is going to be pumped in the direction of the American public the next 4+ years? Racist policies like these are the last thing this country needs to get our country out of this recession. Not only that, but this is classic socialism - wealth redistribution. Best, most qualified for the job - end of story.[/quote]

[samyn on the green]

Originally Posted by Hoarfrost

That is a different thing, because it's certainly not analogous to what this guy said. You're omitting the operational word in order to distort his actual point. It's the most pathetic thing I ever did see.

My comment was completely valid and analogous. Was your comment doublespeak or doublethink?

[11thHour]

Originally Posted by Hoarfrost

"I am concerned, as I'm sure many of you are, that these jobs [hopefully being created by government spending] not simply go to high skilled people who are already professionals or to white male construction workers."

If this is really all he said, I'm pretty sure the title of this thread is a shameless distortion. As are many comments that followed.

I have no problem with the first part of the statement, but why did they include the last part? Why not say "....or white female construction workers" or "....or black male construction workers." What makes a white male construction worker worth singling out? Because they are white and male they don't qualify?

[Hoarfrost]

Originally Posted by samyn on the green

My comment was completely valid and analogous. Was your comment doublespeak or doublethink?

No it wasn't. In your comment, you say that you don't want Jewish bankers from New York to receive any amount of help. In Reich's, he states that he doesn't want all the help to go to white construction workers.

But you can play obtuse if you wish.

[Hoarfrost]

Originally Posted by 11thHour

I have no problem with the first part of the statement, but why did they include the last part? Why not say "....or white female construction workers" or "....or black male construction workers." What makes a white male construction worker worth singling out? Because they are white and male they don't qualify?

I suppose simply because they make up the bulk of construction workers.