Video: No stimulus money for white males
posted at 8:58 am on January 22, 2009 by Ed Morrissey
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Wasn’t this supposed the era of post-racialism? Robert Reich apparently didn’t get that message. In his appearance before Congress on structuring the stimulus plan on January 7th, Reich suggested that the package discriminate against white male workers:
I am concerned, as I’m sure many of you are, that these jobs not simply go to high-skilled people who are already professionals or to white male construction workers. … I have nothing against white male construction workers. I’m just saying that there are a lot of other people who have needs as well. … Criteria can be set so that the money does go to others, the long term unemployed minorities, women, people who are not necessarily construction workers or high-skilled professionals.
Basically, Reich wants Congress to create some means testing that doesn’t explicitly keep stimulus funds from paying the salaries of white males. He suggests that the lawmakers create “criteria” that will have that effect in practice without being crass enough to say, No Whites Need Apply. Congress has done this in milder form for the last few decades by mandating set-asides for women- and minority-owned businesses in government contracts, but even those don’t require the businesses to refuse to hire white male construction workers.
This sounds a lot more like a paternalistic welfare program than a real effort to improve American infrastructure. We’re building roads and bridges for all Americans, using tax money from all Americans. Everyone should have equal access to the jobs created by this stimulus plan. What Reich proposes is flat-out official racism by government, refusing to hire people on the basis of their skin color. Didn’t our last election demonstrate a rejection of that kind of thinking? And note that Reich offers the racist rationalization that he doesn’t have anything against white male construction workers. Maybe some of his best friends are white male construction workers, too.
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Of course money isn’t going to white males. Where do you think it’s coming from!
Tommy_G on January 22, 2009 at 9:00 AM
Keep the money away from leprechans and little people too!
A racist elitest, indeed.
singlemalt_18 on January 22, 2009 at 9:00 AM
As we sink deeper into the abyss…
Matt Helm on January 22, 2009 at 9:02 AM
White-guilt has no cure. An interminable disease.
sherry on January 22, 2009 at 9:02 AM
The first thing that popped into my mind was that this is disgusting.
That’s the best thing I can say right now.
Anna on January 22, 2009 at 9:02 AM
If you are a “White male construction worker” and voted for Obama, we would like to hear your thoughts after watching the video.
izoneguy on January 22, 2009 at 9:04 AM
HMMMMMMMMMMMM
I’m an old retired white male construction worker. It eas the sweat off my balls that already paid for these low life non workers.
Hows about paying the people on SS that built this great country with their backs for little wages. Screw these polititions like Rangle the tax cheat.
Rick007 on January 22, 2009 at 9:04 AM
Anna, amazing was mine (and not a good amazing, either.) Then terrifying, and then disgusting.
StephC on January 22, 2009 at 9:05 AM
You mean there are still white people in construction? Most places I see, either road or building construction, are mostly hispanic workers. Is this Reich’s way of upping the Magnet force to suck more illegals up across the border?
This is so offensive in so many ways. Republicans, go find your gonads for pete’s sake, literally!!!
karenhasfreedom on January 22, 2009 at 9:06 AM
If the American people had any sense they’d gather en masse in Washington and throw the entire Congress out on their asses and start anew.
Of course, generations of liberal indoctrination and media influence has destroyed what sense we may have had.
darwin on January 22, 2009 at 9:07 AM
We may actually reach the tipping point in this country.
Go left young man, go left!
artist on January 22, 2009 at 9:07 AM
Well, like the preacher said – white gotta do what’s right. And that starts (day 1!) with being victimized by explicit racism, evidently.
BillLalor on January 22, 2009 at 9:07 AM
Maybe one of the most depressing videos I have seen…just because I recognize this a a foretelling of what is coming.
This is just the beginning, these ideas are just being formulated, the implementation and expansion hasn’t even begun yet…the middle class is screwed.
We will have at the end of these eight years…the very wealthy, and the very poor…the only difference between us and Mexico will be…………..
right2bright on January 22, 2009 at 9:08 AM
Gee, as a white male (non-construction) worker, does this mean then that I don’t have to pay my taxes (like Rangel & Geithner) to pay for this boondoggle?
rbj on January 22, 2009 at 9:08 AM
What?
You’ve got to be kidding!
So,the Liberal Democratic Party,not only are
racist to African Americans,now their racist
as well towards whites!
If this was a Republican,they would of been
run out of town,and the call of a resignation
by the Liberals,and the media,and rights groups
would be a screaming shrill into overdrive of
outrage!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
canopfor on January 22, 2009 at 9:08 AM
Disgusting.
This was from January 7!! Why wasn’t it all over the news that night?? Nevermind.
Brat on January 22, 2009 at 9:09 AM
They need to send that little puke off to a maggot farm where he can feel at home. This country is sick.
rplat on January 22, 2009 at 9:09 AM
“If the American people had any sense they’d gather en masse in Washington and throw the entire Congress out on their asses and start anew.”
Foreign countries have shut their Parliaments down for matters less than this.
They have literally stormed their gov’t buildings and shut them down.
artist on January 22, 2009 at 9:10 AM
Ahh yes……REVERSE discrimination now is legal!
grapeknutz on January 22, 2009 at 9:10 AM
The only road construction Reich should have any input on involves yellow bricks. I bet he wants to take away the secret ballot for organizing local chapters of the Lollipop Guild, too.
trubble on January 22, 2009 at 9:10 AM
I’m sure Bawny Fwank has nothing against white male construction workers either:)
bluejacket on January 22, 2009 at 9:10 AM
This is going to get interesting.
Vashta.Nerada on January 22, 2009 at 9:10 AM
I still can’t get over that “prayer”. Part childish sing-song rhymes, part racism. Maybe they’ll start saying it in Kindergarten instead of the Pledge of Allegiance.
Back on topic – “Affirmative Stimulus”?
Darbraun on January 22, 2009 at 9:11 AM
The USA has jumped the shark.
jgapinoy on January 22, 2009 at 9:11 AM
This is exactly why so few white male construction workers voted for Obama. They knew darn well they would be doing all the paying and none of the receiving once these guys got in office.
forest on January 22, 2009 at 9:12 AM
Oh come on people. He’s representing the Lollipop Guild. Everybody knows it’s full of racist morons like him. Mr. “Fox Republican News” Reich can kiss my ass hard.
NathanG on January 22, 2009 at 9:12 AM
To quote Joe Pesci in My Cousin Vinny, “Well, there’s a f*ckin’ surprise….”
ErinF on January 22, 2009 at 9:12 AM
White must do what is right here on the job sites.
…so red can get ahead, brown can stick around, yellow can be mellow…
econavenger on January 22, 2009 at 9:12 AM
He has a life-size poster of the Village People construction worker.
jgapinoy on January 22, 2009 at 9:12 AM
Yeah, let’s make sure none of that money goes to those who actually are responsible for what they do and who pay their taxes.
F*** you, Reich.
drjohn on January 22, 2009 at 9:12 AM
There will be a backlash. Things like this are piling up.
marklmail on January 22, 2009 at 9:13 AM
Awww, not to worry. I’m sure they’ll make exceptions for members of the CPUSA, the New Party, Democrat Socialists of America, and so forth – particularly since they have experience working with hammers and sickles, a useful skill in the construction biz.
Buy Danish on January 22, 2009 at 9:13 AM
Here come the emboldened left-wing judges.
AP:
• Judge: Moment of silence in Ill. schools is unconstitutional
artist on January 22, 2009 at 9:14 AM
LOL!!! Yeah! And it’s only day #2!!!
ErinF on January 22, 2009 at 9:14 AM
Yeah. I already can’t get state or federal work due to my race. In my field (structural engineering) we are forced to somehow obtain “minority firm” status, which means forming a partnership with another, minority-owned firm.
TexasDan on January 22, 2009 at 9:14 AM
I’m curious how something like this would pass the equal protection clause.
JohnTant on January 22, 2009 at 9:14 AM
Wait, did we lose a war or something?
Akzed on January 22, 2009 at 9:15 AM
I think here they call it a “march on Washington.” It’s been done for decades by minorities to intimidate lawmakers. Now that the minorities have formed a coalition are are the new majority, white males and their supporters need to take similar actions.
How about a day without whites? Gandhi did it and it shook the British. How about a week without white males, or two?
JiangxiDad on January 22, 2009 at 9:16 AM
There will be a backlash. Things like this are piling up.
marklmail on January 22, 2009
They’re piling up in the garbage can.
It’s not being reported.
artist on January 22, 2009 at 9:16 AM
CAR redux.
BacaDog on January 22, 2009 at 9:16 AM
Things like this make Michelle Obama beam with pride.
sherry on January 22, 2009 at 9:16 AM
Also known as the lazy, the stupid, or just plain idiots.
Wow.
Related…..listen to a voicemail left at Citibank regarding deliquent car payments.
Dr.Cwac.Cwac on January 22, 2009 at 9:16 AM
The real problem is that all of the money will go to MEXICAN male construction workers.
fleiter on January 22, 2009 at 9:17 AM
Can we call this Taxation Without Representation? Is this (hopefully) going to be the Boston Tea Party Part 2?
Revolution!
ErinF on January 22, 2009 at 9:17 AM
I’ve never seen a circus freak wear a suit…
D2Boston on January 22, 2009 at 9:17 AM
I’m curious how something like this would pass the equal protection clause.
JohnTant on January 22, 2009
Left-wing judges.
artist on January 22, 2009 at 9:18 AM
I’ll bet that he even can look you in the eye and say, “Some of my best friends are white construction workers.” Reverse racism is just the same as racism, even if it isn’t politically expedient for the Left.
DL13 on January 22, 2009 at 9:18 AM
I believe I heard Reich say that construction money need not necessarily go to people with any construction experience. I already asked my wife this morning to form a construction company and bid on contracts as a minority. If we get any, I will secretly hire white workers. How can we get phony SS#’s?
JiangxiDad on January 22, 2009 at 9:18 AM
So when does the Construction Worker Unions
begin their can-in-iption fits!!!
canopfor on January 22, 2009 at 9:18 AM
where is the ACLU when you need them?
Oh that’s right their probably the ones lobbying to get this discriminatory policy enacted.
Dreadnought223 on January 22, 2009 at 9:19 AM
Let’s clarify:
Self-hating white male left wing judges. I doubt little hussein will put any minorities or females on the bench.
ErinF on January 22, 2009 at 9:19 AM
Yeah, pay other people, not construction workers, how is this ‘infrastructure’ going to get built?. Sounds like my home city where the city council decided that anyone wanting to do business with the city had to provide health insurance for all their employees, then whined when costs to the city went up and the competitive bid process turned up only one or two companies willing to play. IDIOTS!
TinMan13 on January 22, 2009 at 9:19 AM
Reparations.
Rode Werk on January 22, 2009 at 9:22 AM
I wonder if I can get a bailout for my pitchfork sales?
grapeknutz on January 22, 2009 at 9:22 AM
Like Johnny Friendly in On the Waterfront, “We decide who works”. But what would you expect from Chicago politics
billypaintbrush on January 22, 2009 at 9:23 AM
Do not attempt to adjust your monitors or key boards,
you are now entering the Liberal Outer Limits!!
canopfor on January 22, 2009 at 9:23 AM
As I’ve said before, the left are nothing but utterly despicable people. Their existence does nothing but raise entropy through the roof. They don’t deserve a civilized society to leech off of. Pathetic.
progressoverpeace on January 22, 2009 at 9:24 AM
Dead on! The underlying theme for the next four years.
sherry on January 22, 2009 at 9:24 AM
Look guys, it’s not like we’re under Mugabe or Kim Jong Il.
Wait a minute:
Maybe We Are In North Korea….
My brother made a joke on his Facebook page the other day while watching the Inauguration that it felt to him like he was watching videos of North Korea. I chuckled a little bit at it, but then yesterday, as I am driving home listening to the Sports Reporters with Steve Czaban and Andy Pollin on ESPN 980 out of DC, I hear them advertise a college basketball game that will be on one of their sister stations later in the night and the name of the station is OBAMA 1260. At first I thought I must have heard something wrong, but then they repeated it a second time and sure enough, they were advertising a station called OBAMA 1260.
Dave at Hedgehog Report
artist on January 22, 2009 at 9:24 AM
Citi will back down. IMO, they don’t give a rat’s ass anymore if they get paid back. They (like most US banks) are completely insolvent, and only exist because of taxpayer handouts. It is completely irrelevant to their near-term futures if people re-pay their car loans. It’s a sinking ship,and people there only care about their jobs surviving, not if the bank is profitable or not. To a certain extent, the lady is right. Because of Obama and the politics of racial transfer payments, she prob.won’t have to pay what she owes. The bank is intimidated.
JiangxiDad on January 22, 2009 at 9:24 AM
Reich?! The white man who ws one of the overseers of the collapse of Citigroup?!
Tell me, would we have let Ken Lay give advice to congress?
Skywise on January 22, 2009 at 9:25 AM
Yep. It’s been said before. That is the purpose of the “stimulus.”
JiangxiDad on January 22, 2009 at 9:25 AM
Even more disturbing, he seems to be in favor of intentionally requiring roads and bridges to be built by people who do not know what tehy are doing. Speaking of infrastructure, one must assume that when he speaks of “professionals” he means engineers. This is geting to be some serious stuff. My grandchildren will be driving on those bridges.
MikeA on January 22, 2009 at 9:26 AM
Don’t worry. They’ll be walking.
JiangxiDad on January 22, 2009 at 9:26 AM
Pretty soon, you won’t need one – they will be flying out the door.
Vashta.Nerada on January 22, 2009 at 9:26 AM
This country is beginning to feel like South Africa after Apartheid was (rightfully) removed… what next… land re-distribution?!
Skywise on January 22, 2009 at 9:26 AM
Do I have to keep this microphone up my nose? Yes? Okay.
Coronagold on January 22, 2009 at 9:27 AM
Depends who wins the war.
JiangxiDad on January 22, 2009 at 9:27 AM
Weren’t you paying attention, Ed? Our last election was all about skin color. If it had been about content of character, McCain would have won in a landslide.
Kafir on January 22, 2009 at 9:27 AM
I wonder if I can get a bailout for my pitchfork sales?
grapeknutz on Jan 22,2009 at 9:22AM.
grapeknutz:And Tar and Feathers as well!A Hem:)
canopfor on January 22, 2009 at 9:28 AM
Welfare mothers and crack addicts building bridges.
What could possibly go wrong?
Jim - PRS on January 22, 2009 at 9:29 AM
Reading this stuff can get to you. It is a horrible way to start the day off. Who in Washington D.C. is fighting for us????????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
sherry on January 22, 2009 at 9:29 AM
By all means let’s not encourage any construction by experienced construction workers nor fund any jobs for skilled people.
So much better to hire the unemployable people who are already experienced at living off the public dole.
katiejane on January 22, 2009 at 9:29 AM
I hear ya. I recently lost a long-time client because his church told him he should only be doing business with black-owned businesses.
When I asked him if that wasn’t discrimination, he replied, “Only if you do it.”
dinobalz on January 22, 2009 at 9:29 AM
Who in Washington D.C. is fighting for us????????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
sherry on January 22, 2009 at 9:29 AM
Nobody.
The gig is up.
artist on January 22, 2009 at 9:30 AM
Now I know why Hopey wants a
‘Civilian National Secruity Forces’!!
Enforcement of Liberal,crap,I mean
‘Socialist Policies’!
canopfor on January 22, 2009 at 9:31 AM
No this last election was all about race. That was the only criterion. It was about a black man who was going to give preferential treatment to non-white citizens to make everything ‘fair’.
Preferential treatment in home loans a la ACORN, preferential hiring practices a la affirmative action, preferential enrollment in university/college, preferential pay for ‘equal work’.
It was all about race, it was all about government ordered discrimination against white males and government preference to non-whites. That is what The Obama has been telling us for months, it is what his campaign was all about, that is what Reich is telling us now.
Skandia Recluse on January 22, 2009 at 9:32 AM
Joe the Plumber is/was a white construction worker.
They just can’t leave that alone now.
Bishop on January 22, 2009 at 9:34 AM
Hmmmmm, maybe all the crazy black people who think they are going to get special privileges under Obama aren’t so crazy after all. Reparations in a thin disguise.
As the wife of a white highly skilled professional and the daughter of white male construction worker, I am thoroughly disgusted. Yesterday I found out our taxes were going to pay for foreign abortions and today I’m supposed to accept this. I find it hard to believe that white guilt is so prevalent that the white majority in the country is just going to roll over and take this. White males are to be taxed but they are to be discriminated against when it comes to the redistribution of those taxes. Instead it is going the people who don’t pay taxes in the first place.
It’s only the second day!!! WHERE ARE THE CONSERVATIVES?!! When will they find their spines?
ExcessivelyDiverted on January 22, 2009 at 9:34 AM
Isn’t this along the lines of what Mugabe did to destroy Zimbabwe?
That’s it, our new President is now Ogabe…or Mugama.
Bishop on January 22, 2009 at 9:35 AM
A lot of people are pretending that they don’t know this simple, obvious fact. It was interesting watching all the inaugural coverage, a huge party for a retard without an ounce of experience, and everyone danced around the fact that it was all about skin color. Period.
The Emperor’s New Clothes, in the very real flesh … I never thought that I would see this in reality, but it’s here, and it’s far worse than the fable ever intimated.
progressoverpeace on January 22, 2009 at 9:36 AM
Those of us who paid attention to BO are not surprised.
Wait until they get their hands on health care.
Cody1991 on January 22, 2009 at 9:36 AM
Reich, Clinton, Clinton, Emanuel, Podesta, Panetta, etc.
Did someone invent a Time Machine when I wasn’t looking? Is it 1993 again?
C…H…A…N…G…E
fogw on January 22, 2009 at 9:37 AM
Yes, indeed this is Reparations.
Obama’s Inaugural was nothing more than a giant community organizing speech. Listen carefully. It was directed to be understood very clearly by the followers of Black Liberation Theology.
katy on January 22, 2009 at 9:37 AM
I watch that little piss ant Reich on Kudlow all the time and I want to reach through my TV and ring his little beardy neck, stupid little ivory tower liberal Berkeley professor jerkoff that he is.
He’d better hope he never runs into me and my size 13 work boots in a dark alley…
worlok on January 22, 2009 at 9:37 AM
I wonder what would happen if a significant proportion of the population that actually pays taxes suddenly decided to stop paying them?
Dreadnought223 on January 22, 2009 at 9:37 AM
Another truly moronic statement from a far left lib. I cannot believe the convoluted thought processes of these people.
GFW on January 22, 2009 at 9:37 AM
South Africa Version 2.0
redrock on January 22, 2009 at 9:38 AM
Wait until they get their hands on health care.
Cody1991 on January 22, 2009 a
Yup and that will be on top of the trillion dollar spending spree.
And these programs will never get reversed.
They will just get bigger.
artist on January 22, 2009 at 9:38 AM
Democrats have always been the real racist, now they are in charge. Democrats love to foment racism, its their bread and butter, they thrive on it. They want to create as much division and hatred between the races and the population generally as possible, this plan by socialist Robert Reich would go a long way toward that goal.
Get all the people at each others throats and then the government is free to do whatever it want during all the confusion and infighting. Its classic socialistic strategy.
I just laugh, this is all so much, exactly what I expected from them.
Maxx on January 22, 2009 at 9:39 AM
Until the US actually goes bankrupt, after which all bets are off.
progressoverpeace on January 22, 2009 at 9:40 AM
Just remember everyone – it is unpatriotic to dissent from PBO’s grand plan.
katiejane on January 22, 2009 at 9:40 AM
FIFY
Dr.Cwac.Cwac on January 22, 2009 at 9:41 AM
Ok…so we meet at Lexington Green in about a year?
Bring guns, ammo, an American flag, body armor if you have it and a willingness to fight.
It’s BYOB but you should consider bringing an appetizer to share for the potluck after the battle.
Bishop on January 22, 2009 at 9:43 AM
My reaction to the Reich video was: it is insulting to minorities and women. Reich thinks (like most Democrats) that minorities don’t have skills that would be employable. In other words, he thinks ALL minorities are inner-city multi-generation welfare cases. That’s the only thing that explains his “white male construction workers” comment.
Meanwhile, out here in the real world, most construction sites are heavily Hispanic. I guess Reich never noticed them during his morning commute.
Anton on January 22, 2009 at 9:43 AM
I think what they are saying… “Congress needs to come up with a method of paying reparations to blacks without calling it reparations.”
Dasher on January 22, 2009 at 9:43 AM
Start selling lawn chairs. these job sites are going to look like an episode of the Sopranos.
BrianA on January 22, 2009 at 9:44 AM
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