As the good liberal Robert Reich said, we can’t just give jobs to white male construction workers. We have to do social engineering with Porkulus, he said.
Why didn’t Porkulus create tons of new jobs? Why is Joe Biden allowed to say we guessed wrong on unemployment, when his administration pushed hard for Porkulus to create jobs on shovel ready projects?????
At what point does this administration take responsibility for things that happen in reaction their policies??????
“Men are bearing the brunt of the current economic crisis because they predominate in manufacturing and construction...”
When it finally becomes absolutely impossible to build ANYTHING in this country, through attrition and lost infrastructure, we’ll see what an “economic downturn” RAELLY looks like...
If it had to be spent, and I'm convinced of that, it would have been much better spent rebuilding bridges,roads and power plants.
There is a present need for infrastructure — $1 trillion for that would have made a lot more sense than where it is going to.
How long will Gandy remain "gleeful" as the economy continues to spiral down the commode, because the market will have its way in spite of the best laid plans.
I know it sounds whiny but its the truth - guys had better get it thru their heads that they stand a very good chance of losing a war they haven't even shown up to fight.
DH and I counted up the unemployed at church. All are men who worked in construction or manufacturing. Most have young children at home.
Someone mentioned the number of men out of work at church, I, too, see a large percentage of men out of work in my congregation. I cannot remember a single woman out of a job, for most of these women work either in hospitals or government schools. In the near future, the government will be the largest employer in the United States. We can all look forward to sharing in the poverty of a socialist society. Once we go to socialized medicine, the population will be forced to submit to having their lives run by the federal government.
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The quickest way to produce more jobs in this country is to weed out every illegal alien who works here and deport them.
The irony of following such a policy, which Democrats would never do, is that the group that would gain the most jobs by following such a policy would be African Americans.
Here in NYC illegals work in high paying factory jobs, health care and the food service industry. Another industry where they predominate is the non-union construction industry.
Without illegals many private contractors who pay their help daily, in cash, would be forced to hire American citizens, many of them African Americans and they would probably never get away with paying them $7-10 an hour. Sure they would probably continue paying them off the books but I’d rather see Americans get that money instead of a third of it being wired every week to Mexico, Jamaica, Ireland, the former Soviet Republics, the Dominican Republic or Haiti.
I know someone who works in the NY Dept of Labor and he told me something I was totally unaware of. Of the above mentioned illegals he tells me that the largest growing population of illegals here in NYC are now Russians (mostly from the republics of the former Soviet Union) and Irish.
The stimulus doesn’t have to “work”. The “leadership” can merely decalre that it “is working”, and the sheeple will comply accordingly.
Why talk like cave man?
Men and white people hardest hit!
Obi is sticking it to real men since they won’t let him join the club.
Henry Ford used to say there are only 3 ways to create real wealth in this world—grow it, mine it, or make it.
Without wealth-creating manufacturing jobs there is no money to support jobs like health care and education. That is what California is learning the hard way.
These NOW women may be gleeful now and congratulating themselves on how clever they are, but they actually quite stupid and are shooting themselves in the foot.
Within living memory, the American feminist movement was a valiant, broad-based vehicle for social equality. It achieved historic victories and enjoys continuing, richly deserved prestige for its valor and success. But it has now harnessed that prestige to the ethos and methods of a conventional interest group.
And the author particularly gets this wrong:
Recall that the Obama administration has taken extraordinary steps to insulate itself from the machinations of organized lobbyists, establishing strict limits and procedures for contacts and communications of every sort.
It was apparent to me that the above was almost all window dressing that was intended to impress the credulous, and the author's initial belief in it is evidence it succeeded. If she still believes, the more of a fool she is.
Yet its first major policy initiative was transformed by an orchestrated barrage of emails, op-eds, online petitions, open letters, faxes, phone calls, scripted handshakes, and meetings. And the administration went to great lengths to satisfy its petitioners that their proposals had been adopted directly into law.
No surprise to me, considering it wasn't white males organizing the barrage.
It was not designed or supposed to work.
It was designed to debauch the currency of the United States.
Wait until 2010 and you will see that it will be working as planned. In fact, drive by your local gas station and you will get a sneak preview.
...just makes you all want to elect a victim feminist to the presidency, eh?
[Little irony and sarcasm there.]
Thanks for the post - Summers’s got the insightful thing going - it’s a WOW...
Might be a time to start a “bring your sons to work” day...
As Barry Obama and Barney Frank would say (in unison): Misshun accompwished!!