And therefore, in my remarks, I have suggested to you, and I'm certainly happy to talk about it more, ways in which the money can be -- 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.

  He's trying to figure out a way to take money all the way to the bottom of the economy without the necessity of filtering it through skilled work.   uuummmm  Mr. Reich that's easy.  Just call it what it is..... welfare.

After all, it was we eeeeeeeeeeeeevil white people who supported slavery for, and later, discrimination against, black Americans.

The fact that I participated in neither of the above is immaterial to this sawed-off runt of a Marxist professor.

The MSM is not about to report what this pathetic little man said, as they themselves were similarly indoctrinated by other self-loathing, freedom-hating Marxist professors who hold the same views as does Reich.

I think its time this hideous little failure of a man returned to U.C. Berzerkeley, where he can continue to teach his anti-white, racist communism to rich white kids.

-Dave

“Them that’s going get on the wagon. Them that ain’t get out of the way.” -While there is still time.

Heaven forbid we help people who have probably paid the most taxes.

 Once again, where is the GOP on this?

Crickets chirping.

Damn frustrating...

"White male construction workers"?

What if they're Asian? Or Hispanic? What if they're half black?

I need to point out here that the Reich comment lives on the basis of peoples misunderstanding of what is involved in the federal construction contract process. Reich' big lie is the erroneous assumption that big contracts are awarded to Halliburton , Bechtel etc as a mountain of uncontrolled cash.

Those (federal) contracts which involve federal funds are very,very carefully written by democrat lawyers and have so many provisions requiring minority businesses and individuals a guaranteed share of the sub contract that the safety and quality issues are often overlooked in the pursuit of fairness.

In fact much of the cost of a constuction project is embedded in the administration by way of hundreds of people profitting from their color advantage . Some of those are competent but many are granted their share by merely qualifying on the basis of ethnicity. In this way the contract cost is inflated.

It is a huge lie to suggest evil white construction people are getting all of the profits.

I doubt Mr. Dobbs will be around on CNN
for much longer, they tolerated him as long as he was a thorn in the
side of Bush and congressional Republicans, but didn't he get the
memo that you can't report anything against Obama. As for Reich, he
is a racist, the worst kind of racist. It is absolutely wrong to hate
other races but I feel it is horrendous to hate one's own race.

more intellectual than this..(okay that's a lie) ;-) but why does reich appear to be snorting something through the podium mike in this picture? what could he have down there? powdered kool-aid???

"Here comes the orator! With his flood of words, and his drop of reason"  Ben Franklin

Ecclesiastes 10:2 The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but the heart of the fool to the left

So now it's revealed that "post-racial" was code-speak (as many suspected) for "your turn in the barrel, white men."

"Meet the new boss, same as the old boss..." - The Who

Robert Reich is an idiot. I have been in the construction industry for 20 yrs. and I can assure you that it is not dominated by white males. Certain trades are dominated by people of different races sure, but on construction projects most all trades are employed together.

For instance, blacks do alot of the hauling. Blacks and Hispanics also dominate the concrete, masonry and paving trades at least here in Va. There are highly skilled people of different races that I have had the pleasure to work with over the years.

But they are highly skilledand good at what they do.

Now the Federal Government and State governments always usually employ private contractors to do their projects and last time I checked employers have to abide by affirmative action. The only way Mr. Reich's stupid plan would work is if they changed the affirmative action law or the government started up their own construction company.

I am experienced in utility construction such as gas pipeline and power. Construction work at times can be dangerous, and the end product usually means the people using it have to depend on it's safety and quality. You have to be able to trust the people around you with your life at times. People doing this work are highly skilled and you just can't take someone off the street who isn't skilled and throw them into the higest skilled and highest paid positions. It takes yrs. of experience or "paying your due's" so to speak to get to the top of those proffesions.

Now there are alot of folks nationwide that are getting laid off and losing their job's and it appears Mr. Reich believes these stimulus programs should only benefit blacks, women, the chronically un-employed/ un-employable. That's unity? That's change?

Last time I checked, this recession/depression doesn't discriminate against those losing their jobs or falling on hard times. Why should Mr. Reich and the Obama admin.? 

Why because it's political. Most white males in the construction trades are conservative. This is about punishing conservatives and rewarding the Democrat voting block who are reliably black and female..

Oh yea, did I mention Robert Reich is an idiot.

"You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. We must be cautious. "

- Ben Kenobi on  Liberals, and the MSM.

" The Cake is a lie."   

UC Bezerkly teacher and a resident of the center of left coast insanity, as they consider SF a conservative town....

This guy has been spewing this stuff for 20+ years or so to anyone who will listen.  Another old Clinton Dem retread trying to stay relavent. 

His babble on CNBC is well known.  He is kinda like a Holmes to Hannity type with Kudlow.

No Representation in NorCal

Robert (3rd) Reich is a racist, malignant little toad!.

Reich is familiar with those construction workers, dominated by the labor unions that, for years, kept blacks out of the union.  These are Democrats so Reich knows what he's talking about.  The problem with construction work, stimulating the economy, it's seasonal, in many sections of the country, doesn't bring in a lot of ancilliary manufacturing, and the money, for the most part, will go through state legislatures, to be syphoned off for other projects.

If anyone expects the Democrats to be different, this time around, they've been smoking something really, really powerful.  Lay off the stuff and look again, very carefully.  

Election 2008-God's way of showing us that elections count.