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On Jan 23, 7:41 am, "." <anoblew...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Jan 23, 2:06 am, hp...@lycos.com wrote:
>
> > I heard Robert Reichs twisted comments and was shocked. (Robert Reich
> > is Tribal)
>
> Well, here in California, the majority of blue collar construction
> workers are *Mexicans*, not Whites, but these "hard-working family
> men" would be replaced by their gangbanging jailbird kids, if Reich
> got his "Green Job Corps".
>
> http://robertreich.blogspot.com/2009/01/stimulus-how-to-create-jobs-w...
>
> Thursday, January 08, 2009
> The Stimulus: How to Create Jobs Without Them All Going to Skilled
> Professionals and White Male Construction Workers
>
> The stimulus plan will create jobs repairing and upgrading the
> nation's roads, bridges, ports, levees, water and sewage system,
> public-transit systems, electricity grid, and schools. And it will
> kick-start alternative, non-fossil based sources of energy (wind,
> solar, geothermal, and so on); new health-care information systems;
> and universal broadband Internet access.
>
> It's a two-fer: lots of new jobs, and investments in the nation's
> future productivity.
>
> But if there aren't enough skilled professionals to do the jobs
> involving new technologies, the stimulus will just increase the wages
> of the professionals who already have the right skills rather than
> generate many new jobs in these fields. And if construction jobs go
> mainly to white males who already dominate the construction trades,
> many people who need jobs the most -- women, minorities, and the poor
> and long-term unemployed -- will be shut out.
>
> What to do? There's no easy solution to either dilemma. But there's no
> reason to think about "green jobs" as simply high-tech. Many low-
> income and low-skilled workers -- women as well as men -- could be put
> directly to work providing homes and businesses with more efficient
> and renewable heating, lighting, cooling, and refrigeration systems;
> installing solar panels and efficient photovoltaic systems;
> rehabilitating and renovating old properties, and improving recycling
> systems. "Green Jobs Corps" teams could be trained to evaluate and
> advise homeowners and businesses on these and other means of
> conserving energy.
>
> People can be trained relatively quickly for these sorts of jobs, as
> well as many infrastructure j0bs generated by the stimulus --
> installing new pipes for water and sewage systems, repairing and
> upgrading equipment, basic construction -- but contractors have to be
> nudged both to provide the training and to do the hiring.
>
> I'd suggest that all contracts entered into with stimulus funds
> require contractors to provide at least 20 percent of jobs to the long-
> term unemployed and to people withincomes at or below 200 percent of
> the federal poverty level. And at least 2 percent of project funds
> should be allocated to such training. In addition, advantage should be
> taken of buildings trades apprenticeships -- wich must be fully
> available to women and minorities.
>
> posted by Robert Reich | 1:04 PM


guess roberts not worried about jewish sheetrockers getting work.