Rangel wanted ALL the money to go to low income neighborhoods...
I wouldnt say all money but i would say majority of it should. Some of the nations biggest issues thrive in low socioeconomic communities
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The site that uploaded that video (Naked Emperor News) appears to be a far right Republican group. For god's sake, they are even endorsing Palin for President in 2012. That's really all that needs to be said about those nut-jobs.
If you want the full story about what Robert Reich intends, check out his blog post on this subject and don't rely on some hacked together video on Youtube posted by right wing nut-jobs.
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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 jobs 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 within comes 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 -- which must be fully available to women and minorities.
The site that uploaded that video (Naked Emperor News) appears to be a far right Republican group. For god's sake, they are even endorsing Palin for President in 2012. That's really all that needs to be said about those nut-jobs.
If you want the full story about what Robert Reich intends, check out his blog post on this subject and don't rely on some hacked together video on Youtube posted by right wing nut-jobs.
His words said it all. For all the union workers that voted - The fact that they do not want to have "skilled workers" making your bridges and highways is not safe for anyone.
As far as the white males comment - you can think whatever you want - if it was the reverse being said - it would not go un-noticed.
New Construction Jobs - This Video Everyone Needs To See Its Very Bad 
