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Originally Posted by Praxeas
She didn't write the article nor was she the economic adviser who made the quote
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Yes, I fully understand that.
I was responding to Michelle Malkin's comments on the issue:
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Commentator Michelle Malkin said Reich's statements expose "the lie that the Obama administration is actually interested in revitalizing basic infrastructure for the good of the economy."
"No, what Team Obama really wants is to ensure that the least skilled, least qualified workers get jobs based on their chromosomes and pigment," she said.
Malkin cited Reich's own blog, where the Obama adviser wrote of the economic stimulus plan: "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 with incomes at or below 200 percent of the federal poverty level."
This, Malkin wrote, is "spoken like a true-blue wealth redistributor. The 'needs' (read: demands) of politically protected minorities trump the need for competently build roads and bridges."
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Which is why I said:
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Originally Posted by TRFrance
I consider Michelle Malkin a borderline racist anyway... (and that's putting it nicely).
To me, that undermines anything she has to say on race-related issues.
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