He was referring to using the funds from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) stimulus package and specifically to those states whose governors are refusing to accept ARRA money to expand their unemployment programs to cover part-time workers and others not now eligible. Problem is, after the federal largesse runs out, the states are stuck paying for these programs themselves, as the dissenting governors have argued.
But Biden has a plan for these governors, which sounds similar to what the White House is already doing to Rush Limbaugh--shame, smear, scandalize and mock them using the captive media. (Nancy Pelosi has another plan to stop Limbaugh. She's working on a law requiring equality of viewpoints on public radio, meaning probably five liberal hosts to one conservative host, or better, five to none.)
Speaking to the AFL-CIO convention in Miami this past week, Biden also revealed that the stimulus money was earmarked for union jobs (gee, what a surprise, and how come no one in the media ever figured that out and reported on it?).
Here's how he explained it:
"The focus of this administration the first month has been to rebuild American roads, bridges, waterways -- jobs for the building trades union. Investing and getting more people access to broadband -- communication workers. Creating clean energy economy -- jobs that require electrical workers to modernize the grid, steel workers to go out and build the wind turbines, laborers to install the solar panels. Making our communities safer, jobs that require getting cops on the beat and keeping firefighters in firehouses. That's what we're trying to do."
Conveniently, no cameras were allowed into the meeting, but the Biden PR people were gracious enough to release a transcript to the media.
To sum up, if you were around during the Cold War, or bothered to study a little 1950s-1980s history, you'll see the parallel: Biden clearly wants to establish "captive states," just as the former Soviet Union had its "captive nations." (I should throw in "captive businesses" too, which will all fall to unionization once EFCA passes.)
6 comments:
Unions were great at one time but as all greats do become to big for their own good they destroy all of us. Obama and Biden are all for unions when the fact of the matter is small business are the fruit of this land. Some might not agree but Bush knew that and pushed for it but he knew like others it was almost impossible to fix the economy by the time it was too late. Then here comes the obama team and thinks they can fix problems with money that does not exist.
How can you regulate free speech. I think it's horrible how the government controls the media in that sense. Trying to make someone look bad makes you look just as bad. Maybe they should just stop and listen to what people are saying instead of listening to only the ones that pay you the most.
These are dark days for our country and it's going to be a long time until the clouds clear
Unions, unions, and more unions. This country is going down because of unions and the Obama administration. Anyone that supports either biden or obama ought to be shot.
Yeah, look at the so-called Big Three automakers, who are saddled with union obligations that tack on about $1500 per car in extra costs. No wonder Toyota is now the number-one automaker in the world.
Good ol' Biden. I think someone should send the white house a stack of shovels. They might as well get started on America's grave. Can't believe we have four years left of this and we are still at the beginning.
And here I thought the shovels were for digging out the piles of BS on the White House floors....
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