To ensure that white male construction workers don’t pocket a disproportionate amount of the bailout money, advises Reich, “Criteria can be set, so the money does go to others, the long-term unemployed, minorities, women.” In other words, the long-term unemployed and government-defined perpetual victims will be up on the bridges and levees, patching and constructing, while the guys who know how to do the work will be sent off to join the ranks of the long-term unemployed, all for the purpose of leveling.
