It looksl ike minorities aren't getting their fair share of the stimulus bill either. It looks like this is another case of 'listen to what Obama says and not what he does' or the outcome. This Hope/Change isn't what most Americans thought it would be. Is this just another mistake by the Obama admin. or are they just using Cloward-Pivens stratagy like Obama used to teach at the university? And now we are beholden to our debters for this stimulus bill that hasn't worked out the way they said it would. How incompatent can one admin. be? Well at least the big labor unions and big business made out good on the Democrats deal. We should all be happy with who and what got our money,our kids money and our grand kids money. Lets sing a fun hippy song about love and rioting. The Democrats have turned this country on it's head and we are holding the bill for this buffoonfest in Washington. These buffoons can't get anything right. When the discontent swells over,and hope is lost, I pray the liberal faction doesn't riot anymore in order to get what they want. I'm afraid we aren't done with the hard times. Thanks to Obama and the Democrats in Congress we are heading in the wrong diorection and people are getting angree because they were mislead or lied to. How can these liberals not care about what they are doing to the poor?
From The Associated Press: WASHINGTON – Hispanic and black businesses are receiving a disproportionately small number of federal stimulus contracts, creating a rising chorus of demands for the Obama administration to be more inclusive and more closely track who receives government-financed work.
Latinos and blacks have faced obstacles to winning government contracts long before the stimulus. They own 6.8 and 5.2 percent of all businesses, respectively, according to census figures. Yet Latino-owned business have received only 1.7 percent of $46 billion in federal stimulus contracts recorded in U.S. government data, and black-owned businesses have received just 1.1 percent.
That pot of money is just a small fraction of the $862 billion economic stimulus law. Billions more have been given to states, which have used the money to award contracts of their own.
Although states record minority status when they award contracts to businesses, there is no central, consistent or public compilation of that data, according to Laura Barrett, director of the Transportation Equity Network. She and other minority advocates are calling for complete and publicly accessible demographic information on all contracts and jobs financed by the stimulus.
Isn’t it amazing how the Founding Fathers could see into the future……..
"It would reduce the whole instrument to a single phrase, that of instituting a Congress with power to do whatever would be for the good of the United States; and as they would be the sole judges of the good or evil, it would be also a power to do whatever evil they please. Certainly no such universal power was meant to be given them. It [the Constitution] was intended to lace them up straightly within the enumerated powers and those without which, as means, these powers could not be carried into effect." --Thomas Jefferson, Opinion on a National Bank, 1791
