Where Are Obama’s New Jobs? (Hint: not for men)

President Obama has repeatedly expressed his concern about our rising unemployment. The worst loss of jobs is in manufacturing, because building autos has gone overseas, and in construction, because the housing industry has tanked.

When Obama announced his Stimulus appropriation, he promised millions of “shovel-ready” jobs. His proposal was attractive because it conjured up visions of crews in hard hats repairing our nation’s infrastructure, roads, bridges and electrical grids, and building long-needed highways and schools.

We were told that the purpose of this extraordinary deficit spending in the Stimulus package was to jolt the economy. We expected the money to be concentrated on the areas that have suffered the steepest decline during this recession such as the auto industry and housing construction.

But the feminists then demonstrated the death grip they hold over Obama and the leaders of the Democratic Party. The feminists swung into action with noisy accusations that the Stimulus discriminated against women because its jobs would go mostly to men.

The feminists had no sympathy with the fact that men were victims of most of the lost jobs; the majority of manufacturing and construction jobs are men’s jobs. The segments of our economy dominated by women, social services, education, health, child care, and welfare, actually gained jobs during this recession.

Nevertheless, the feminists demanded that half the Stimulus jobs be given to women. The feminists worked to achieve this result by directing the Stimulus funds into the types of jobs where women predominate and by allocating at least a third of the spending in manufacturing and construction industries to training women for those men’s jobs.

All the feminist organizations joined in the political clatter. They called for a meeting so they could lecture Obama’s economic advisers and hurl their demands that the Stimulus package create jobs that women like, such as workplace-comfortable inside jobs with air-conditioned offices and carpeted floors.

As one tactic to intimidate Obama Administration officials, the feminists successfully insisted that participants in the meeting be seated in a circle without a table between them, a format that enabled the feminists to be confrontational. The feminists created their own vocabulary to shout at the men, demanding jobs for “human infrastructure” and “human bridges,” which were euphemisms for social service, health-care, child care, and librarian jobs.

The feminists were well aware that Obama’s chief economist is Larry Summers, the former president of Harvard University, who had already proved himself a pushover for pushy feminists. His embarrassing confrontation with hysterical feminist faculty over academic math and science professorships proved that there is no way to appease the feminists and that apologizing to them only makes matters worse; they still demanded their pound of flesh and saw to it that he resign.

After working over the Administration representatives assigned to get their orders from the feminists, they moved on to lobby Congress to write their demands into the text of the Stimulus bill. They succeeded with the compliance of Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid after face-to-face meetings, and Obama signed the revised Stimulus bill.

A member of Pelosi’s staff dared to offer the suggestion that “apron ready” could be the female equivalent of the term “shovel ready.” The feminists didn’t think that was funny.

Unemployment figures show that men are continuing to lose jobs and that women are getting jobs created by the Stimulus bill. The Associated Press reported in June that “Social programs get bulk of Stimulus cash; ’shovel-ready’ jobs take back seat to spending on health care, welfare.”

Obama gave two of his economists the task of calculating the gender ratio of jobs to be created by the Stimulus legislation. They reported that women had only 20% of jobs lost in the recession, but would get 42% of Stimulus-created jobs. In Georgia, for example, two-thirds of the $3.9 billion Stimulus money is going to existing social programs.

When are the American people going to wake up to the fact that the feminists are not for equal opportunity or for fairness? The feminist movement is for reverse discrimination to give jobs to women and make men, husbands and fathers irrelevant as family providers. Stimulus Jobs for Illegal Aliens?

Will taxpayer-financed Stimulus jobs be given to illegal aliens? Contrary to the liberals’ no-can-do approach toward our wide-open borders, at least three “shovel-ready” solutions are readily available to close dangerous gaps in our border security. The three solutions are E-Verify, No-Match Letters, and US-VISIT.

E-Verify is a real-time, internet-based, voluntary verification system run by the Department of Homeland Security and the Social Security Administration. E-Verify can determine with great accuracy the authenticity of the personal information and credentials offered by employees and new hires.

Approximately 99.4% of lawful workers receive immediate positive verification, while the other 0.6% of lawful workers receive positive verification after a brief visit to their local Social Security office. E-Verify is not expensive for employers to use, costing between $4 and $20 for each employee screened.

In most cases, verification occurs almost instantly. E-Verify has been proven to successfully verify employees queried through the system within five seconds. Opponents of this program, to date, have been unable to find a single instance in which legal, U.S. citizens have lost their jobs due to an E-Verify error.

The Obama Administration doesn’t like E-Verify because it works. It is due to expire on September 8 and should be extended and made mandatory.

While E-Verify is meant to catch illegal aliens at the point of initial hiring, No-Match Letters are a means of identifying those who already hold jobs illegally. After tabulating wage reports, Social Security has identified employers having at least ten, a hundred, or even 1,000 or more stolen or fictitious Social Security numbers. Thousands of wage reports include such obviously fraudulent numbers as 000-00-0000 and 999-99-9999.

Soon after 9/11, federal employees sent a million No-Match Letters to employers that had reported at least 10 phony Social Security numbers on their employee wage reports. That caused a firestorm from the usual suspects, and the Bush Administration stopped the program.

With the collapse of “comprehensive” amnesty legislation in the summer of 2007, the Bush Administration again prepared to send out a batch of a half-million No-Match Letters to employers who were still submitting many false or stolen ID numbers. A federal district judge issued a nationwide injunction against mailing the letters, and then-DHS Secretary Michael Chertoff meekly obeyed.

The third important tool available to secure our borders is the long-delayed US-VISIT system for tracking the entry and exit of tourists, students, and temporary workers. It’s estimated that 40% of all persons illegally present in the United States actually entered with legal documents, but simply failed to go home when they were supposed to.

US-VISIT should have caught most or all of the 9/11 hijackers before they carried out their murderous conspiracy. There is simply no way we can protect our national security unless we can reliably know who is entering and leaving our country each day.