That was where the jobs would be: nurse's aides, companions to infirm seniors, hospital orderlies. The group bandied about ideas for how to channel job-seeking men into this growth industry. A need in one area filling a need in another. Interlocking problems, interlocking solutions. The Holy Grail of systemic change.
But Obama shook his head.
"Look, these are guys," he said. "A lot of them see health care, being nurse's aides, as women's work. They need to do something that fits with how they define themselves as men." ...
As the room chewed over the non-PC phrase "women's work," trying to square the senator's point with their analytical models, [Alan] Krueger—who was chief economist at the Department of Labor in the mid-1990s at the tender age of thirty-four—sat there silently, thinking that in all his years of studying men and muscle, he had never used that term. But Obama was right. Krueger wondered how his latest research on happiness and well-being might take into account what Obama had put his finger on: that work is identity, that men like to build, to have something to show for their sweat and toil.
"Infrastructure," he blurted out. "Rebuilding infrastructure."
Obama nodded and smiled, seeing it instantly. "Now we're talking. . . . Okay, let's think [...]
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Wednesday 28 September 2011
Obama's Infrastructure Stimulus — designed to build masculine pride.
Here's a fascinating passage from Ron Suskind's new book "Confidence Men: Wall Street, Washington, and the Education of a President" (pp. 18-19)(boldface added). Obama and his advisers are plotting campaign strategy in August 2007 and the subject turned to the problem of jobs for 10 million low- to moderately skilled male workers. What "sunrise" could the government subsize and stimulate. The advisers hit on health care:
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