“The fact that he talked about that, and he didn’t talk about this derailment, this derailment should be, but the derailment’s a colossal failure on the part of the Transportation Department,” Rogan added.
On Wednesday's episode of the Joe Rogan Experience the host slammed Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg's Monday comments that there are too many white construction workers.
While speaking to comedian Bridget Phetasy Rogan said, "Do you know that he gave a speech the other day about how there's too many white people working in construction sites? Where these construction sites are set up in these communities, where the people in the community can benefit from it. Which shows a profound lack of understanding of skilled labor because if you're talking about people that are carpenters, people that are plumbers, and people that are electricians, and people that are framers and roofers, like that's skilled labor."
"Like, you have to hire people that are really good at that, and if they don't exist in that community, you have to hire them from outside that community," Rogan said. "That's why those unions are important, that's why it's important that, look if you see what happens when you have unskilled labor and unskilled people working on buildings, you have f*ckinh disasters."
While speaking uring the National Association of Counties Conference, Buttigieg said, "We have heard way too many stories from generations past of infrastructure where you got a neighborhood, often a neighborhood of color, that finally sees the project come to them, but everyone in the hard hats on that project, doing the good paying jobs, don't look like they came from anywhere near the neighborhood."
"You can build community wealth that will help close wealth gaps in this country if we can tear down those barriers. But that happens at the delivery level," Buttigieg added.
Buttigieg did not address the February 3 Norfolk Southern 50-car train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio that released toxic chemicals, including vinyl chloride, into the surrounding area.
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"The fact that he talked about that, and he didn't talk about this derailment, this derailment should be, but the derailment's a colossal failure on the part of the Transportation Department," Rogan added.
Ohio residents had been ordered out of their homes after the derailment. As The Post Millennial reported, on February 6 authorities began burning off the chemicals to reduce the risk of a vinyl chloride explosion. On February 9 residents returned home and they found the odor of chemicals lingering in the air and dead fish in rivers and creeks, causing concerns the local water supply has become contaminated.
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