"Take the politics out of the reconstruction effort," they sniveled.
Well, how long did our OWN democrats "take the politics out?"
Why, 4 whole days! In fact, it's almost like they want people to connect Tom with the whole disaster! But they COULDN'T want THAT.... could they?
Are they so desperate they have to make up crap like this? Are they so sure that Stuart is going to lose that they have to sink to this level?
What am I saying? OF COURSE THEY ARE!
If the Davis-Bacon act did NOT allow for this Executive Order, then the democrats and the unions could easily judge-shop and find a federal judge to rule against the President. That it DOES allow for PRECISELY this situation is obviously the case, or otherwise these neo-comms already would have been in court.
And what's the message of THIS little snit?
The message is that the democrats want the unions TO PROFIT OFF THIS DISASTER.
The message is that the democrats want to STICK IT TO THE TAXPAYERS.
And that clown calls President Bush "immoral?"
Please.
The Gulf Coast Pay Cut and Tom Mielke
Tom Mielke has always opposed prevailing wage laws. Looks like the party of Tom Mielke is getting its wish in pushing forward a massive pay cut to residents of the Gulf Coast now that Katrina has wrecked the area:
(Look's like the party of the Ass is getting desperate in the Commissioner's Race)
Bush allows contractors to pay lower wages
WASHINGTON, Sept 8 (Reuters) - U.S. President George W. Bush issued an executive order on Thursday allowing federal contractors rebuilding in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina to pay below the prevailing wage.
In a notice to Congress, Bush said the hurricane had caused "a national emergency" that permits him to take such action under the 1931 Davis-Bacon Act in ravaged areas of Alabama, Florida, Louisiana and Mississippi.
Let's call the prevailing wage exemption what it really is, a pay cut. Why does Tom Mielke want to cut your pay?? How does paying people less help the rebuilding effort?
(Can anyone be this stupid? It "helps the rebuilding effort" by having 20 to 30% more money available for construction materials and labor! Really, now, the question wasn't all THAT hard, and you would think he'd be able to figure it out himself!)
Meanwhile, Congressman George Miller (D-CA)
calls Bush out:The President suspended wage standards for workers on the Gulf Coast before he declared a national emergency. That means he was so focused on cutting the wages of people who'd be returning to the Gulf Coast to rebuild their lives and their communities that, in order to hasten the suspension, he failed to follow the law. And at the same time the White House was cutting workers' wages, it was busy awarding no-bid contracts. The President has proven once again that he's more interested in governing for the few than in governing for all of us.
(No.... no.... you people don't understand. (Like THAT'S a surprise!) What the President has done is shown he's much more interested in action than he is talk. You people, on the other hand...)
The President's pay cut affects tens of thousands, or even hundreds of thousands, of Americans who desperately need a decent income to rebuild their lives.
(Actually, that's simply not true. Union membetrship has plummeted. I would be surprised if this had an effect on 10,000 people total, while the taxpayers of this country, already on the hook for billions of dollars in this effort, will save billions more. But you know, when it comes to prevailing wage, unions and ultra-leftist democrats have rarely shown any concern over those of us actually PAYING THE FRICKING BILLS.)
People working construction jobs in the Gulf Coast might only have earned $7 or $8 in the first place; now, the only protection left for them is the federal minimum wage, which is a disgraceful $5.15 an hour because Republicans repeatedly refuse to increase it.
(What... a... crock. A union construction job paying "$7 or $8" an hour? Like that's even POSSIBLE with a prevailing wage requirement?)
What the President has done is immoral.
(And what you people are demanding is sweat off the brows of the survivors and those actually paying the bills. If you scum bags don't like what we pay, then go work somewhere else.)
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