[lit-ideas] Eric's idea twisted a bit
- From: Eternitytime1@xxxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2005 23:48:32 EDT
Dear Eric,
Here you go!
They DO get jobs. Not enough to live on--but enough to make the people hire
them feel really good about themselves.
and Bush can say that he did what you wanted!
Isn't it wonderful??
<wry look>
(In case Andy thought that I really meant that...)
Best,
Marlena in Missouri
_Rep. George Miller: Bush Proves How Far Removed He Is_
(http://news.yahoo.com/s/huffpost/20050910/cm_huffpost/007112;_ylt=An1n91LGCImiY1QScc8cybgd6sgF;_yl
u=X3oDMTBiMW04NW9mBHNlYwMlJVRPUCUl) Fri Sep 9, 8:23 PM ET
Just when you thought it couldnât get any worse, President Bush proved once
again just how far removed he and his Administration are from the life
experiences of most Americans. The President issued an executive order on
Thursday
that makes it possible for federal contractors to pay extremely low wages to
workers hired for the Gulf Coast rebuilding. Bush accomplished this by
suspending the 1931 Davis-Bacon law, which says that federal contractors must
pay
their workers a âprevailing wageâ on construction projects. Contrary to the
misinformation coming from the right wing â that prevailing wages are
actually
high âunion wages,â as John Fund wrote on The Huffington Post last week â
the truth is that the prevailing wage is just the average wage for a specific
job function in a local area. In parts of the Gulf Coast, these wages for
construction workers can be low â even as low as $7, $8, or $9 an hour.
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