WTF? Bush's exec. order lets Katrina contractors pay below prevailing wage

[moodforaday]

From CNN, via Mike Malloy (who's awesome):

Bush lifts wage rules for Katrina
President signs executive order allowing contractors to pay below prevailing wage in affected areas.
September 8, 2005: 9:42 PM EDT

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Bush issued an executive order 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.

Bush's action came as the federal government moved to provide billions of dollars in aid, and drew rebukes from two of organized labor's biggest friends in Congress, Rep. George Miller of California and Sen. Edward Kennedy of Massachusetts, both Democrats.

"The administration is using the devastation of Hurricane Katrina to cut the wages of people desperately trying to rebuild their liv



http://money.cnn.com/2005/09/08/news/economy/katrina_wages.reut/index.htm

[Erika]

1. Caste implementation going well by the planet king

We all knew it was coming.

[knowbody0]

2. enslave the poor!

[shraby]

3. And guess who has the federal contract?

H.A.L.L.I.B.U.R.T.O.N.