wow!

BUSH SUSPENDS MINIMUM WAGE IN RECOVERY AREA - SLAVE LABOR WAGES HERE WE COME!

Just when I think that he can't get any worse, I read this on the White House Web site - an Executive Order eliminating the minimum wage in the affected areas:

(b) The wage rates imposed by section 3142 of title 40, United States Code, increase the cost to the Federal Government of providing Federal assistance to these areas.

c) Suspension of the subchapter IV of chapter 31 of title 40, United States Code, 40 U.S.C. 3141-3148, and the operation of related acts to the extent they depend upon the Secretary of Labor's determinations under section 3142 of title 40, United States Code, will result in greater assistance to these devastated communities and will permit the employment of thousands of additional individuals....

And, as to such contracts to be performed in such jurisdictions, I do hereby suspend, until otherwise provided, the provisions of any Executive Order, proclamation, rule, regulation, or other directive providing for the payment of wages, which provisions are dependent upon determinations by the Secretary of Labor under section 3142 of title 40, United States Code

Let me break that down for you. At a time of national crisis, and the President already having signed $61 BILLION in disaster relief, we as a nation can't afford to pay $9 an hour to laborers?

Of course we can.

This isn't about employing more people, this is a disgusting cash grab the likes of which has never been visited upon our nation. Didn't take long for this to happen, did it? They are the most inhuman corrupt bunch of assholes.Like mother like son. Hey, those laborers have it pretty good down there! (HOMELESS and trying to rebuild their communities.) They don't need $9 an hour.

Just when I think that George Bush can't disgust me any more...

(Americablog)
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