Gulf Coast Wage Cut Act

This is old news, but significant. One of the VERY FIRST THINGS that President Bush did was to sign an act that allowed contractors that get federal money to rebuild the Gulf Coast region to pay substandard wages to the workers they hire. Really. If they had called it the "Gulf Coast Wage Cut Act" I doubt it would have gone under the radar so easily- but it was instead they called it "a temporay suspension of the Davis-Bacon Act", making most people think it had to do with pig farming I suppose...

Now, this doesn’t make a lot of sense from a lot of standpoints- you want to stimulate the economy in the region, people need money to spend, so they can buy clothes, food, new furniture, etc. Which they can’t do if they are being paid $8 or $9 dollars an hour. The only people that make out well from this ruling are the large corporate interests, like, say Halliburton (Surprise!)

Give credit where credit is due- the Bush team are honest crooks. Once bought, they stay bought.

Party of family values, indeed.