Sizzling Wolves
To: Mickey Kaus
Re: More Hot Davis-Bacon Dish!
B.'s remarks amount to: Davis-Bacon provides firms that regularly hire union labor with an advantage over firms that regularly hire illegal immigrants.
Good!
Actually, we can agree on something: post-Katrina contracting should be policed for illegal immigrant hiring. Contractors will doubtless use them to ease wage pressure.
Theoretically, it would be good for Dems to show the Bush administration, in effect, conspiring with contractors to avoid D-B accountability and increase the number of illegals on federal contracts... but they'd probably regard that as racist!
P.S.
Rethinking what I said in a previous email, we already have a massive federal jobs program in stealth form as food stamps etc subsidize low-wage jobs. Depending on overall economic conditions, maybe this is a good thing?
Re: More Hot Davis-Bacon Dish!
B.'s remarks amount to: Davis-Bacon provides firms that regularly hire union labor with an advantage over firms that regularly hire illegal immigrants.
Good!
Actually, we can agree on something: post-Katrina contracting should be policed for illegal immigrant hiring. Contractors will doubtless use them to ease wage pressure.
Theoretically, it would be good for Dems to show the Bush administration, in effect, conspiring with contractors to avoid D-B accountability and increase the number of illegals on federal contracts... but they'd probably regard that as racist!
P.S.
Rethinking what I said in a previous email, we already have a massive federal jobs program in stealth form as food stamps etc subsidize low-wage jobs. Depending on overall economic conditions, maybe this is a good thing?
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