Bush to Halliburton and Bechtel: Don't Worry About Having to Pay Minimum Wage for People to Risk Lives in Louisiana...

From Light Up the Darkness:

At a time when the ramification of low wages and poverty has been made abundantly clear, the Bush Administration STILL doesn’t get it. Nancy Pelosi was exactly right, this man is oblivious which makes him dangerous. Well I already knew that and I suspect Nancy did too, but this just makes it crystal clear. I am stunned. I wasn’t too sure that this was the time for Bushville, but I am now. This man is a monster.

Bush lifts wage rules for KatrinaPresident signs executive order allowing contractors to pay below prevailing wage in affected areas.

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…