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Here weeeee....gooooooooooooo......commies all....
Good Lord, what is it going to take to sink these freaks? I’ve got some idea’s...but gees, there must be a way with a great moral ending which enlightens all of the poor souls following the freak-a-zoid agenda.
Harm?
Yeah, putting them out of business will 'harm' them.
Folks, this is what the obyummer has been working for for 15-20 years.
this is the great 'redistribution' of hard working Americans money into the pockets of those who hardly work.
And through one of the most corrupt organization ever existed - and even FUNDED by us.
Socialism: using peoples money to enslave them.
If we continue with Obamunism, a "Living Wage" will be defined as a 5-pound sack of flour, or perhaps a small bundle of carrots or maybe a can of Spam, if you have the correct ration coupon for the particular day of the week.
I wonder which will prove more important - living wage or minority ownership?
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All Fed bid spec's already require 'Prevailing Wages' for non union workers but this could lead to outright bloodshed.
Right now when there are Union Contractors and non-union contractors on the same project there's 'problems'. Verbal jibes and letter writing about voiding warranties.And then there's the teeny fact that the normal Bidders won't bid on Gubmint Contracts any more. As it is Three 'Qualified' Bids are required for Public Bids, or the process starts all over again.Add into the mix, this 'living wage' for some person, say an ex felon and Acorn contractor right out of the slammer, with a 6th grade education, no training at all and making the same as both of the other contractors.
Bullets will start flying.
This proposal shows an utter lack of understanding on the sheer number of contract actions the federal government puts out on a yearly basis. All one has to do is go into the Federal Purchasing Data base to see the number of actions. For FY-07 over 9 million contract actions were reported with a value in excess of $440b. Today it is probably over 10m actions in excess of $500b. However, about 20% of all contract actions are not being reported in the Federal Purchasing Data base. So the total number is much larger. For example in 2007 the Veteran’s Administration reported almost 4m contract actions with a value of $12b. They felt the numbers were not accurate and brought in a private firm to document the spending. The final spend number was over $14b. This is just the tip of the iceberg. Therefore, if the Department of Labor is going to be the gate keeper to ensure those contract actions to commercial companies for goods and services comply with the proposed rules, our government will shut down. Our agencies do a poor job of contracting for goods and services and the contracting officers are swamped with work. This proposal makes a poor situation even worse. This will slow down the issuance of contracts and will put many small businesses out of business. This includes many Service Disabled Veteran Owned Small Business, 8(a) firms and Native American Tribes, not to mention the Ability One (NIB/NISH) businesses as well. All government set aside, protected business entities. I own a small business that works with the Federal Agencies in driving down their costs for commercial services and services by leveraging their spending and outsourcing non-core functions. The program is highly effective (we actually save the agencies money) and one of the chief beneficiaries is these set aside businesses. All I can say is who let the children in the run the government.