Posted on 03/29/2012 5:01:57 PM PDT by RichSr
I HAVE already e-mailed my Cong Man, Boehner, Brent Bozell, and a host of others; will you all call/e-mail and pester the cong people? Has anyone ever heard of the Davis Bacon Act? Just think of what it “does”. Take a look around you; See that highway work? See those men lazing in the sun? They are the byproduct of Davis Bacon. Another is the TIME that it takes to work on a Davis Bacon job. In Covington, GA there have been portions of streets, including intersections that have taken years to complete, when they are eventually completed. I am asking Congress to start making every law a sunshine law. What that should mean is that every law on the books should die after it has been in the law three years. That should give time to see how every law works so the general public has a chance to evaluate it. AND these laws should be retroactive because we already know how Davis Bacon works! Look in your neighborhood! Compare what is happening NATIONWIDE.
Has anyone ever heard of the Davis Bacon Act? Just think of what it “does”. Take a look around you; See that highway work? See those men lazing in the sun? They are the byproduct of Davis Bacon. Another is the TIME that it takes to work on a Davis Bacon job. In Covington, GA there have been portions of streets, including intersections that have taken years to complete, when they are eventually completed. I am asking Congress to start making every law a sunshine law. What that should mean is that every law on the books should die after it has been in the law three years. That should give time to see how every law works so the general public has a chance to evaluate it. AND these laws should be retroactive because we already know how Davis Bacon works! Look in your neighborhood! Compare what is happening NATIONWIDE.
Shouldn’t you at least explain what the “Davis Bacon Act” says? (A hint: it involves the phrase “prevailing wage.”) And how exactly the law makes public construction projects employ lazy people and take longer to complete? You may be correct, but a little bit of information would be nice if you expect people to agree with you.
And I believe that you mean that all laws should have a “sunset provision” (meaning they expire after X amount of time unless they are repassed), not that theu should all be “sunshine laws” (which refers to laws that require that certain information be publicly available).
Follow the link below to my article of August 25, 2011 in American Thinker titled Black Americans and the Battered Voter Syndrome. Davis Bacon is covered in good detail.
http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/08/black_voters_and_the_battered_voter_syndrome.html
If you just now woke up, congratulations! If you have been unaware of this for any part of your adult life, shame on you.
I fail to see how the Davis Bacon act has anything to do with “men lazing in the sun” or the amount of time a project takes.
Have you even read the act?
Let me paraphrase it for you.
The Davis Bacon act forces companies working on federally funded construction jobs to pay a “prevailing wage” it is generally at or above the local union scale. It includes benefits and fringes,all in a “lump sum per hour.”
This levels the playing field when bidding on jobs.
It’s the difference in a company using $10.00 an hour illegal alien labor and maximizing their profit margin or
Paying hardworking American craftsman a living wage with insurance for their families and a pension when they get old.
Where would you rather see your tax dollar go?
Normally, I am in favor of anything that includes bacon. This is one of those exceptions.
Howie Carr has said that the motto of Davis-Bacon workers is “Never ever, ever, for any reason, don’t ever kill the job.”
Certainly not to vastly inflated contracts paying a mandatory excessive scale well above the private market. Please take your 'living wage" BS to DU or some other socialist website, noob. You signed up yesterday to lay that "living wage" stuff on us? Really?
O K
I stand partially corrected. I still would like to see the union bosses “busted”
In early ‘64 I was the sacrifice.
I was always a hard working man.
I did every job as if for Jesus; even before I met HIM as my Savior./
I was twice “the sacrificial lamb” for co’s that cared not.
I see employees (I can’t call most of them workers, as they don’t) I see most standing, holding a shovel, or some tool they are holding, but not using, on every job when on Highways, Schools, municipal jobs etc.
It is the same wherever I have been.
CT, N Y, TX, GA, PA, N J
I lived and worked in each of these states’ there ALWAYS were many more people than needed, and Waste was rampant.
I stand PARTIALLY corrected.
See my reply.
IF there were a way to stop all the EXTRA union boss benefits, and to have employees be workers as well as employees, i would ...
I have no choce anyway.
Sorry to bother you .
I have read this reply several times and I have no idea what you are trying to say.
MY REPLY:
I stand corrected.
I could not get my head around my ancient (1964) anger of being shafted by Lasko Metal Fabricating Co for making me to be the one shafted because I was instrumental in getting a union into Lasko Mfg.
I was wrong about Davis Bacon,
But I still think the unions have too much power. AND they abuse it.
I watched the recall effort and the abuses in Wisconsin.
That is ... despicable.
AND WHO has to pay for the repairs?
The union should!
MY REPLY:
I stand corrected.
I could not get my head around my ancient (1964) anger of being shafted by Lasko Metal Fabricating Co for making me to be the one shafted because I was instrumental in getting a union into Lasko Mfg.
I was wrong about Davis Bacon,
But I still think the unions have too much power. AND they abuse it.
I watched the recall effort and the abuses in Wisconsin.
That is ... despicable.
AND WHO has to pay for the repairs?
The union should!
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