White House Threatens To Veto `Homes For Heroes` Housing Bill

[DogPoundPup]

Source: Dow Jones newswires

WASHINGTON -(Dow Jones)- The White House threatened to veto legislation that would provide housing assistance to poor veterans, calling the bill "well intentioned," but flawed.


The measure, expected to be considered by the House Wednesday, would make rental vouchers available to homeless vets, create a new position at the Department of Housing and Urban Development to deal with veterans' issues, and provide assistance to private nonprofit groups to expand housing for low-income veterans.


In a statement of administration policy, the White House's Office of Management and Budget said the Homes for Heroes Act would duplicate programs already in place at HUD. It said HUD awarded more than $730 million to projects for homeless vets last year, while the Veterans Administration expects to spend more than $300 million this year.


The administration's primary gripe with the bill, however, is that it would apply prevailing wage requirements to the construction of units with funds authorized by the legislation. The White House has long opposed attempts to expand the so-called Davis-Bacon wage requirements.

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[Jefferson23]

1. When you look at the Davis Beacon wage requirements you can

see why this prick doesn't like it.

[Dr.Phool]

6. I believe that's Davis-Bacon.

[jmondine]

14. Here's a test to see if HUD is adequate for homeless vets

If there are still homeless vets, it's not.
End... of... story

[crimsonblue]

2. he's going to veto because he doesn't want to pay prevailing wages?

What a fucking douchebag, to be blunt. IPU forbid we provide just and fair compensation to people. Nope, we can't have that. We need to pay the serfs less, while tossing more and more billions at the feudal KBR Gods.

[saigon68]

3. He's an Insult to honest hardworking Douchbags

[crimsonblue]

4. he probably doesn't even use a douche...

he's one of those pretentious douches that uses a bidet.... fucking douchebag.

[Javaman]

11. You are assuming a lot by even thinking he* cleans himself. nt

[Political Heretic]

12. ....he's just a bag. :P

[lonestarnot]

5. I hope that fucker has to suffer before he dies.

[guruoo]

7. The Davis-Bacon Act...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davis-Bacon_Act

'The Davis-Bacon Act of 1931 is a United States federal law which established the requirement for paying prevailing wages on public works projects. All federal government construction contracts, and most contracts for federally assisted construction over $2,000, must include provisions for paying workers on-site no less than the locally prevailing wages and benefits paid on similar projects.

The act is named after its Republican sponsors, James "Puddler Jim" Davis, a Senator from Pennsylvania and a former Secretary of Labor under three presidents, and Representative Robert L. Bacon of Long Island, New York.'

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'In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, House Representatives Jeff Flake, Tom Feeney, Marilyn Musgrave, and other members of the House Republican Study Committee (RSC) urged President Bush to temporarily suspend the Davis-Bacon Act in order to expedite the reconstruction of the Gulf Coast.<11> <12> President George W. Bush then issued proclamation 7924 to indefinitely suspend the provisions of 40 U.S.C. 3141-3148 (the Davis–Bacon Act) in designated areas in the States of Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, and Mississippi, the areas most heavily hit by the hurricane.'

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[Selatius]

8. Corporatists have always detested the Davis-Bacon Act because of the prevailing-wages requirement.

Corporate types always want to keep labor costs as low as possible, the lowest if possible. However, Davis-Bacon made it so that if they contract with the federal government, they can't pay below a certain floor it establishes, which means they don't get to squeeze workers as hard as they could have before 1931. That pisses them off.

[BayjanDem]

9. This is beyond evil

This is...is this how we treat ours? :argh:

[Danger Mouse]

10. Scum. Scum. That's all he is.

[librechik]

13. "If we can't use slave labor to build it, it ain't getting built!"

Who the Fuck ARE WE???????

[jmowreader]

15. There's one HUGE problem with Shrub's argument...

"Prevailing wages" ain't what they used to be.

The prevailing wage for contracts on Fort Bragg is $9 per hour. For that you need five years experience and your own tools.

[MadMaddie]

16. Let's face it....this legislation that would help soldiers and their

families will not pass until Obama is President. McCain will do nothing for the soldiers.

* would rather see our soldiers just like our NO residents live in those shitty formaldehyde trailers.

This administration is anti-American and I don't know what more it takes for the rest of America.