rainbow4321
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Sun Sep-11-05 05:46 PM
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Contractors get $2000 per **week** to clean up post-storm |
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Relative of mine works for a company that has been given a Corp of Engineer contract. After getting a shitload of vaccinations he and his co-workers will be sent to Miss. and LA. He says being exposed to potential toxins is worth it for all the $$ that they will be making. Last time his friends went on a FEMA clean up assignment <in Florida> they made $2000/WEEK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
So much for that Labor Dept lady saying how many jobs this all will create for the locals..it's all going to out of state workers/companies! How fucked up is it that FEMA is $tingy with the survivors and yet their contractors will be making $8000/month???????
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Sun Sep-11-05 05:48 PM
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1. Are they getting paid in debit cards? |
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Sun Sep-11-05 05:50 PM
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4. Indian tribe/nation owned company from Oklahoma..... |
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Edited on Sun Sep-11-05 05:55 PM by rainbow4321
Don't know how they were "picked". If THEY are getting this kind of deal, imagine what kind of sweet deal Hallibuton is getting.
And no, not all the workers are Native American so it is not like the $$ is going to help their community..some of these guys make $60,000 plus bonuses. They do alot of work in Texas <gee, surprise>, also.
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Sun Sep-11-05 05:49 PM
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3. That's only the Halliburton overseers |
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The actual people doing the work will get paid less than prevailing wage, thanks to Bush's order.
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Sun Sep-11-05 05:52 PM
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5. What's the name of the company? |
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Sun Sep-11-05 05:58 PM
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7. Muscogee Nation Business Enterprise Construction Services. n/t |
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Sun Sep-11-05 05:53 PM
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6. Why not hire the displaced men of NO to do this clean up and pay them |
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Sun Sep-11-05 06:53 PM
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12. Because one needs to be |
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qualified to do it. Heavy machinery isn't something that your average unemployed person knows how to handle. The clean-up takes people with talents that most people lack.
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Sun Sep-11-05 06:19 PM
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8. No prevailing wage this time |
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Better let him know that. Also, alot of these assignments are 12 hours a day, 7 days a week, just like wildland firefighting although they make about $1,200 a week for basic crew. And yes, various work gets contracted out annually and those workers get dispatched first.
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Sun Sep-11-05 06:21 PM
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9. Those jobs should go to displaced N.O. ex-residents and there should |
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be no (or a very small, reasonable) profit component.
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Sun Sep-11-05 06:44 PM
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10. bush continues to loot our national treasury. |
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Sun Sep-11-05 06:47 PM
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who are in the local carpenters union. They make $2000 a week. That's not unusual.
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Sun Sep-11-05 07:05 PM
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13. Does this not resemble Baghdad, Iraq? Have the Bush Administration |
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declared War on the US?
It appears increasingly obvious.
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Sun Sep-11-05 07:06 PM
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14. I have to point out that the 2,000 per week PROBABLY was in |
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Florida in an election year.
Probably brought a lot of Bush voters.....
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