Hypocrites in the Whitehouse (can it get worse?)

“On her 10th trip to the Gulf Coast since Hurricane Katrina, first lady Laura Bush on Monday touted a federal program to help young people find work and… Bush was joined in New Orleans by Labor Secretary Elaine Chao in announcing a $20 million federal grant to the National Urban League to train out-of-school and at-risk young people.”

And this, at a time when it comes to light that her husband’s administration is also responsible for the displacement and firing of “willing AMERICAN workers” in order to “accommodate” cheapskate Corporations fleecing taxpayers by hiring illegal aliens – all with the “green light” from Bush.

Arrival of Aliens Ousts U.S. Workers, by Jerry Seper (The Washington Times 4/10/06; front page, column left, below the fold): An Alabama employment agency that sent 70 laborers and construction workers to job sites in that state in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina says the men were sent home after just two weeks on the job by employers who told them “the Mexicans had arrived” and were willing to work for less. ……Linda Swope, who operates Complete Employment Services Inc. in Mobile, Ala., told The Washington Times last week that the workers — whom she described as U.S. citizens, residents of Alabama and predominantly black — had been “urgently requested” by contractors hired to rebuild and clear devastated areas of the state, but were told to leave three job sites when the foreign workers showed up.

Government estimates put at 400,000 the number of jobs lost in the Gulf region as a result of Katrina, which displaced more than 1.5 million people, and many of those workers left the area to seek employment elsewhere because available construction, laborer and cleanup jobs in Alabama, Louisiana and Mississippi had been filled by foreign workers, including illegal aliens…

President Bush last week signed the Katrina Emergency Assistance Act of 2006, which extended for 13 weeks unemployment compensation benefits to more than 140,000 residents of the Gulf states who were displaced from their jobs by Katrina. Their benefits, funded by FEMA, had expired March 4.

Would-be employers in Alabama, Louisiana and Mississippi, awash in cleanup and reconstruction jobs, faced little in the way of legal problems in hiring the illegal aliens after Katrina because the Department of Homeland Security temporarily suspended the sanctioning of employers who hired workers unable to document their citizenship.

Mr. Bush also had suspended the Davis-Bacon Act, which requires local contractors to pay “prevailing” wages, in the areas hit by Katrina to encourage reconstruction and cleanup.

“The men we sent to jobs in Alabama were local fellows looking for work, men who needed jobs,” Mrs. Swope said. “After driving 50 miles to the work sites where they had been promised $10 an hour, they discovered the employers had found substitutes who were willing to work for less.”

Now, doesn’t that make you real happy and proud to be an American citizen? Chances are that FEMA is probably housing and feeding these illegal “scabs” to boot.

The article doesn’t say the cost of 13 weeks of extended unemployment benefits for 140,000 displaced workers but @ $250/week, it’s another cool 455 million of your tax dollars so willing workers don’t need to be bothered with going to work. Must make the Prez feel a lot less guilty about his record of encouraging the flooding of the labor pool with Mexicans – the “backbone of our economy” that is breaking the back of American labor.

Oh-well, I guess that is just one of the realities of “the new world order” that black America is going to have to adjust to.

© C. H. McMillan