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So while watching the news extremely late last night, a little blurb came through about Bush signing an order to suspend the Davis-Bacon Act in the area affecting Katrina. The idea behind the Davis-Bacon act, according to this website is that the Davis-Bacon act ensures that “the federal agency that funds or financially assists Davis-Bacon covered construction projects to ensure that the proper Davis-Bacon wage determination(s) is/are applied to such construction contracts(s).” Or in understandable English, it basically says that there is a set minimum (usually the previous wage rate in the area) that a company can pay workers on projects. However, now that Bush has signed an executive order suspending the Act, the companies gaining government contracts are free to pay workers whatever amounts they want. I personally think this is a horrible idea, as a good portion of the people living in those areas were already considered working-poor. So now that their wages are going to be cut, the exact people who did not get help originally, and the people who are without housing and places to call home, are going to get hit again with lower wages and an even harder time attempting to survive. Sad isn't.