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    Dobbs and US SEnator: Americans being REPLACED by illegals

    Dobbs and US SEnator: Americans being REPLACED by illegals on military bases during Katrina clean up.

    This ran on October 24. Can anyone get a copy of the transcript? We need to raise hell about this asap.

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    Transcripts from Lou Dobbs Tonight can be found at the following website:
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    Re: Dobbs and US SEnator: Americans being REPLACED by illega

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    Dobbs and US SEnator: Americans being REPLACED by illegals on military bases during Katrina clean up.

    This ran on October 24. Can anyone get a copy of the transcript? We need to raise hell about this asap.

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    Geeez William I saw that and got worried. Looked like they were replacing Lou with an illegal.
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    I saw the interview with the electricians and Senator Landreaux. The employer needs to be removed from the program. This is outrageous!!

    I also felt at the time and still do that prevailing wage should not be lifted. This is a law that has ensured good wages are paid for publicly-funded work in accordance with our ideals. Workers taking on the difficult and dangerous tasks of work in a Disaster Zone should not be treated any differently that workers building an office building, a school, or any other facility or providing any other type of construction or service work for the US Government.

    Bush lifted it on Katrina. His Dad did the same thing during one of the Hurricanes during Bush One's administration...I believe it was Andrew.

    This is an insult to American Workers and robs them of the good wages they are entitled to.

    What happened with these workers in Louisiana is a disgrace.

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    DOBBS: And of course, under the waiver of the Davis-Bacon Act, prevailing wages are not even relevant here, thanks to the president's waiver.

    Congress is now set to vote as early as this week on a measure that would reinstate the Davis-Bacon Act on the Gulf Coast and force employers to pay the prevailing wage. Congressman George Miller of California is leading the fight to overturn President Bush's suspension of Davis-Bacon. He joins us tonight from Washington. Can you get your measure through Congress, a Congress run by Republicans?

    REP. GEORGE MILLER (D), CALIFORNIA: I think we can. I think we found a way in which we can present this to the Congress. We have strong bipartisan majority in favor of overturning what the president has done. We lost in the Education Committee last week on a party line vote. There will be another vote I believe in the Transportation Committee maybe later this week, and then on November 4th, we have a right, the parliamentarians in the Congress have told us we have a right to an up-or-down vote on the floor of the Congress, and I think at that time, the bipartisan majority that we have will speak to this, and we will overturn in the House what the president has done to undermine the wages of workers in the Gulf Coast area.

    DOBBS: At the point of which the federal government is giving cost-plus contracts, no-bid contracts out to the tune of billions of dollars, what sense in the world does it make to you, Congressman Miller, that this administration would be motivated to deny prevailing wages to workers in construction of the Gulf Coast?

    MILLER: Well, they just caved in to a group of right-wing ideologues that hate this law. They've hated it for the 30 years I've been in Congress. And the insult to the taxpayers and the insult to the workers was that at the same time, they were handing out no-bid contracts, which led to the abuses that you just had on the previous story, that Congressman LaTourette was calling attention to. That the contract awarded had nothing to do with the cost of labor and the benefits just flow to the bottom line of Halliburton and Shaw Industries and these others that immediately got no-bid contracts, and the workers had no protection for the wages that they would be employed at.

    DOBBS: Congressman George Miller, a good friend of working men and women in this country, we thank you for being here. And as you referred to Lisa Sylvester's story, Congressman, I'm sad to tell you, you ain't seen nothing yet, as the saying goes, from Louisiana. We'll be talking to Senator Mary Landrieu about the same issue with some remarkable people who were caught up in the same issue, Davis-Bacon.

    We thank you very much, Congressman Miller. We appreciate it.

    MILLER: Thank you.

    DOBBS: Coming up next here, more on the wage outrage in the Gulf. The two electricians who say they were hired to train their lower-paid, non-English-speaking replacements will be back with us, and they're back here with their senator, Senator Mary Landrieu, who spoke less than two hours ago on the Senate floor about stopping contractors from hiring illegal aliens to rebuild the Gulf Coast. It's something less, as you might expect, than a prevailing wage. Stay with us for that and a great deal more.

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    DOBBS: Just minutes ago on the floor of the U.S. Senate, Senator Mary Landrieu of Louisiana blasted American contractors who are hiring illegal aliens to help rebuild the Gulf Coast. Senator Landrieu demanded that American workers be hired for those jobs and at the prevailing wage, despite the president's waiver of Davis-Bacon.

    Just last week, illegal aliens were found working at the Belle Chasse Naval air station in Louisiana, after higher-paid American workers were fired.

    Senator Landrieu joins us now from Capitol Hill. Also joining us again, two of her constituents, Al Knight and Mack Moran, who were hired to supply electricians to rebuild Belle Chasse, but they claim after three weeks of training low-paid, non-English-speaking workers, they were fired. Thank you all for being here. It is good to see you again, Al and Mike, and Senator Landrieu. Your protest on the floor of the Senate, do you think you're going to be able to make headway here?

    SEN. MARY LANDRIEU (D), LOUISIANA: Well, Lou, I hope so. And thanks to programs like yours, the American people are really understanding or learning about a story that I don't think they can quite fathom. And that is that right here in America, on a U.S. military base, these workers, who were skilled and were asked to come to rebuild their own neighborhood, workers who had actually lost their home, were then ushered off the military base so that undocumented workers could take their place.

    I mean, Lou, we need jobs in the Gulf Coast. We need jobs in Louisiana. We have people that want to work, that are skilled to work, that want to rebuild their homes and their neighborhoods, and under the current policies, they're actually being prevented from doing so. It is an outrage.

    DOBBS: Senator, you wrote Michael Chertoff, the secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, saying in part that you received compelling evidence that immigration laws are being flagrantly disregarded. In point of fact, this administration waived documentation requirements for hiring. And Al Knight, Mike Moran, as you both know, those requirements put aside and prevailing wage was put aside. Where do you stand with the contractor, a subsidiary of Halliburton, BE&K, and your deal with them? The senator has taken up your cause here. Has it resulted in anything, Al?

    AL KNIGHT, KNIGHT ENTERPRISES: No, sir. We still remain out of work, and we're still out of work today. There's 75 guys that lost their jobs to those out-of-state illegal workers. Still don't have a job today. Some of them have gone back to work, but I still receive unemployment documents from the Department of Labor every day at my mail, through a reduction of force.

    DOBBS: Mike, Al, at no point during the last -- this is a statement from BE&K's -- from BE&K, referring to you all. Quote: "At no point during the last several weeks, did we ever replace workers from Louisiana with workers who were paid less. We released Knight Enterprises only when its work was substantially done. BE&K is eager to get the facts."

    So are we. Mike, Al, Senator, what are the facts?

    LANDRIEU: Well, Mike, you go ahead and answer, since you were the one that they asked to leave.

    DOBBS: Mike Moran?

    MIKE MORAN, GENERAL FOREMAN: Lou, yes, Lou, we were -- we were told that the job was substantially complete after being told it was a 20-month job. All we worked was 20 days. I don't see how anyone could...

    DOBBS: And the people you worked with, the people you trained, you said they were non-English-speaking. Do you have any reason to think that they were illegal aliens?

    MORAN: I have no way to verify it either way. Lou, but we weren't hired to train them. What they did is go and look at our work and try to duplicate it, which they were not successful at doing.

    DOBBS: Senator Landrieu, the issue here, you said you had proof that they're hiring illegal aliens. We do know that there is a federal investigation on this case and others down there. What is your expectation?

    LANDRIEU: Well, Lou, first of all, there are many good contractors, as you know, and many good business people in Louisiana trying to rebuild our state. But the issue is, we have federal policies that are actually encouraging the hiring of out-of-state workers, in some cases undocumented workers, to take the place of Americans right there in Louisiana and Mississippi, that are ready to rebuild their neighborhoods. And in this case, it happened to be this dastardly deed done on an American military base, which makes it even worse.

    The American taxpayers don't understand this, so, Lou, we're going to get to the bottom of it. We're asking for an investigation. But our American workers deserve better, and they want to work, and I think that we can get to the bottom of this and hopefully stop this practice.

    DOBBS: Senator Landrieu, we thank you. We join you, as I know Mike Moran and Al Knight do, in your wish. We thank you, Al and Mike. It is good to talk with you again as we try to learn more about what's going on down there. And hopefully, we will see justice done.

    KNIGHT: Thank you, Lou.

    DOBBS: Thanks to the efforts in part of Senator Landrieu and your own stalwart advocacy, gentlemen. Thank you very much.

    LANDRIEU: Thank you, Lou.

    DOBBS: And that of Congressman George Miller as well on the House side.

    Still ahead here, the results of our poll tonight. And we'll have a preview of what's coming up here tomorrow. Stay with us.

    (COMMERCIAL BREAK)

    DOBBS: The results of our poll tonight overwhelming. Ninety- seven percent of you say Homeland Security should immediately learn the identity and location of those whose visas have expired to assure national security.

    Thanks for being with us tonight. Please join us here tomorrow. Good night from New York. "ANDERSON COOPER 360" starting right now.
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    GO CONGRESS!!

    Overturn the Wackident's Waiver. What a disgusting thing to do to the American Worker, deprive them of prevailing wages that have been the law since the 30's.

    Oh, we're a bunch of Fat Cats Now in 2005 so say the Economists? Our growing economy? Things couldn't be better says the Wackident and his band of Wackiteers?

    But, we can't pay our American Workers prevailing wages to clean up and rebuild the Nightmare from Katrina?

    Oh...but we can Cruise Ship owners hundreds of millions of dollars that the "refugees" wouldn't even accept and sit empty on the sea?

    Oh...but we can over-pay Halliburton billions due to "accounting errors"?

    Reverse the Wackident's Waiver. Who gave him the right to Waive anyhow? THAT needs to be changed too.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Judy
    GO CONGRESS!!

    Overturn the Wackident's Waiver. What a disgusting thing to do to the American Worker, deprive them of prevailing wages that have been the law since the 30's.

    Oh, we're a bunch of Fat Cats Now in 2005 so say the Economists? Our growing economy? Things couldn't be better says the Wackident and his band of Wackiteers?

    But, we can't pay our American Workers prevailing wages to clean up and rebuild the Nightmare from Katrina?

    Oh...but we can Cruise Ship owners hundreds of millions of dollars that the "refugees" wouldn't even accept and sit empty on the sea?

    Oh...but we can over-pay Halliburton billions due to "accounting errors"?

    Reverse the Wackident's Waiver. Who gave him the right to Waive anyhow? THAT needs to be changed too.

    Just to help you Judy

    Oh but we can spend 286 billion on a Highway bill loaded with PORK.

    Oh but we can spend billions on an Energy plan, that gives BIG OIL 9 billion in incentives. Even though they are making recorded profits.

    Oh but we can give 150 million to the Mexican Government to help in water treatment.

    Oh but we can give 10 million to local businesses in Mexico City.

    Oh but we can sign an agreement that 140 million of out Social Security will go to beef up the social securtiy of Mexico.

    Should i go on.
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    I totally agree that the PRESIDENT should NOT have the right to waive the Davis Bacon Act. That should be required to come before Congress.

    That was the second time Lou had the two electricians on his show and, the first time, they described how they helped TEACH those MEXICANS who were SUPPOSED to be HELPERS how to understand rudimentary English. And, what did they do??? They watched the electricians do their jobs and decided they could do them just as well so the electricians, who had been TOLD that this would be a TWENTY MONTH job were let go after a few weeks and the Illegals took over. This is unconscionable.

    Not only did the President suspend Davis Bacon, he waived the necessity for documentation just so the Mexicans could come in there and do the jobs that the RESIDENTS OF NEW ORLEANS could have and WOULD have done.

    SOMETHING MUST BE DONE ABOUT THIS BULL.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Scubayons
    Quote Originally Posted by Judy
    GO CONGRESS!!

    Overturn the Wackident's Waiver. What a disgusting thing to do to the American Worker, deprive them of prevailing wages that have been the law since the 30's.

    Oh, we're a bunch of Fat Cats Now in 2005 so say the Economists? Our growing economy? Things couldn't be better says the Wackident and his band of Wackiteers?

    But, we can't pay our American Workers prevailing wages to clean up and rebuild the Nightmare from Katrina?

    Oh...but we can Cruise Ship owners hundreds of millions of dollars that the "refugees" wouldn't even accept and sit empty on the sea?

    Oh...but we can over-pay Halliburton billions due to "accounting errors"?

    Reverse the Wackident's Waiver. Who gave him the right to Waive anyhow? THAT needs to be changed too.

    Just to help you Judy

    Oh but we can spend 286 billion on a Highway bill loaded with PORK.

    Oh but we can spend billions on an Energy plan, that gives BIG OIL 9 billion in incentives. Even though they are making recorded profits.

    Oh but we can give 150 million to the Mexican Government to help in water treatment.

    Oh but we can give 10 million to local businesses in Mexico City.

    Oh but we can sign an agreement that 140 million of out Social Security will go to beef up the social securtiy of Mexico.

    Should i go on.
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    sign an agreement that 140 million of out Social Security will go to beef up the social securtiy of Mexico.
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    Thank you Scubayons and those were excellent points!!



    Bootsie, and you are so right...only Congress should be able to waive Davis-Bacon and even then....why would they ever need to? Like Scubayons pointed out, there is "money" or "debt" for everybody else, why not for the American Workers?

    This is all Bull. And I cringed when the Wackident announced it and wanted a bucket of tomatoes when I heard his announcement that he had taken a call from Vicente Fox and assured him that the 40,000 illegal Mexicans in New Orleans would be left alone and entitled to disaster relief right along with American Citizens. 40,000 just in New Orleans. Apparently Vicente Fox keeps a list of his illegals so we should subpoena his lists.

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