One thins is sure and certain, there will always be someone crying foul, regardless of the situation.
As far as wages go, in my experience, the guys I have seen working construction on jobs that paid "prevailing" wages, were always making far more than the guys on any other site. Personally I don't see where the Government has any right to force a contractor to pay their employees anything beyond minimum wage. That's not to say minimum wage is what I consider fair wages for skilled labor, but if the workers are getting paid on par with their skills, and on par with others in the industry, then who is the Government to tell them to pay the guys more, ultimately at taxpayers expense?
That all said, when the Government quits wasting money on projects, then there might be money left to do more of them. Case in point is a bridge right down the road from me that was redone some years back. In this case it was a combined state and federal project. They came in, filled a bottom to build up a road bed for close to 100 yards, and about 6 to 8 feet high, poured concrete retaining walls, paved the new road,and then built a nice new bridge. The new bridge even straightened a relatively dangerous curve that existed just as you came off the old bridge.
Once the new bridge was in place, they tour out the old one. Then, when we all thought they were through, they built a brand new bridge, right where the old one stood, curve and all. Once it was done they went in and tore out the first new bridge they had built, busted up all that new concrete, and gave away all the fill that had been used to build up the road bed.
Turns out with the feds involved the 'design' of the bridge couldn't be changed more than a certain percentage. This meant that old bridge had to be rebuilt in the same place, and basically as close to the old design as possible, but within the newer building codes. This meant that they had to build the two bridges in order to keep the road open, and comply with the requirements to get the necessary funding to do the job. In other words it cost twice as much to do the job as it should have.....so the money needed to repair another bridge, that really needed repair somewhere else, got wasted building a temporary bridge that was better designed, and better suited for the site than the one they eventually built.
In the end it's all about Governmental WASTE at the highest levels.
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