Department For Ripping Off Subjugated Peoples. Land Management, Fish and Wildlife, Indian Affairs, Surface Mining, Geological Survey, National Parks and Minerals Management are all areas where very bad things are being done in our name. The Bureau of Indian Affairs has always been a place where bad intentions followed by bad decisions and bad planning, added to bad implementations resulted in awful outcomes. Mission accomplished.
Bogus regional pay rate arguments aside, how could any decent person assert, along with the wealthy of the island, that it would be better to maintain lower rates of pay? Oh yeah, this is Delay and Abramoff, et al. Decency cannot be mentioned in the same sentence with them. If the decision-makers were acting in concert with anyone investing in the islands manufacturing, then a conflict of interest existed, if not actual collusion.
http://edition.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/05/09/real.delay/
"...Moved by the sworn testimony of U.S. officials and human-rights advocates that the 91 percent of the workforce who were immigrants -- from China, the Philippines, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh -- were being paid barely half the U.S. minimum hourly wage and were forced to live behind barbed wire in squalid shacks minus plumbing, work 12 hours a day, often seven days a week, without any of the legal protections U.S. workers are guaranteed, Murkowski wrote a bill to extend the protection of U.S. labor and minimum-wage laws to the workers in the U.S. territory of the Northern Marianas.
So compelling was the case for change the Alaska Republican marshaled that in early 2000, the U.S. Senate unanimously passed the Murkowski worker reform bill.
But one man primarily stopped the U.S. House from even considering that worker-reform bill: then-House Republican Whip Tom DeLay."
There is no such thing as 'piling on' with these folk. These are people who wish only to exploit the world for their benefit. I think we have to always connect even those dots which obviously are related.