Political Quotes

“Actually there are two problems here. One is the fraudulent data. When you have a building in Washington, DC that is trying to determine construction projects and costs in Oklahoma, what you are doing is removing the two so far apart that you make fraud a very easy, very easily an occurrence. But furthermore, even if you have no fraud, what you have are extraordinarily high wage rates in places like Kentucky, places where if you were an individual, if you were a taxpayer, if you were going to construct something, you would never pay those construction wages. You would never pay those same level of construction wages. I might say that in Kentucky, when I looked over those wage scales, there were $28 an hour, $26 an hour. We are a poor State. You know, we have people that are working for minimum wage, that are working as hairdressers, that are working in gas stations, that are driving school buses, that are working on the assembly line at Ford Motor Co. None of those people make $28 an hour. And for them to pay their taxes and have their taxes pay people to build schools for their children at extraordinarily high wage rates is an absolute abuse of their tax dollars.”