Herald.com - Your Miami Everything Guide: "WASHINGTON - The Labor Department is giving employers tips on how to avoid paying overtime to some of the 1.3 million low-income workers who would become eligible under new rules expected to be finalized early this year.

The department's advice comes even as it touts the $895 million in increased wages that it says those workers would be guaranteed from the reforms.

Among the options for employers: cut workers' hourly wages and add the overtime to equal the original salary, or raise salaries to the new $22,100 annual threshold, making them ineligible.

The department says it is merely listing well-known choices available to employers, even under current law.

''We're not saying anybody should do any of this,'' said Labor Department spokesman Ed Frank."

This is unbelievable. Maybe this is how Bush told his daughters about drinking. "Don't do it, but here are some ways to drink and not get caught."

No, that analogy sucks. Here is a closer one. "Racism is wrong, and redlining is wrong, but here are some ways to exclude blacks from your subdivision and keep them out of your work place. We aren't telling you to do this, mind you, but here it is." Or, "we sure value the environment, but here are some ways to dump waste and not get fined." One way? Elect Bush.