[John Burns]

Just how much is the American Public going to take from the Bush/Cheney Administration?

Now I hear that two Halliburton subsidiaries have contracts for 16.6 million dollars, to do reconstruction work in the Gulf Coast area for damages due to Katrina. In addition, Mr. Bush earlier waived wage minimums for workers there so, these corporations will be getting low wage workers and a contract - unbelievable! Who is the lobbyist for one of the firms? None other than Joe Allbaugh, the former head of FEMA (and college roommate of Mr. Brown, current FEMA head). Looks very political to me.

Does Bush not know who he is appointing to these posts? Does Dick Cheney have an interest in this type thing?

Seems the Administration may have been late getting aid to the Katrina victims, but they certainly saw to it VERY early that Halliburton got it's spoils out of the hurricane disaster.

The real disaster here (in addition to Katrina) to me is the Bush Administration's decision to do whatever they want without any regard for what is good for the United States of America!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

[Gibble]

[marcus77]

I read something about that today on Wired.com:
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0...=wn_tophead_10

I was an odd place to find a story like that, and I wasn't going to mention it, but since you brought it up....

[Ciberblade]

16 Million? Are you kidding me with this stuff? I'm guessing that it is to repair damaged refineries in the gulf...and there are only two, maybe three companies world wide that can do some of the work. Should we give the job to France, or let US workers repair US equipment?

This is silly -- a damaged region that will cost Billions of dollars to repair, and you're upset over 16 Million....knee-jerk much?

[Ciberblade]

So...you are upset...and you don't even know the details?

[Ciberblade]

I'm trying to understand what you are saying...but you are not saying much that is not abrasive. You know so very little, yet project lots.

State your purpose, and try to use facts whenever possible

[John Burns]

I know enough to stop this discussion right now. It's not worth my time.

[Stoner]

Hi John...I do think your numbers are significantly off...but to a magnitude that has bearing to the coruption in today's government.
Nothing new but the magnitude....all past Prez's and Congress's pad their supporters.
Now it involves our own reconstruction.

Don't let some members here get you down.
They probably want you to go away so their right wing extremism seems main stream.....no doubt the lefties would be doing the same if Kerry was in the same spot funneling $$$$$$ to his supporters

[Mulderator]

Originally Posted by Ciberblade

16 Million? Are you kidding me with this stuff?

I was thinking the same thing--16 million--they'll spend that per day in in NO rebuilding--its peanuts in the grand scheme of things.

The irony is Haliburton is a blue-chip company--one of the best in the world if not the best as what they do, but if the liberals had their way, we'd have some half-arsed company from France or Germany (anyone but Haliburton) providing critical support to Iraq. I know one thing--from what I know of Haliburton and the competition, if I'm a soldier in Iraq, I want Haliburton and I don't give a damn if we have to pay a premuim to get them!

[izme]

Originally Posted by Mulder

I was thinking the same thing--16 million--they'll spend that per day in in NO rebuilding--its peanuts in the grand scheme of things.

The irony is Haliburton is a blue-chip company--one of the best in the world if not the best as what they do, but if the liberals had their way, we'd have some half-arsed company from France or Germany (anyone but Haliburton) providing critical support to Iraq. I know one thing--from what I know of Haliburton and the competition, if I'm a soldier in Iraq, I want Haliburton and I don't give a damn if we have to pay a premuim to get them!

Mulder...you are the absolute opposite of logic

[Stoner]

I see we have an opponent to the concept of free market enterprise on the boards today .....welcome Mulder ....

[Mulderator]

Originally Posted by Stoner

I see we have an opponent to the concept of free market enterprise on the boards today .....welcome Mulder ....

Debating Haliburton with Bush haters is like debating alien visitation with people who believe in such things. It really doesn't matter what the facts are, people who want to beleive in something badly enough will find what they need to justify it.

Like I said--if you were a soldier in Iraq, you'd want Haliburton.

[izme]

Originally Posted by Mulder

Debating Haliburton with Bush haters is like debating alien visitation with people who believe in such things. It really doesn't matter what the facts are, people who want to beleive in something badly enough will find what they need to justify it.

Like I said--if you were a soldier in Iraq, you'd want Haliburton.

Yahhhh they sure are a model company

SocialFunds.com -- Halliburton (ticker: HAL), the oilfield-services and construction company where Vice President Dick Cheney served as CEO from 1995 to 2000, has an uncanny penchant for landing lucrative but controversial government contracts. A broad survey of Halliburton's questionable practices, which includes operating in states that sponsor terrorism, artificially inflating its stock price, purchasing a company with huge asbestos lawsuits pending, and selling detonators for weapons of mass destruction to terrorist states, dates back to at least 1987 and continues into the present.

Read this:
http://www.halliburtonwatch.org/abou...hronology.html

[Mulderator]

[izme]

Dang Mulder...are ya desperate?

Read this:
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/20...?oneclick=true