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Its a good thing that you listed the companies that are actually working on the cleanup. The point i was making is that none of these companies could individually manage the cleanup, and that would leave the US as a general contractor
This was taken from a list of the top 100 construction firms in US, someone stated that firms as such didn't exist in New Orleans, a town that recieves the lions share of commercial shipping of US ports.
For someone to state as they did that Halliburton is the only kid on the block is
not accurate.
I got no beef with Halliburton I do not think that they are corrupt.
I WORK FOR BECHTEL SAIC.It just seems suspect to me that the a company the VP has a vested financial interest in should benefit so enormously. Seems to be at best an ethics violation from my Bechtel morals and ethics code training.
Or the fact that the two largest campaign contributors recieve largest IRAQ contracts.
Why should public money go to private coporate entities. It is illegal for public funds to be diverted to private schools.
Capitalism 101 when poor business models are propped up by subsidies that
creates ineffieciencies in economic market. When inferior business models
fail as a result in true economic competition this is good for consumers.
If I can buy catfish from Vietnam for $0.25/lb as oppose to homegrown for
$ 1.00/lb then I should buy Veitnamese catfish.
IF SWA can fly me from Boston to LA for $ 198.00 and American or Delta cant beat price or service fly SWA
This is the basis of our economic system if you cant compete get out of business
service then I fly SWA.
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From an accounting perspective, a government program is a liability, while a change in the tax rate would be increasing revenue. They are different animals. That what i was saying, and thats what im still saying.
WTF, save the BS life is a liability with two constants taxation and death.
Taxes are for public works not private profiteering period simple.
Whether it be Subway, FEMA, High School or NASA.
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Im simply defending the choice of halliburton, claiming that while this may be considered a case of cronyism, its not an outright joke. It isnt like the US hired Jeb Bush's sons lawn care business to clean up the city. They hired a large resource managing company from near NO that has done work on this scale before, and who they are currently employing to do work for them in Iraq. You may not like the company, and it may be bad, but it wasnt wholly inappropriate to select them
Dude I been a contractor on a federal contract subcontracted to Bechtel for a few years now. I cant complain pay is good, but a wolf is still a wolf no matter how you dress it, and I have come to realize the inner workings of the "corporate hustle " And nothing is wrong with it when it does not rely primarily on public tax dollars that only increase shareholder wealth not the public domain.
I am not begging anyone to agree with me just open your eyes and think with your own F*ing brain.
It easy just to say that same BS with no basis in actual fact that only represents
common american sterotypes of whatever the popular type is for the moment.
Example: your buddy(
Pug_ster) over in the Racism thread everything he spews is based on emotional propoganda. He sounds like an obsessed american Taliban frankly. From his comments I kind draw some generalizations from him.
One being that his parents probabaly dont have college educations, he probably stays in the same small town his grandparents were born and died, and he probably is at or just below national poverty level.
I guess that this is a far worser punishment than anything the (blacks, mexicans,arabs, or jews) could do to him.
