Ho Ho Ho Happy Halliburton Days
The long list of waste, fraud, bribery and other abuses associated with Halliburton’s Iraq contracts now fill volumes. Vigilant oversight by Rep. Henry Waxman’s office and Pentagon investigators—with the help of company whistleblowers—have uncovered attempts to charge taxpayers $45 per case of soda, $100 per bag of laundry, $10,000 a day to use five-star hotels in Kuwait. (Meanwhile, the troops are sweating it out in tents in the desert). There’s been $167 million worth of price gouging for imported gasoline, and $186 million charged for meals that were never served to the troops, and a $6 million kickback to two employees (fired by the company) from a subcontractor.
War-Profiteering for Fun and Profit
In 1 year, Halliburton's stock doubles as troop deaths double
There are unverified reports that Halliburton now charges troops $5/hr.
to e-mail home. Watch for updates.
Now here's a "fleece market" that taxpayers can be proud of.
Better call my broker. Now may be the time to sell Halliburton shares?
1 comment:
Obviously VP Cheney isn't buying his soda at Wal-Mart. If he is, the cost of delivery is substantial.
Isn't interesting that whiile this is going on, there are groups of people heatedly badgering their elected officals over what songs are sung in one school's Christmas program or what to call the Christmas tree at the state capitol or whether of not we can carry a concealed weapon or whether or not we need a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage. But then again, those same protesters are what Bush likes to call his base. I believe Hitler called them his "brown shirits."
Guns, gays and God...the three chords of the right-wing chorus.
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