Friday, September 09, 2005
New Slave Market
"If it wasn't bad enough that Halliburton has been given a nice fat no-accountability contract for Gulf states cleanup, President George W. Fuck the Poor Bush has given Halliburton execs another way to stuff their pockets with federal money.
From overcharging military personnel for meals in Kuwait to inflating the price of fuel it provide to Iraq to $6.3 million in kickbacks that Halliburton employees took from a Kuwaiti contractor to cost-plus contracts, Halliburton has been gouging the American taxpayer ever since the Bush Administration came into office and opened the treasury doors to Cheney's company, saying "Take what you want."
Now he's issued an executive order allowing Halliburton and other companies the government may hire to do the cleanup and reconstruction to pay below the prevailing wage to the grunts who are actually going to have to do the work, allowing executives and retirees (like Cheney) to keep more of the money."
--from Brilliant at Breakfast
From overcharging military personnel for meals in Kuwait to inflating the price of fuel it provide to Iraq to $6.3 million in kickbacks that Halliburton employees took from a Kuwaiti contractor to cost-plus contracts, Halliburton has been gouging the American taxpayer ever since the Bush Administration came into office and opened the treasury doors to Cheney's company, saying "Take what you want."
Now he's issued an executive order allowing Halliburton and other companies the government may hire to do the cleanup and reconstruction to pay below the prevailing wage to the grunts who are actually going to have to do the work, allowing executives and retirees (like Cheney) to keep more of the money."
--from Brilliant at Breakfast
