Haliburton/KBR: Lookin' out for the bottom line

Stocks, hell, go for the dunking pond! If they drown, they're not a witch. Works for me.

 

Ye gods, the stupidity.

 

Just saw this on CNN. An Army investigator recommends changing soldier's manner of death from accidental to negligent homicide. Wow. Big money comin' down the pipe in this one.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/01/22/soldier.electrocuted/index.html

 

Let's just throw some of the top people off a cliff. If they live, then they are innocent.

 

What is truly a scam is that Halliburton/KBR will bill the government for say $100,000 in a cost-plus deal and then sub-contract out the service to the lowest bidder.

 

"Fillin' the ol' coffers . . . "

Gag.

 

Used to work freelance for a company that was bought by KBR... got paid well, then KBR decided they didn't use outside help... And my former boss there couldn't stand the KBR mouthpiece in the story... now I got nothin... so fuck 'em

 

Haliburton agrees to make downpayment on repaying war profiteering. Apparently they were bribing people for jobs in Nigeria.
(Reuters) Halliburton, the huge oil services company in Houston, said yesterday that it has agreed to pay $559 million to settle corruption charges with the U.S. government linked to its former subsidiary KBR.
Halliburton said it will pay $382 million on behalf of KBR over the next two years to the Department of Justice and will pay another $177 million to the Securities and Exchange Commission.

 

Awesome.

 

See, the war in Iraq wasn't just about the oil after all.

 

So let me get this straight.

We get a dozen pages of rightwing hand-wringing over how it looks that Michelle Obama may have received a six-figure raise when her husband was voted into the Senate.

But not a peep over the scores of billions of dollars we've poured into Halliburton/KBR - a company that still pays out dividends to the former Vice-President - based on a proposal written by that former Vice-President to privatize services within the military?

Incredible.

 

KBR was also the source of Lyndon Johnson's money on his "Path to Power" but I guess that's OK because he's a Democrat and his war killed many, many more people.



Rumsfeld is glad he doesn't have to deal with the likes of you anymore.