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How is using our tax dollars to pay favored companies for no-bid contracts fiscally responsible?

Isn't small government about SAVING money by encouraging contractors to compete for their contracts so we can get the best work for the best deal? And isn't Bush supposedly a Republican who's supposed to be against big government and reckless spending of our tax dollars? Does he owe us major refunds for swindling us? Just because I don't know the names of most contractors that exist in the world, doesn't mean they don't exist. I know nothing about construction, yet I know there are many companies out there that are eager for private and government contracts. Haliburton has gotten preferential treatment for too long--it's about time they retire. And several smaller companies competing and proving themselves on a job is a lot better that one company to steal--and lose--our money and bungle the job.

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1. I assume you are talking about Haliburton.... please tell me... How many other companies do you know of that can do the work Haliburton does on the scale they do it on? Just let me know when you come up with one.... and Haliburton does employ How many Americans? I'll check back for your response. edit: Well now willow... how easy to find an article where a Demecrat Bush hater suspects foul play... shocking! Never saw that before? Lets see... that article was in 2003... yet nothing has come of it... hmmmm... perhaps no evidence of foul play... and the article... like DumDum failed to do any research to find which companies could be awarded jobs of this magnitude. Not saying Haliburton is the only one out there... but companies like this are few and far between... and I would rather give the business to an American based business with American employee's than a foreign company. Since we are fitting the bill for the war.. Oh... and one more thing... Slick Willy Bill Clinton awarded Haliburton no bid contracts as well... little research please... Your turn!
2. You have it all WRONG! $ 100, $1000, = "welfare" $ 1,000,000,000 = "incentive" Taking it away would be just another case of government interfering with business . Just ask Rush. I heard him say it* ! So it must be true. =)))) * about changing sugar subsidy from 18c/lb to 17c/lb ps Haliburton gets the contracts , in some cases , because the consulting firm(s) hired by the Pentagon , reccommends them as the best option . The consulting firm(s) ? You'll never guess . Yes , .... subsidiary of Halliburton. If there's nothing wrong , why'd they go after Bunnatine Green so hard?
3. do us all a favor "gotcha" and read this... http://us.oneworld.net/article/view/70154/1/ "These suspect contracts with Halliburton and other companies raise questions about the awarding of contracts to friends of the administration," says Sen. Richard Durbin (D) of Illinois. "Wasn't there someone in the room who said, 'This just doesn't look right.'?" Found another one for ya: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/04/25/60minutes/main551091.shtml "the earliest contracts were given to a few favored companies. And some of the biggest winners in the sweepstakes to rebuild Iraq have one thing in common: lots of very close friends in very high places." "Even before the first shots were fired in Iraq, the Pentagon had secretly awarded Halliburton subsidiary Kellogg, Brown & Root a two-year, no-bid contract to put out oil well fires and to handle other unspecified duties involving war damage to the country’s petroleum industry. It is worth up to $7 billion." Pretty easy to hide with a republican congress... http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/06/01/cheney.halliburton/ "With both houses of Congress controlled by President Bush's fellow Republicans, the prospect of any Cheney-Halliburton hearings appears unlikely." "This is the same Congress that during the Clinton administration would have five new investigations started by midday Monday, and just add to them all week long," Leahy said. "Now they won't hold hearings, no matter what it is -- if you have cost overruns or anything else -- they just refuse to hold hearings, but of course they should." Next?
4. Republicans! Democrats! One just as bad as the other. By the time any politician gets to be seriously in the running for the President of the United States, they are already owned and controlled by big money interests. Our government swindles us all of the time! "Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are." Benjamin Franklin, statesman, author, and inventor (1706-1790)