"The Windfalls of War" Halliburton at the top

[lottie244]

http://www.publicintegrity.org/wow/resources.aspx?act=total
The Dems could never get away with this.

[mom cat]

1. Excellent information. Also check put the two relates studies

listed in the left hand column!

[DeepModem Mom]

2. Whoa! Thanks for posting -- nt

[G_j]

3. Amazing

and just what we expected from the beginning.

There must be some sort of laws somewhere that address war profiteering.

thanks for posting this

[struggle4progress]

5. Congress strips profiteering penalties from $87.5 billion Iraqi ...

... occupation bill

<snip>
The final measure enacted into law was approved only after being stripped of measures aimed at curtailing profiteering by politically connected corporations.
<snip>

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2003/nov2003/sena-n13.shtml


Mainstream press did cover the removal of war-profiteering language when the bill passed. So I don't know whether what legal issues are here. But there certainly are nice political issues.

[G_j]

9. well that answers that

they stripped away the measures aimed at curtailing profiteering.
big surprise:eyes: :wow: :eyes: not

[patdem]

4. The total for JUST these contractors is $51,007,517,346 !!!

Thats 51 Billion from our treasury to well connected corporations!!!
And VERY LITTLE has been done!!! :grr:

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

12. In other words,

the equivalent of healthcare for every man, woman and child in the US.

[lottie244]

6. Kicking for Sunday

Keeping it holy!

[indepat]

7. I wonder if taxpayers are getting full value for their tax dollars, if a

full accounting is being given for every tax dollar received by these favored firms in what are probably mostly no-bid, unlimited-cost-overrun contracts? God, surely these companies must salivate at the thought of war, the more the better and merrier one would suspect! But there I go being cynical again.

[jwirr]

8. Windfalls!

Even these corporations have to know that this cannot go on forever. According to Chalmers Johnson's book "Sorrows of Empire" there will come a time when we just plain cannot pay for this kind of nonsense. We are already borrowing from foreign countries and social programs to support this war. It appears that they either do not believe Johnson's evaluation, they believe the world will end before the bill is due or they just do not care about the United States. Maybe it is all three.

[G_j]

10. welcome to DU jwirr

I think it is the last option: they don't care..
plus they are insane

[indepat]

11. Welcome to DU jwirr. It's just a matter of time until the US reneges on

it obligations/defaults/goes bankrupt, for what can't go on forever won't. By then almost all of the real wealth in this nation will be concentrated among of a relative few. Sadly most politicians also know this, but continue their ruinous fiscal/tax policies notwithstanding the known consequences: But they all lie, claiming to be making America stronger, as if extreme economic/fiscal weakness does not make us less safe, less strong.

[slojim240]

13. Wow!!! Thanks for the post.

You give some good information, my friend.