Question about Halliburton Contracts

[madame defarge]

Does anyone know what percentage of all contracts in New Orleans went to Halliburton? What about Iraq -- what percentage of contracts when to Halliburton? Someone I know claims that it's less than 1%... I suspect the number is MUCH higher than that, but don't know where to even begin to prove it...
Thanks.

[KerryOn]

1. It could be less than 1%

As far as I know Halliburton was hired only to do the clean up on the US Navel bases that were damaged by Katrina. (This was a no-bid contract.) I have not heard of Halliburton being used for reconstruction and repair on the flood walls, levees or anything else for that matter.

http://www.infowars.com/articles/new_orleans/halliburton_hired_storm_cleanup.htm

Bush changed the law for the prevailing wage, so now contractors can hire cheap unskilled labor for the NO clean up. Contractors are coming in from all over the country and they are hiring immigrant workers and paying them very little. (Bush is a cheap skate when it comes to the people effected by this disaster and those cleaning it up, but he will spend billions when he can find a way to put some of it back into his or Chaney's pocket.)