I was glad to hear the bidding negotiations for rebuilding Iraq would be reopened after the Pentagon and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers just handed it over to Halliburton without any thought of better deals or other offers. Obviously, it always best to go with the chepeast deal especially when the President is asking for money more times than a hooker with short term memory loss, and it doesn't look like the Bush administration is doing the Charleston with Halliburton behind the public's back. So after reviewing all the bids, it is with great pride the government announced they are going with...Halliburton.
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Chooses Halliburton...Again
Yes, months of criticism forced the Pentagon and USACE to rethink the contracts they just handed over to Halliburton without even soliciting bids from other companies. But, apparently, Halliburton had the best deal of them all. Oh, and they also discovered that pigs are flying out of my butt. I'm thankful that's all they found in there because it's the only place they haven't started drilling for oil yet. I can't tell you how thankful I am for that.
Before, I refused to believe the Bush administration was stupid enough to think that no one would question their motives by just hiring Halliburton without even looking at other offers. Hell, even I didn't want to turn into some conspiratorial nut to think they'd start a war only to give their oil company buddies a no-strings attached government contract. But when you say you're going to review all the bids again only to hand it back to Halliburton in such a short amount of time, then people are going to start paying attention to your fingers instead of your mouth to make sure they aren't more crossed than Bobby Batista's pupils.
But now, they just do their secret handshakes and pass along financial favors with our tax dollars right in front of our faces without any shame. I'm not saying Halliburton can't get the job done in Iraq, but it's hard not to feel suspicious when your vice president is a former CEO with millions in Halliburton campaign dollars in his pocket from the first election and we're making the decision to hand them huge, multi-million dollar contracts faster than it takes to make a bowl of Easy Mac.
The contract is valued at $1.2 billion, which isn't as tremendous as I originally thought, but $1.2 billion is $1.2 billion and it's especially expensive after the President wants over a billion for landing a man on Mars by 2010 and another $3.7 billion from the Justice Department for religious groups. The only way I can see Bush affording to pay for all this stuff without raising taxes is by funding a billion dollar scientific exploratory initiative into growing money.
Chances are Halliburton's already got that deal.
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Chooses Halliburton...Again
Yes, months of criticism forced the Pentagon and USACE to rethink the contracts they just handed over to Halliburton without even soliciting bids from other companies. But, apparently, Halliburton had the best deal of them all. Oh, and they also discovered that pigs are flying out of my butt. I'm thankful that's all they found in there because it's the only place they haven't started drilling for oil yet. I can't tell you how thankful I am for that.
Before, I refused to believe the Bush administration was stupid enough to think that no one would question their motives by just hiring Halliburton without even looking at other offers. Hell, even I didn't want to turn into some conspiratorial nut to think they'd start a war only to give their oil company buddies a no-strings attached government contract. But when you say you're going to review all the bids again only to hand it back to Halliburton in such a short amount of time, then people are going to start paying attention to your fingers instead of your mouth to make sure they aren't more crossed than Bobby Batista's pupils.
But now, they just do their secret handshakes and pass along financial favors with our tax dollars right in front of our faces without any shame. I'm not saying Halliburton can't get the job done in Iraq, but it's hard not to feel suspicious when your vice president is a former CEO with millions in Halliburton campaign dollars in his pocket from the first election and we're making the decision to hand them huge, multi-million dollar contracts faster than it takes to make a bowl of Easy Mac.
The contract is valued at $1.2 billion, which isn't as tremendous as I originally thought, but $1.2 billion is $1.2 billion and it's especially expensive after the President wants over a billion for landing a man on Mars by 2010 and another $3.7 billion from the Justice Department for religious groups. The only way I can see Bush affording to pay for all this stuff without raising taxes is by funding a billion dollar scientific exploratory initiative into growing money.
Chances are Halliburton's already got that deal.
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