04-22-2003, 09:10 AM
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Originally posted by Timber Loftis:
I'm not more informed. But, I am complaining about something we should have all seen coming. If you make war in a nation and intend to rebuild it, you are going to need to pump metric craploads of money into it. It just irks me to no end that they will get free medicine there whilst my grandmother has to get creative and send off to Mexico to afford her meds.
Sorry if my post sounded more pointed than I ment it to [img]smile.gif[/img] I was in a fairly light hearted mood and was just goofing, didn't realize how it sounded till this morning.
And, I'm not more informed, but I do know ethical conflicts, and Cheney should NOT be owning Halliburton stock.
Cheny does not own Haliburton stock. The democrats forced him to sell it short. 18 months later Haliburton hit an all time record high in value, then a year after that it crashed and Cheney too shit for having stock...selling at the insistance of the Dems and then later being accused of insider trading when the stock tanked nearly 24 months later. He can't win no matter what with some people.
A congressman would be barred from owning stock in a company likely to benefit as a result of a bill in his committee - or he would recuse himself from decisions on that bill. SEC insider trading is obviously disallowed - hell, I have a list of over 300 companies that I have to request permission in writing to buy stock from because we advise them on the business side and don't want some pissant young attorney in the Env'l Dept. to accidently step in the poop and buy stock the day before a big SEC disclosure.
It ain't right. [img]graemlins/dontknowaboutyou.gif[/img]
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As for Haliburton and Beghtal getting contracts [img]smile.gif[/img] I challenege anyone to find three other companies capable of the work on the same scope as these two companies are. They each have a very very limited number of competitors...I know for a fact that Haliburton doesnt have any direct competitors in the US, and there is ony one well known company that does the same thing that I am aware of...it is a french company... I don't think the US govt. will willing give contracts to them.
Anyway don't take the "Smarty Pants" comment too seriosuly [img]smile.gif[/img] I really was just goofing around, and I think you are probably smarter than I am any way [img]smile.gif[/img]
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