[extropy-chat] can't war protesters do better?

[J. Andrew Rogers]

On 8/10/05 11:00 PM, "Jeff Davis" <jrd1415 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> No, you give US a break!  What flippin' reality are
> you inhabiting?  It's springtime for Haliburton,
> Bechtel, all the oil companies, all the defense
> industries, and a raft of private "security" firms.
> And those are only the ones I know about.


Then I assume that you know that companies like Halliburton and Bechtel got
very fat cozy contracts from the Clinton administration?  Is this because
Bill Clinton is best buds with Dick Cheney?  Or maybe it is because they've
always been the recipients of huge no-bid contracts...  Don't delude
yourself; the fact that these companies are making money from the government
has nothing to do with who is in office.  Just because political party
operatives are slobbering over it does not mean any sane person should be.

For the clueless, Halliburton and Bechtel often serve as proxy government
agencies among other things -- that is their business, and has been for
many, many decades.  Not just for the US government, but for most of the
governments around the world, including countries that the US is not
particularly friendly with.  There are only a handful of companies in the
world that do what they do, and they are the 800-lb gorillas, so not a lot
of competition in the market.

Kool-Aid is not healthy for you, no matter what the color.  I suggest you
lay off it and get a grip on the real situation.  Finding some conspiracy in
Halliburton is willful ignorance of the facts and that company's history.
Bloody hell, and people wonder why the signal-to-noise ratio is in the
toilet around here...


J. Andrew Rogers