[extropy-chat] Halliburton gets Katrina Contract

[The Avantguardian]

--- "J. Andrew Rogers" <andrew at ceruleansystems.com>
wrote:

> On 9/2/05 8:16 PM, "Olga Bourlin"
> <fauxever at sprynet.com> wrote:
> > Who would have thought?  WHO would have thought? 
> ...
> 
> 
> Well, duh.  Who else could do it?  This the kind of
> thing they *specialize*
> in.  No matter what kind of contract Halliburton
> gets, it MUST be a sinister
> conspiracy of some type.  It is written into their
> corporate charter doncha
> know.

I think the lady's point is that Halliburton should
not be (and probably isn't when I think about it) the
ONLY company that can do it. There is this thing
called monopoly that gums up the gears of a freemarket
economy and I don't need my tin-foil hat to figure out
that monopoly needs a collusion between the government
and A COMPANY in order to prosper in a free market. I
say put these kind of contracts up on BID. There are
many construction contractors that are perfectly
capable of building whatever you want them to build
especially if they are not in a war-zone. What's next,
is Halliburton gonna muscle in on the home-improvement
market? 

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