Firms with ties to Bush get initial contracts for Katrina

[MoJoWorkin]

I want to scream it on the rooftops---DON'T LET THEM PROFIT AGAIN FROM HUMAN MISERY!!!!


http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20050910/pl_nm/contracts_dc_1


Firms with Bush ties snag Katrina deals Sat Sep 10,11:03 AM ET


WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Companies with ties to the Bush White House and the former head of FEMA are clinching some of the administration's first disaster relief and reconstruction contracts in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.


At least two major corporate clients of lobbyist Joe Allbaugh, President George W. Bush's former campaign manager and a former head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, have already been tapped to start recovery work along the battered Gulf Coast.

One is Shaw Group Inc. and the other is Halliburton Co. subsidiary Kellogg Brown and Root. Vice President Dick Cheney is a former head of Halliburton.

Bechtel National Inc., a unit of San Francisco-based Bechtel Corp., has also been selected by FEMA to provide short-term housing for people displaced by the hurricane. Bush named Bechtel's CEO to his Export Council and put the former CEO of Bechtel Energy in charge of the Overseas Private Investment Corporation....

[malaise]

1. So do you seriouskly believe they stuffed FEMA

with political hacks for any other reason but to profit from disasters? Plueeeeez!!

[MoJoWorkin]

2. Of course I agree

but that doesn't have to mean that I will take it without crying foul, again.

[Just Me]

3. Add this to Octafish's thread -----> here

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4726245

[thethinker]

4. Please vote this story up at Yahoo

We need to get this information out to people.

[napi21]

5. Are you f-ing surprised?????

I gotta stop spending so much time on DU! My voice is getting horse from screaming at my screen!

If these AH's hire a bunch of locals to actually do the rebuilding work, I might feel a little better, but I sure haven't heard THAT YET!

[stillcool]

6. i'm surprised...

...that Yahoo's got it.

[Angry Girl]

7. Don't forget the Body Recovery outsourcing!

http://www.lightupthedarkness.org/blog/?view=plink&id=1359

Nightweed's Hurricane Katrina Aid Organizations

[nadinbrzezinski]

8. but, but, but we don't have corruption or cronyism in the United

States, so told me the Bush :sarcasm: