Cheney and Rumsfeld are looting the US Treasury

[brindis_desala]

Why is it that women are the only ones with the courage to stand up to these thieves? It's past time DUers wrote to their congresspersons (particularly those with Repukes on the Appropriations Committee).
The Iraq invasion has taken war profiteering beyond the absurd to the criminally obscene. Who gets the axe? The lonely truthtellers...

Subject: Top civilian in U.S. Army Corps of Engineers blows whistle, and may lose her job
By DEBORAH HASTINGS AP National Writer

<snip> "Her contracting staff was sharply reduced, she said, and her superiors have gone behind her back, most notably in issuing an emergency waiver - on a day she was out of the office - that allowed KBR to ignore requests from Department of Defense auditors who issued a draft report in 2003 concluding KBR overcharged the government $61 million (€49 million) for fuel in Iraq.

The Army Corps of Engineers declined to comment on Greenhouse's complaints. "It's a personnel matter," said Corps spokeswoman Carol Sanders.

"They want me out," Greenhouse said.

In her job, Greenhouse is mandated by Congress to get the best quality at the cheapest price from the most qualified supplier. Over her objections, KBR was awarded three multibillion-dollar war-related contracts, two of them without competitive bidding."

http://news.findlaw.com/ap/o/51/08-08-2005/7bcc0079a6cb8c63.html

[mattclearing]

1. Good find. n/t

[firefox]

2. It is all about raiding the treasury

U.S. NATIONAL DEBT CLOCK- http://www.brillig.com/debt_clock/

The Outstanding Public Debt as of 09 Aug 2005 at 07:13:15 PM GMT is:
$ 7,893,541,103,632.51

The estimated population of the United States is 296,715,662
so each citizen's share of this debt is $26,603.05.

The National Debt has continued to increase an average of
$1.64 billion per day since September 30, 2004!

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The National debt reached $1 trillion in 1981. It was $5.7 trillion when WarCriminal took office- http://wampum.wabanaki.net/archives/001427.html

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The Medicare bill of 2003 opened the public treasury to the pill companies, the HMOs, and the insurance industry in unbelievable fashion. The money sucking will begin in January.

[brindis_desala]

5. I have written to every member of the Appropriations Committee on this

We need to make more noise. This is unabashed grand larceny and it goes on unabated. Corruption has been officially sanctioned. If the crooks are the only ones who get promoted... what would you do..?

Examples of Preferential Treatment for Halliburton
US House Committee on Government Reform, Minority Staff
27 June 2005

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Despite the magnitude of Halliburton's questioned and unsupported costs, the company has repeatedly received special treatment from Defense Department officials. As the eight examples below illustrate, the objections of career officials have been overruled, the requirements of federal procurement regulations have been waived, and Halliburton has been awarded millions of dollars in unjustified fees.


1. Award of the Iraq Oil Contingency Planning Contract

In the fall of 2002, Michael Mobbs, a political appointee in the office of Douglas Feith, Under Secretary for Policy at the Defense Department, made the decision to award the oil infrastructure work in Iraq to Halliburton. This decision was made in secret without competition from any other companies.
http://www.halliburtonwatch.org/news/pref_treat.html

[driver8]

3. I have been saying this forever...

Why is it that no one dares speak out against the "no bid" contracts that Halliburton keeps getting? How is it not a conflict of interest that Cheney was their CEO and now this company is hauling the money away in wheelbarrows?? I'm sure Cheney wouldn't be making any money frome these deals now, would he??

"It's a personal matter" said Corps spokeswoman. Yeah, it's a personal matter to Dick Cheney and his buddies who are afraid that the cash cow is about to dry up.

This woman is doing her job and is being punished for it. She is doing what is right for our country and is being punished for it. That pretty much sums up the attitude of this administration right there.

This story should be on the front page of every newspaper in the country. Maybe the rest of the country would wise up if they realized what thieves these people are.

[Coexist]

4. Halliburton is a money-sucking machine...

I have a huge problem with cutting Head Start when those evil bastards inhale my tax dollars like so much cigarette smoke.

And how painful it must be for our soldiers to see their employees getting paid 80% what they make - and using them as personal bodyguards. It is a sick world we live in.

[VIHMH5L50P]

6. Writing letters to Congressmen doesn't solve anything.

I realize you have good intentions, and I understand these abuses are very frustrating, but...I only care about real solutions.

You cannot solve any problem unless you understand first the problem, second it's causes, third devise a good realistic strategy to deal with the problem, and fourth, have the courage determination and resources to act based on those factors until they're gone.

And women aren't the only ones standing up, about 95% of the people including women are insecure cowards, who want to fit in with all the other sheep around them who are also insecure cowards. The blind leading the blind.

And even if we collectively knew the problems, most of us are too scared to stand up to them and put ourselves on the line.

The corrupt ruling class mafia takes advantage of our weaknesses because we let them, so we are their enablers, so it's all our fault (if we did our job, they couldn't loot us).

That's the first step, we need to take responsibility for our problems, because that reveals to us it's in our power to do something about it.

It's all based on deception, our deception, the one we cause through our lazyness to find truth, and the one being fed to us by liars and crooks.

Another clue. Here we are with Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, etc. looting the US Treasury and committing treason, and the "free" press doesn't report it. No wonder so many are ignorant about things.

I mention the press because there's more power to cause change from the truth coming out from the press, and eliminating our deception, than Congressmen who receive our letters and throw them away.

So is it the press' fault? No, we enable them too.

It's one of the biggest lies being spread that letters help. They might in things that don't matter much, but never in important things.

[tinfoilinfor2005]

7. More damning evidence like this could mean prison time...

A big round-up of every DUer in the country, and off to jail we go. :)