ROFLMAO,
Haliburton did make obscene profits, why?, because leftists insist on cutting military spending. If the military doesn't have the people available to build bases, do laundry and cook meals somebody else has to be hired to do it.
How many of the Haliburton jobs were held by foreigners? Too bad we couldn't have just diverted all of that money to GM so they could hire more people in Brazil and China. I see that the taxpayer contribution on the Chevy Volt is up to $250,000 per unit, not only a "no bid" but the taxpayers get a big fat "zero" in return for the investment.
Originally Posted by Iaintliein
It seems you forgot about the "peace dividend" which started after the break up of the soviet union. That start during the elder bush's term. It seems our military was able to defend the homeland and conduct the only sucessful major military operation since WWII, namely the liberation of Kuwait at that level of expenditure. I didn't know the first Bush was a "leftist".
I The US spends as much on defense as THE REST OF THE WORLD COMBINED, Yet righties never seem to want cut that budget. If there is that kind of disparity in spending and we are still worried about any threats, we really must be wasting money badly(especially considering most of the other high spenders are our european friends and Israel)
We have spent more than $100 billion on star wars with pretty much fruitless results. Yet no right wing outrage. Billions just disappear in Iraq. not mention 100,000 guns and who knows what else. yet no right wing outrage. We pay haliburton billions for shoddy construction work and No right wing outrage. We guarantee profits to our defense contractors and righties whine about socialist Obamacare.
4 trillion dollars absolutely wasted in iraq and afghanistan and no sense of shame and disgust, righties just blame the man who inheited the mess created from reagan and the 2 bush's. 10 trillion dollars of debt incurred under "fiscally conservative" republican presidents from reagan on. and righties have the nerve to say that Obama has ruined the economy.