Posted on 08/19/2009 12:19:00 PM PDT by rightey1
I don't know if any of us 'dumb' Republicans and conservatives can remember, but there was a large uproar regarding the United States giving no-contract bids to Halliburton, which just so happened to have been run by Vice President Dick Cheney.
Sounds fishy? Well, what was conveniently left out is that Cheney owned no stock in the company and that the company's gains wouldn't affect his income.
But what about Obama destroying the "culture of corruption" and making sure that special interests and lobbyists were not a part of the new Washington elite. Well, it appears that that rosy talk was just enough to get him elected. Now that he's in office, it doesn't seem as important.
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This business of giving US taxpayer billions to Brazil to benefit Soros has got to go viral.
Who else does(domestically) what Halliburton Does.. in the scale that they do it?..
Community organizers.
That’s the point. But it does no good to tell the communists who squawk at mere mention of capitalism done so efficiently and large. They pretend to be against big business, but they’re against small business too. They’re against business in general because it requires them to produce results. It’s their own worthless selves that is the reason for their ire.
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