On Fri, 29 Jul 2005 08:38:56 -0700, Mr Wizzard wrote:


So why is this an issue? Are there really other State side companies that
are equally as good as Haliburton? In Iraq, and as I inderstand it,
there *were* no other other state side companies capable of doing the work
that needed to be done in Iraq. And we *damn* sure wern't gonna hire some
European, or French company, right? (I mean, was that even a rational idea
anyways ?)

You know this, how? Of course their are other American companies that are
capable of doing this work. In most cases, Halliburton was doing was
hiring other companies to do the work.



This article was reading pretty good up to the last paragrah which exposes
it for what the article really is - bunk. There is nothing wrong with
"greed" - it *is* the sole element of capitalism, and the sooner all
Americans realie this, the sooner we will all get this
anti-American/anti-Capitalism under control.

Shades of Gordon Gecko. Funny, but I thought what made capitalism a
healthy system wasn't greed, but competition. And there was no
competition in the Halliburton contract.

http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=11525

We are a "law-based",
Capitalism based society which is a good thing. Be it sleezy salesman, or
Wall Marts, etc., companies, and corporate America forms companies, and
corporations to "make money". We are not a "feel good" society - profits
first (which benifits *everyone* in the form of a robust economy, stocks,
investment funds, tax revenue etc), and the feel-good/warm-n-fuzzy thing
second, guided by "law" which prevents "greed" from hurting anyone. This
is *not* socialism. Capitalism is not for the faint of heart.

You do have a distorted sense of capitalism. You may wish to take a
remedial look at free markets. Greed, if you want to call it that, only
accounts for one side of the paradigm, the supply side. On the market
side, I would say the more important side, the driving force is not greed,
far from it.