Haliburton's free market response to the military's needs was to make the system even less efficient and waste taxpayer money at an even great pace... Maybe Enron is a better example?
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Goodbye democracy, hello bank owned government
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you had me at Haliburton
back to my fracking vimeo, which i'm finding enjoyable actually...
100-150 times smaller loss than Enron. A fraction of the cost of the numerous failed military programs in the huge defense budget the other party won't cut - military waste makes everything else insignificant. A pixel compared to the cost of the Iraq oil war - 4 trillion and climbing for securing our long-term energy future as well as Solyndra did...
anything to keep honkies and illegal brown people safe.....
collateral safety?
corn doesn't pick itself....
So you're saying because they are rich and get payed way to much for what they do that we should continue with the blatant gambling with our stock market???? What I'm saying is these people's greed destroyed the economy, then they have the nerve to blame the middle class, Fvck that.
I would also like to point out, that CEOs and the like don't get paid what they deserve, they set thier own salaries, they get payed as much as they can get away with paying themselves. Distinct difference.
Good a place as any I suppose:
http://www.businessinsider.com/infographic-the-libor-scandal-explained-2012-7
http://www.businessinsider.com/infographic-the-libor-scandal-explained-2012-7
as is this:
Former Obama Donor Holds High Dollar Fundraiser for Romney with Former Obama Donors
new boss == old boss
Former Obama Donor Holds High Dollar Fundraiser for Romney with Former Obama Donors
new boss == old boss
I would guess it's cause the chairman of Revlon can make his money back with a government contract to maintain Romney's hair helmet.
Also:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/katrina-vanden-heuvel-time-for-banksters-to-be-prosecuted/2012/07/10/gJQATpxbaW_story.html
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Conservative's view of patriotism: Putting any country first, regardless as to whether it's the one that you're a citizen of...
maybe the stockholders, you know, the people who own the company. Hell if I set my own salary, I'll take 500$ an hour to wrench on bikes.....
Don't even get me started on the moronic Israel lobby. You just showed some single issue morons. I have a couple friends (very close friends I may add) who work for the Israel lobby in DC. I have quite literally spat in both of their faces.
Good try on pointing out single issue retards changing their vote because Obama isn't as supportive of an apartheid state as they would like. Again your logic sucks, and you are an idiot.
i'm only rumored to be an idiot
but you're only an idiot in theory, in the same way gravity is only a theory
So what does that say about you??? I regularly make you look like an asshat
And FYI, it's called the LAW of gravity. Idiot
http://thehappyscientist.com/science-experiment/gravity-theory-or-law
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yeah, i've barely recovered from that time you proved to me foxnews was banned in canada
ok then, i guess it's been settled: you're an idiot by *law*
thanks for making rm fun again
That was in between the ten other times I made you look like a fool. Again, nice try.
So by law you must be the dumbest person alive right???
I'm still waiting for your rebuttal on why, just because they make millions we should continue to let the people who destroyed the economy continue what they are doing. Because as of now, your rebuttal was a crappy "look the crazy israel lobby doesn't like obama"
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Being in business isn't the same as succeeding in business. George failed at everything he ever tried.
I disagree with his position on gun control, on the way he didn't prosecute wall street, on the defense bill that got signed, the list goes on and on and on. Funny thing is, this thread was only about one issue. Nice try though
pixie fight!
$tinkle, I'm still waiting on your rebuttal for why we should keep paying people millions to gamble with the economy. Until do yourself a favor and stop talking
well, you might want to direct that question toward someone who has taken this position. like, perhaps, a true scotsman. (let me know if you need help w/ that reference)
you see, for you, when something fails, it was due to gambling, but when it succeeds, what could possibly be the explanation? can't be gambling, b/c if it were, this would then mean gambling is equal to failure. so what are we left with? negligence motivated by greed? perhaps. tell me, under this administration, has this continued? specifically, have there been bonuses paid out to individuals whose companies have received bailouts? if so (it is so), it seems like a missed opportunity for the executive order wand, if it would even come to that.
do you know who jacob lew is?
"Transparency and the rule of law will be the touchstones of this Presidency" - BHO, 1st day in office
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Who gives a shlt. The stated purposes of businesses and governments are polar opposites. This incestuous revolving door crap and the accompanying mindset of familiarity with industry equating to expertise in governance is retarded. Which I guess makes sense considering it was a stink post I was responding to....
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I just want to quote myself here to point out something you guys may enjoy in the future. SEAN geitner was an ex-roomate of mine who stole some ski equipment from me, and knocked up his girlfriend and fled town like the deadbeat he is. I sometimes say his name when I mean TIM geitner.
Just keep an eye out for it. It's a Freudian slip worth laughing at, and something I've done more than once.
......hey.....hey.....guys?
I just....went to the bathroom for a minute.....I was in the DH forum ..and I ..took a left, or something.
I ....where am I?
I heard some talking and stuff,then some dude said that he spit in his "good friends" faces?
...h-how do get out of here?! I'm sorry and I promise not to come back..imstillvotingforronpaulin2012Bye!
I just....went to the bathroom for a minute.....I was in the DH forum ..and I ..took a left, or something.
I ....where am I?
I heard some talking and stuff,then some dude said that he spit in his "good friends" faces?
...h-how do get out of here?! I'm sorry and I promise not to come back..imstillvotingforronpaulin2012Bye!
ARE YOU JOKING!?!?! seriously dude? did you miss the whole, the sub prime mortgage thing was cause by CLEARLY bad math and the trading of toxic adjustable rate mortgages? they were GAMBLING with the american economy, and the middle classes greatest source of personal wealth.
Ummmm FYI, even without the bonus, the multi million dollar salary, and them being aloud to continue to be in the position they are in is reward enough. The fact that they tried to give themselves golden parachutes just hammered the point home.
Seriously dude, you must be kidding me, you can't be THAT dumb.....
And Romney made money by buying companies, gutting them, then running up a huge debt in their name, then spinning it or dumping it.
Is that how you want him to run the country? Sell off what's left of us to China, then walk away after 4 years with even more money off-shore than he has now.
Just to be clear, I will not be voting for Romney. However, we should still at least strive to argue reality, not perception. Despite the sensationalist articles on the topic, Romney's tenure at Bain was pretty ethical. I think I wrote up an analysis in another thread but can't be bothered to find it. Additionally, he was a damn good governor. Seriously, look at his record. He was progressive, moderate, fiscally responsible, and responsive to his constituents. Gay marriage and socialized medicine, fer****sakes. If I had an inkling that Governor Romney were still kicking around in there, I'd give him a hard look. But the primaries showed that Governor Romney is long gone, and Candidate Romney is as beholden to the ideologues as Bush ever was.
if this is true, then he will lose.
elections are won in the middle*
*i know you know that, but on the off-chance some DHer comes wandering in here again to ask for directions...
What's "his position" on gun control again? Does he have a line-item veto that can magically change the Defense bill into something that he likes better? Last I checked he can either sign a bill or veto it, not change it once it gets to his desk... What "specifically-illegal" actions did Wall Street do again (aside from misrepresenting CDOs while selling them to their own clients)?
Go look at the UN arms bill that he's endorsing.
No, he should have vetoed the whole damn thing, it was AWFUL.
That one that you just said.......
Got tired of you yanging on his chain?WTF ever happened to $tinkle? He was my Yin.
I think he pulled the trigger on the sex change operation. Teh wimmins don't post on the monkey any more.
Wow, the Republicans really are pulling out all the stops to get more wimmins in the party.
You could say they are tugging them out by the root.