Originally posted by tedrbr
Shenanigans! I CALL Shenanigans!!!
I will call Shenanigans on your post, because you didn't even watch the documentry.
This isn't about the militrary farming out jobs, it's about a massive amouts of over billing that's going on.
For instance...
Halliburton charges the army $100 for every bag of laundry it does.. (1 solder equals one bag of laundry.) Something that would cost me or you at a local laundry mat less than $5 dollars to do.
btw they also charge the govt for each of the employees whom do the laundry. So it's not like they are charging a bunch, just because they have to pay a lot to get people over there. We get billed for the service and the employee.
They are charging the US army $45 dollars for a 6 pack of coke.. (not even real coke, but some generic brand bought locally)
Another nice one was using contractors to deliver mail to bases in Iraq. Instead of sending a full load of mail, they sent the contractors out with a "single" bag of mail, because they could bill more. Which also puts the contracter lives at risk even more than it already was.
The govt gets charged for every truck private contractors put in Iraq. Halliburton decided it was much easier to destroy the trucks (billed at about $40k each) rather than change the oil filters or change the tires.
Another nice one was Halliburton had executive employees on a base in Iraq. They never leave the base (ie they have to stay on the base and have no where to go) Halliburton bills the govt for a truck that's fully loaded with all the crap you could ever dream of for each of these executives. It's a 3 or 4 year lease on the trucks at a tax payer cost of 200k each. Did I mention the employees aren't allowed to leave the base?
This list goes on and on and we are paying for it, because it's our tax dollars being stolen.. watch the video