Why are so many suprised that Haliburton is moving its headquarters out of the states?

Question

I would too if all I heard was negative publicity about my company and how crooked they are and how Haliburton and Cheney have this secret mission to screw people and so on.

Like I said when I answered a question:

We have no one to blame but ourselves when these corportations move out of America.People think that when a company wants to make a profit,theres something wrong with the company.Those profits keep US employed,the better their profits the more we profit with them giving us more benefits and better wages.The more we demand of a company,regulating wages,benefits etc,the more we will lose by EXPECTING MORE.
I have never had a poor person give me a job.

Answer 1

Odd how the Liberals hate employers and love employees. They hate big business but love the big taxes that they place on them.

Answer 2

You make an interesting point. But look at Ford and GM, they gave good benefits and wages, yet people living longer and a shift in the markets has been a disaster for the company and their employees, both present and old.

Then you have what happened with Enron, if the proper safety nets where in place it would not have happened, same applies to Worldcom.

There is also the idea of trickle-down affect. This has never been proven decisiveley. You have unskilled workers, they work extremely long hours for not much money and there is no substantial social security assistance for them. Single parents are the most at risk because of child care costs.

The reason government need to intervene is to protect those most a risk and are not helped by information about how it is better for economic growth if companies were allowed to do what they will. In the US and to a lesser extent Europe, if you are skilled you are comfortable, if not you are in a desperate cycle.

Answer 3

Your assumption is that Halliburton is moving to Dubai because of bad publicity. The bad publicity will follow them to Dubai. I think it is more likely that they wish to avoid paying taxes on profits, despite the fact that a hefty percentage of those past profits, as well as high salaries, have come out of US taxpayers’ pockets. Further investigations will reveal whether Halliburton’s exercised influence within the highest level of the current administration in order to obtain those lucrative no-bid contracts and whether they overcharged the taxpayers. I understand that Halliburton is in business to make money and as long as they do it honestly and ethically, they’ve done nothing wrong. I would wish that corporations would be more socially responsible but that’s an issue that often only concerned shareholders can influence.

Answer 4

I think in years to come, the real truth will come out as to why they are relocating. It's easier to hide crooked activities if you aren't in the public eye on a daily basis. The media coverage and laws we have with unscrupulous companies make them nervous to be in this country. If you have something to hide, it's easier to do it away from these shores.

There's nothing wrong with a company that makes a profit, and there's nothing wrong with being able to have a job that pays enough to live, and support your kids,and plan a retirement...not just survive. We should make demands of companies as workers. And we should demand that companies overseas be held to the same standards as ours for the benefit of the people and environment.

This country has been going downhill since deregulation, loose immigration laws, and unfair trade laws.

I have never given welfare to a middle class worker.

Answer 5

Yup. Say you own a bakery, and the town you're located in passes a law that makes it much harder to find the raw ingredients you use. Maybe it forces you to process your flour in a way that costs you 5 times as much as it used to. A town down the road has no such law. Wouldn't it make sense to move your operation to the town down the road?

The environmental whackos have done everything they could to make it hard for Halliburton to stay in business. Why aren't they and all their buddies in the democratt party throwing a star-studded bash, complete with leonardo dicaprio and algore?

Answer 6

Well this ties in with the whole far left liberal ideology. They painted Haliburton as the devil. They have done everything to try to descredit them.

What it probably boils down to is they are at their wits end with Soro's buying stock in Haliburton. That is probably the main "outrage". Or they just don't understand that its not the federal government's job to tell a company where to keep their headquarters

Answer 7

They probably just got sick of being demonized by the liberal propaganda mill. So now all that taxable revenue and all those jobs will disappear into the middle east which will probably be glad to have the business there. Duncan OK where I work will sure miss them. Another American community screwed to extinction by the political correctness police. Way to go, libs.

Answer 8

Oh boy.

Report questions over $1.4B of Halliburton bills
By Andrea Stone, USA TODAY
WASHINGTON — Halliburton has billed taxpayers more than $1.4 billion in questionable and unsupported charges for logistics and other services in Iraq, according to a Democratic congressional report released Monday. Citing newly released government audits, the Senate Democratic Policy Committee held its fifth hearing on Halliburton and chastised Republicans once again for not being tougher on the company Vice President Cheney led from 1995 until 2000.
"This testimony doesn't just call for congressional oversight; it screams for it," said Sen. Byron Dorgan, D-N.D.

The report cited these examples of inflated costs:

• $617,000 for double-billed soft drinks.

• $1 million in excessive laundry charges.

• More than $560,000 for unneeded heavy equipment, including tractors and trailers.

• $2.2 million for cargo aircraft and $7.6 million for freight costs that "appeared to be duplicate."

• $1.4 million to pay 146 workers at a facility that had only 62.

It's war profiteering, and the foxes are watching the hen house. Come on now.

Halliburton bills U.S. taxpayers $50 for $5 labor in Iraq
6 Feb., 2006
WASHINGTON, Feb. 6 (HalliburtonWatch.org) -- Halliburton's KBR subsidiary pays $5 to $16 a day in wages to third world laborers in Iraq, but bills U.S. taxpayers between $50 and $80 a day for each laborer, military requisitions obtained by HalliburtonWatch reveal.

The requisitions contain KBR's per diem labor costs submitted to the military for approval.

“We pay our locals [in Iraq] $5 to $16 dollars a day and you can see where [KBR] put it down [on the military requisition] as $60 a day,” a KBR employee who wished to remain anonymous because of concern about company retaliation, remarked to HalliburtonWatch.

For example, an invoice from KBR subcontractor, Ranj Company, shows "washer folders" (laundry workers) are paid $7 a day, but the requisition shows the military is billed between $60 and $70 a day for this work, a roughly ten-fold markup for KBR. Security guards are paid $16 a day even though the military reimburses KBR at a daily rate of $60 for this work.

Answer 9

it's all part of the envirolibs plan.
Chase business and industry out of the Us with high taxes and propaganda.
We all sign up for welfare,junk our cars,turn in our guns for a few dollars and live in poverty ever after.
While we're doing that ,they'll rip out all the "EVIL" power plants and reactors.

We'll be known as the MUSHROOM PEOPLE, fed sh*t and kept in the dark.