2007-04-02 12:53:46 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
Ask and you shall receive....http://www.nationalreview.com/york/york200309260913.asp
Is it a conflict of interest?
2007-04-02 13:08:21 · update #1
“It’s pretty much business as usual” he said via an intercom through five foot thick bulletproof glass in an underground bunker 2 miles below the earth’s surface in an undisclosed location. “At least I’m not hiding in some cave.”
2007-04-02 13:42:58 · answer #1 · answered by friendlyflyr 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's fine to receive your salary over a few years to reduce the tax, but if he was entering the Vice Presidency, he needed to eat the payment of his taxes when he entered into public service...It may have been in the gray area of legality (maybe), but certainly raises all kinds of questions to his loyalty to his previous employer as well as make one wonder if the payments are not really connected to previous work at all and they are just saying that.
I work for a county and inspect government road projects, I cannot accept a baseball cap, a hamburger, or anything from a contractor under contract with county because it not only makes it appear I would do something in his favor if asked, but physiologically it really might make me give him the benefit of a doubt when I would not with another contractor who didn't buy me lunch. As a public employee, I must not even have the appearance of wrongdoing.
2007-04-02 13:26:18 · answer #2 · answered by Ford Prefect 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Halliburton received no bid contracts on the 'war on terror'. $1.7 billion worth. Dick was the former CEO and has had secretive energy meetings that Halliburton attended.
If if looks like a duck, walks like a duck and quacks like a duck it probably is a Republican VP screwing the public again.
Yes it is a conflict of interest.
just watch how many Bushies support the VP multimillionaire.
2007-04-02 13:09:21 · answer #3 · answered by kenny J 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
His stock was settled before he was VP, the price was fixed at that time. He allowed them to pay him the money over a period of time, he didnt have to.
This has nothing to do with no bid contracts im not saying there isnt a bit of good ole boy back scratchin that goes on.
I am just speaking to this question.
2007-04-02 13:17:12 · answer #4 · answered by sociald 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Not for Di*k
He has no problem with Halliburton $$$$
Go big Red Go
2007-04-02 13:11:43 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
how dare you even ASK such a question! you must be some kind of terrorist coddling chablis swilling surrender monkey to question anything that ubersturmfuhrer cheney (pbuh) does or says...i'm guessing DHS will be paying you a visit...
2007-04-02 13:00:04 · answer #6 · answered by spike missing debra m 7 · 5⤊ 0⤋
who cares. No matter how much money he bas or earns or steals or receives for whatever the reason, he is still Dickieboy Cheney, the grand thief...Nothing he buys can change who he is. He looks the same everytime I see him.
2007-04-02 12:58:31 · answer #7 · answered by rare2findd 6 · 5⤊ 1⤋
Cheney is on the take...and very corrupt.
Bribes, payoffs, backroom deals....it the what the Republicans do.
2007-04-02 12:57:50 · answer #8 · answered by Villain 6 · 5⤊ 3⤋
Not if the right to receive it vested before he became a VP.
2007-04-02 12:56:55 · answer #9 · answered by DAR 7 · 2⤊ 4⤋
for me it is , but they find a way out, they make the laws
2007-04-02 12:57:39 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋