How much of the emergency funding bill will be paid to private companies (i.e. Halliburton)?

Answer 1

Not to mention Blackwater, our "private security" forces aka mercenaries forces who make $1000 a day. When will enough be enough? The truth is even Congress doesn't know. This is interesting:

Also today, the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee is marking up the Accountability in Contracting Act, which would require federal agencies to limit the use of abuse-prone contracts and increase transparency and accountability in federal contracting.

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MURTHA: Contractors. When I was in Iraq with the Speaker, the contractors [were] falling all over themselves. I asked the GAO and the Inspector General, how many contractors we have. I asked the Under Secretary of Defense. He says, ‘I’ll let you know tomorrow.’ We’ve never gotten an answer back. GAO and Inspector General of Iraq said, ‘Help us get a handle on the contractors.’ So we took five percent of their money out, and that’s about $800 million. We also fenced 10 percent of their money. We want answers about whether these contractors — how much it costs us, how many we have, and how the contracts are being, are being given to these various organizations.

Answer 2

Considering that Haliburton subsidiary Kellogg Brown & Root (KBR) is charging $45 per meal served and $99 per bag of laundry and they serve all of the meals and do all of the laundry for the US in Iraq I would say a large percentage will end up at Haliburton. Oh yeah KBR also does all of the trucking and is the major contractor building the 14 permanent US bases in Iraq.

War for Profit is immoral!

Answer 3

You've hit the nail right on the head with that question. I've wondered too how much of the so called troop funding bill actually benefits the troops.

Answer 4

Judicial Watch: Violations Force [ LIBERAL SENATOR ] Feinstein Military Committee Resignation
http://www.corruptionchronicles.com/2007/03/violations_force_feinstein_mil.html

Millions, companies get paid to make stuff for soldiers to use.

Also, it costs millions of dollars to fix equipment that gets worn down by sand in Iraq.

Liberal Senator Feinstein served on a committee that gave out contracts. In 2003, her husband got a $600 million army contract. "In February, the firm won an army engineering and logistics contract that could bring in $3.1 billion during the next eight years. "http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2003/04/22/MN310531.DTL

Answer 5

Depends. Everyone keeps forgetting that companies such as Halliburton are unique in what they can do. There are no other companies around that can do the things they can do. Besides, how come no one is yelling at Senator Feinstein and her shady deals with her husband's company and his government contracts that she awarded?

Answer 6

Too much, must be nice to get a non-bid billion dollar contract, from your ex-ceo...

Answer 7

George Soros should be happy. He own's 1.9 million shares.

Answer 8

as much as possible