Why has our military been replaced by Haliburton at 10 times the cost???

Question

http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/103.html

watch that and prepare to be disgusted.

Answer 1

Most all of the jobs the contractors do the military did do at one time. But to save the cost of maintaining those force levels the military was down sized starting in 1990 and escalated through out the 1990s. Don't we remember the 'peace dividen' that we were to reap from this. Both the previous two administrations utilized this term when defining the 'future' military structure. The rational being that in the event that those 'services' are needed they will contracted on an as needed basis. When they are needed they are going to be more expensive short term but the 'savings' is to be realized by not having to maintain that force structure before or after an evolution.

Answer 2

The basic answer ?

In the 1990's, the Army was reduced 420,000 soldiers.

To keep as much combat power as they could, the military decided to keep the combat arms soldiers and keep only enough logistics and support troops to support the units at garrison.

For deployments, it was decided to outsource everything else besides combat arms.

And to those who say Cheney stands to make money from Halliburton, they need to do more research.

Cheney created a gift trust on janurary 16th 2001, two days before he took office.

Assigning power of attorney to a trust administrator to sell the options at some future time and to give the after-tax profits to three charities.

The agreement states that it is "irrevocable and may not be terminated, waived or amended.

So if Cheney does not have the options anymore, the trust does, just how could Cheney profit?

As to Cheneys deffered compensation, he signed the agreement for it, back in 1998. And bought a insurance policy aginist it before he took office.

Answer 3

hmm well maybe because someone in our national government has a little personal interest in Haliburton. Weird several years ago Haliburton was shut down in our town because there was no more work for them and several hard working people lost their jobs. Now Haliburton is overseas making more money than they could ever need

Answer 4

"cost" is exactly why, but ur counting is off. but think about this:

-instead of investing hundreds of thousands of dollars on housing, feeding, basic training, specialty training, benefits etc etc
why not front an initial inflated cost per, & w/no trailing costs(xcept for defense base act payout, if you die) where a contractor fills in on a "specialty needed per project"-basis

-instead of training people in ur military to work in food or laundry services, contract it out. or, have people from civilian private sector who already have necessary technical skills do it (mechanical maintenance, i-t techs; why civilian truck drivers deliver mail in iraq)

-its "ten times the cost" b/c companies charge on "cost plus" profit formula, bu they don't have to deal w/end benefits-costs b/c they use contractors.

-cheney while secretary of defense, started the push for priviatization (1993); he later became executive @haliburton.

-see also "rumsfeld doctrine".

Answer 5

I don't think edited bits and pieces mean anything
may as well been a M. Moeon piece of fecal matter
It is a bunch of BS

Answer 6

Ya, you'd have to be CRAZY to believe people were War Profiteering right? Geezes you Cons are insane. Clinton's lost money in Whitewater and you had to have full scale investigations. Bush and Cheney and Co. steal BILLIONS of your tax dollars and you bend over and tell them to screw you even more.

Answer 7

Criminal. Not suprised Republicans in Congress would not allow that to be shown. Dick Cheney's Halliburton stock options have gone up like 18 times!!! their original value in 2 years. cha ching...Criminal...

Answer 8

If enough Dems would enlist, we would have more than enough soldiers for digging latrines, KP, unloading trucks,and all the other dirty jobs. so we wouldn't need Haliburton.

Answer 9

If you actually believe this crap then I have some swampland in Florida I'd like to sell you....

Answer 10

Wow, that is freaking insane. What corruption.