Don't make me research this question!!  Did our Vice Prez recieve dollars from Haliburton?  And if so, how much?
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Dunno how much he received for 2005 since they haven't released his tax filings yet.  According to the White House, in 2004 he received $194,852 in deferred compensation from Halliburton (money he agreed to be paid as part of his salary when he was CEO but after he had resigned as CEO).
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The bastards are messing with us!  They are simply raising the prices to fatten up their wallets.  Their profits have raised by 30% and they keep changing the reasons for prices going up.  We never get a straight answer.  First its "a pipe broke and needs to be repaired so oil has gone up", then its "everyones using too much gas in their suvs", then its "we're negotiating to lower prices", um, excuse me but doesnt Bush OWN a refinery?
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The Army Corps of Engineers has awarded a contract worth up to $385 million for building temporary immigration detention centers to Kellogg Brown & Root, the Halliburton subsidiary that has been criticized for overcharging the Pentagon for its work in Iraq.\n\nKBR would build the centers for the Homeland Security Department for an unexpected influx of immigrants, to house people in the event of a natural disaster or for new programs that require additional detention space, company executives said. KBR, which announced the contract last month, had a similar contract with immigration agencies from 2000 to last year.\n\nThe contract with the Corps of Engineers runs one year, with four optional one-year extensions. Officials of the corps said that they had solicited bids and that KBR was the lone responder.\n\nA spokeswoman for Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Jamie Zuieback, said KBR would build the centers only in an emergency like the one when thousands of Cubans floated on rafts to the United States. She emphasized that the centers might never be built if such an emergency did not arise.\n\n"It's the type of contract that could be used in some kind of mass migration," Ms. Zuieback said.\n\nA spokesman for the corps, Clayton Church, said that the centers could be at unused military sites or temporary structures and that each one would hold up to 5,000 people.\n\n"When there's a large influx of people into the United States, how are we going to feed, house and protect them?" Mr. Church asked. "That's why these kinds of contracts are there."\n\nMr. Church said that KBR did not end up creating immigration centers under its previous contract, but that it did build temporary shelters for Hurricane Katrina evacuees.\n\nFederal auditors rebuked the company for unsubstantiated billing in its Iraq reconstruction contracts, and it has been criticized because of accusations that Halliburton, led by Dick Cheney before he became vice president, was aided by connections in obtaining contracts. Halliburton executives denied that they charged excessively for the work in Iraq.\n\nMr. Church said concerns about the Iraq contracts did not affect the awarding of the new contract.\n\nRepresentative Henry A. Waxman, Democrat of California, who has monitored the company, called the contract worrisome.\n\n"With Halliburton's ever expanding track record of overcharging, it's hard to believe that the administration has decided to entrust Halliburton with even more taxpayer dollars," Mr. Waxman said. "With each new contract, the need for real oversight grows."\n\nIn recent months, the Homeland Security Department has promised to increase bed space in its detention centers to hold thousands of illegal immigrants awaiting deportation. In the first quarter of the 2006 fiscal year, nearly 60 percent of the illegal immigrants apprehended from countries other than Mexico were released on their own recognizance.\n\nDomestic security officials have promised to end the releases by increasing the number of detention beds. Last week, domestic security officials announced that they would expand detaining and swiftly deporting illegal immigrants to include those seized near the Canadian border.\n\nAdvocates for immigrants said they feared that the new contract was another indication that the government planned to expand the detention of illegal immigrants, including those seeking asylum.\n\n"It's pretty obvious that the intent of the government is to detain more and more people and to expedite their removal," said Cheryl Little, executive director of the Florida Immigrant Advocacy Center in Miami.\n\nMs. Zuieback said the KBR contract was not intended for that.\n\n"It's not part of any day-to-day enforcement," she said.\n\nShe added that she could not provide additional information about the company's statement that the contract was also meant to support the rapi
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You really are joking, aren't you? Leftover Campaign Funds. This mid-term election saw record funds wasted across the board. I doubt there was any left. In fact, I'd wager money was skimmed from taxes for this campaign.
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i dont really see any difference between that and ppl taking money from enron, haliburton, and all the other companies that are in bed with the republican side of things. the current cabinet has more ties to the business world than one can count. i'd rather see the groups dealing with the government you've listed than the flock of men who've been found to screw over the masses with illegal business practices, and oil barons and guys who did business with Saddam (like Dick Cheney).\n\nnot that i think any of it is right. its all fairly reprehensible, but overall, you need to pick the lesser of evils. basically deciding in you want someone that sucks or blows, and who's gonna screw you the least.\n\ni'm an independent, but i'm more on the moderate side of the democrats lately. there are much better republicans out there than the ones in office now. and the things i dont like about democrats are that they tend to be too soft about things, i dont agree with their views on gun control, criminal punishment, etc. \n\nand before you judge them as socialists, or "tax and spend" dems, look at how much bush's regime has spent, and ask who's going to pay for that? especially being that all of his tax cuts favor ppl that make over $200,000 a year.
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I just got back from Kuwait and Baghdad i spent a year going between both places. I am active army, so i know the area well.  I do not know for sure about kuwait but I do know that in Baghdad there were vendors walking along the street with gas cans offering to fill your vehicle up for 25 cents a gallon.  Cigarettes are only 50 cents a pack, however, you can get them for 35 cents if you bargain.  Those dvds that you pay 15 bucks for here cost 75 cents to a dollar there.  The american dollar goes a long way over there............and by the way for your friend who responded; there are no car bombers in kuwait, I never heard of a single one going off when I was there.  They do not pay with their lives either, Kuwait is doing allright economically and peace thrives in most of the nation.  The few circumstance we encountered were insurgents from iran, syria, and iraq crossing over to start crap, but they only did drive by's and then sped like hell.  It was rare, but a few times over a year
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Not a bit.  The Bush administrationg didn't catch him by sitting on their @$$ in their $1000 suits playing war games with toy soldiers.  Our troops killed him and they deserve the credit.
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I used a coupon today for buy-1-get-1-free on Chicken McNuggets!\n\nBush and Cheney are just chicken to reality.
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how low can we go? Bush and Cheney are monsters. How much more can the national debt soar? How many lies can he tell?  Is there another oil-rich country that we can invade? Is Osama Bin Laden still virtually unscathed from his horrendous attack on our country? How many of our young people are going to Iraq? How many will come home? How much richer can the rich get? How much poorer can the poor get? It is a sad state of affairs when our people are out priced at the gas pumps, and it is only going to get worse. These are tip of the iceberg questions, but suffice it to say that there is not a number that goes low enough. He will spend his remaining tenure in office seeing just how much his constituency can stand before reaching point break. I am already there, but I can proudly say that I did not vote for this monster, or for his ass clown father.
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it isn't all congress - it is cheney - he & haliburton go way back...unfortunately our government (both parties) are as corrupt as any third world country - guess the democrats think they are not getting enough of the payoffs!
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Cheney would sell his grandmother into slavery if it made his buddies in the oil biz an extra 50 cents.  He's already sold out our country for them.  It wouldn't surprise me one bit to find out that Iraq happened just to give Haliburton a profit (after all, he did take a multi-million dollar parachute from them when he left as CEO to run for VP).\n\nRove and his minions have been pretty good about hiding the depth to which Shrub & Co were involved in Enron, but the truth will someday out, and when it does, Bush better hope he has a buddy in the WH who can pardon him.
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John you have answered your own question.  Do you really think these politicians make only $165,000 a year?  This figure does not include the perks, free medical care, free transportation including jet rides for their families and entourage, retirement plans equal in salary and perks until they die.  And whatever corporations tag on with speaking engagements, representations.  As Mark Twain wrote, "The US has the Best Government Money Can Buy."  Big Money/Big Corporations.  Look at the List of Corporations who received NON BID contracts for Iraq?  Haliburton (Cheney's previous employer)  Carlyle Corp. (Papa Bush is trustee along with the Saudis), Texco (Ms. C. Rice's alma mater).  10% of the American population control 60% of the wealth in the US.  What do you think?  It is pretty obvious who and what controls this country.
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Cheney will never turn over his notes, or appear before Congress; he thinks he is above us all. I think we all know what they would find; the selling of the American people down the river of oil. Old Kennyboy didn't even get a eulogy from his old pals at the White House. Anyway, it should be fun watching the thieves squirm a little bit, and spend big money on their lawyers, but I'm sure there will be plenty left in their offshore accounts, that's the real tax cut. Great question!
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Nope. He raised taxes. Go figure, a democrat got into the white house and raised taxes. Nothing new there. All democrats lie to get into the white house. Its the only way they can win.
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A PERSONAL VINDETTA "HE TRIED TO KILL MY DAD"\n\nAND DICK CHENEY'S PERSONAL PORTFOLIO HAS DONE QUITE WELL WITH THE HALLIBURTON PROFITS!
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We really have no idea what they did-it's all been ruled top-secret! Suits aginst Haliburtan were dismissed. Wow-this story in the money section while the headlines screamed about yet another closet gay Republican. Thanks!\n\nNo and yes...but I'm thinking probably won't.
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I think this is what you are referring to: \n\nBERKELEY, CA — A Halliburton subsidiary has just received a $385 million contract from the Department of Homeland Security to provide "temporary detention and processing capabilities." \n\nThe contract — announced Jan. 24 by the engineering and construction firm KBR — calls for preparing for "an emergency influx of immigrants, or to support the rapid development of new programs" in the event of other emergencies, such as "a natural disaster." The release offered no details about where Halliburton was to build these facilities, or when. \n\nTo date, some newspapers have worried that open-ended provisions in the contract could lead to cost overruns, such as have occurred with KBR in Iraq. A Homeland Security spokesperson has responded that this is a "contingency contract" and that conceivably no centers might be built. But almost no paper so far has discussed the possibility that detention centers could be used to detain American citizens if the Bush administration were to declare martial law. \n\nThese are interesting times.