I would answer your questions if they were written in legible English or were probative at all. Unfortunately they make no sense. Please read post 55 by MHampton. He is the only person on this page with any sense. Halliburton is NOT MOVING its headquarters, it is opening new headquarters. Read the Halliburton press release. It WILL NOT and cannot escape US taxes. It will be taxed on all US source income regardless of where its headquarters are, and cannot escape this by opening up new headquarters. Read some tax laws before you make conclusions on what Halliburton’s tax consequences will be.

Many people have implied that Halliburton will no longer be subject to US jurisdiction if it opens headquarters in Dubai. This is pure nonsense. Any company that does business in the US is subject to US jurisdiction. If it were that easy to escape US jurisdiction, believe me, all US companies would open headquarters in Dubai.

What pisses me off even more than an unjustified war is people who rant and rave about things of which they have no knowledge at all (and who can’t even use proper grammar).

How much more are we asked to swallow?

Here are some questions I have to ask:

1. Why no bid contracts?
2. Why no trickle down to small business?
3. Why no large war economy beyond Dick Cheney’s last employer?
4. Why is Halliburton leaving town after tax payer’s money is stolen in bad contracts.
5. Why is Halliburton being accepted as a patriot of the US?
6. Why is there a Patriot Act?
7. Who did the due diligence before large contracts were issued to Halliburton?
8. Who did the due diligence before selecting Dick Cheney as VP?
9. Why am I having to spend my time even asking the questions above.
10. How many US citizens can you fool before the Justice System takes action?
11. Why have a Justice system at all?
12. Why have a tax system to pay for a government that acts this way?
13. What the Hell!!!! are we doing?
14. Are we all brain dead?
15. How many more questions do I have to ask?

I am done with the questions and would like to invite anyone to justify even half of the above questions to me. If you can’t I will assume this country has seen its better days.

Let me know,
Barth

And get your facts straight. The no-bid contracts were given to KBR, a division of Halliburton. They are in the middle of selling that off. It will be complete in April.

I’m no apologist, I just hate when people spew political rhetoric without having the facts.

Please, Repugs, remind me why was so good to give tax cuts and no bid contracts to corporations like this. Because they’ll create jobs in the USA? Sorry, but most of the workers are of the Middle East or other countries with a low minimum wage. Because they pay taxes and the USA and this will benefit all the USA people that in some manner receive federal funding? This is, from now on, false.

And, curiously, is what many liberals were saying about Haliburton a long time ago…

Uncle Ho, good luck and have a great march, I’m going to check out my area and see what cooking close..Blessings to you both..

I will look for you — that is if the event is coverred by the media.

* Now, the real owners of the oil can make a 20 minute chopper flight instead of 12 hours plane flight to close deals.

* Spreading democracy…yeah.

Comment by Raven — March 11, 2007 @ 11:47 am
Great point but since they’ve raided all the coffers and are on the verge of having to really supply the services they charge for thanks to the Dems I suspect they want to “cut and run.”
Now that this move is announced it would be nice if any future payments to them could be frozen until investigations are complete. And since I’m sure they’ve been getting tax breaks from Texas and the IRS how nice of them to just leave with those billions of dollars taking jobs with them.
Apparently these people believe they can do anything and are untouchable. Moving to Dubai probably just enhances that opinion.
Incredible

America won’t simply be paying with its dead. The Pentagon is trying to silence economists who predict that several decades of care for the wounded will amount to an unbelievable $2.5 trillion.

Casualty conspiracy
the number of wounded listed on the VA website dropped from 50,508 to 21,649. The Bush administration had, once again, turned reality on its head to concur with its claims.

So far, more than 200,000 veterans from the current Iraq or Afghanistan wars have been treated at VA centres. Twenty per cent of those brought home are suffering from serious brain or spinal injuries,

There is now a backlog of 400,000 claims from veterans and waiting lists of months, some of which “render . . . care virtually inaccessible”, in the words of Frances Murphy, the VA’s own deputy under-secretary for health. Claims are expected to hit 874,000 this year, 930,000 in 2008. Casualties returning from Iraq meanwhile outnumber other patients at Walter Reed 17 to one, and many have to be put up at nearby hotels and motels rather than in the hospital beds they desperately need. Suicide attempts are frequent; often the less wounded end up having to care for the more seriously wounded.

GEORGE BUSH HATES THE TROOPS BRING THEM HOME NOW…

My brother visited Halliburton’s Houston HQ for a business meeting. It’s a large campus close to Bush Intercontinental airport. While in the meeting, a plane could be heard overhead. Everyone in the room commented that something was wrong because planes are not allowed to fly over the Halliburton campus. Apparently CHeney has gotten the FAA to protect Halliburton from flyovers.

Dubai aka DuMe

I know from being in the family that Dubai is involved in many world wide laundering schemes. One as an example is “Mandarin Oriental Group” which is known within the family as a place where stolen US tax dollars end up. Of course, the money has new owners! You might find the Tribune’s article, if it’s around “Just who is building Mandarin?” an interesting read since it links the MOB to Dubai. While reading this, please accept that my life’s experience in this family crosses many times with the MOB in other areas. too. One as an example is Abramoff/Gus Boulis’s Casino Boats in Florida which the family was approached in 1996 to become an owner. There are many other occurrences that include other National News articles with another one being Major shipments of Drugs coming into the Midwest then redistributed to the East Coast and Florida areas. Please accept that there are also links to the criminal elements within the US Federal Government too. And it doesn’t stop there either……