Next time you hear a neocon enabler say “cut and run”. just ask ‘em if they’re going to scream at their representatives and the newsmedia about Haliburton moving to Dubai one step ahead of accountability.

Since they’ve given us such a nice sound bite, we should use it with vigor. :)

Comment by George Samsiri

Hey George, projecting your right-wing, bush bootlicking, inbred values on us means nothing. Ever hear of “projection”?

My parents were democrats, the dems of the ’60s, which was at least not embarassing. Thank god I was born with brains.

Thank god I’m not a democrat. Better dead than democrat. Bunch of lemmings, bunch of haters, bunch of ill-informed, misdirected, unknowing, uncaring, uneducated saps.

Comment by SKdeA — March 12, 2007 @ 12:57 am
No but I would be if I could get my husband to move there. I absolutely love LA and spend a lot of time there with my daughter. But I live in Chicago, which I adore, but it is going to snow again Thursday. Ho hum

wtf are you talking about? Harassed? By being awarded billions of dollars in no-bid contracts by their former CEO and paying almost no U.S. taxes? This is harassment? There are a lot of companies that would pay good money to get this sort of “harassment.”

Now, let’s pull all our no-bid contracts. Why would we give this work to a foreign company and not to a U.S. company?

Waxman’s staff spends most of it’s time giving the appearance and perception of investigations as opposed to accomplishing anything.

His political investigations cause nothing but blowback in DC for the Democrats and he is a serious source of discourse.

It is sad that Henry gets away with it but he knows how to use the press and his office to stay in office.

Halliburton moving their office was not unexpected. Why would they stay where they are constantly harassed? Would you?

Prescott Bush (W’s grandfather and executive banker of Brown Brothers Harriman–Nazi Germany’s connection to Wall Street) was a director of Dresser Industries, which is now part of Halliburton. His son, George H. W. Bush, worked for Dresser Industries in several positions from 1948-1951.

When Halliburton is mentioned in the media, they might speak of Cheney’s connection, but they will never speak of the Bush family and Dresser !!!

PHOTO: “Halliburton thanks you, America, for your BILLIONS & BILLIONS of dollars!

And now, we are moving to a foreign land far, far away.

Oh, and we’re taking our records with us, so you can’t investigate us.

SUCKERS!

Mwahahahahahahahahaha!”

(I can dream, can’t I?)

Comment by muckdog — March 11, 2007 @ 9:02

Could be because California expects business to give something back to its employers like health benefits. Isn’t that why California has less Walmarts and Sam’s because residents really don’t want them.
This is a country with nobody owes anybody anything mentality. The only way a person is judged is by how much money they have. Corporations like Halliburton had no problem sucking billions out of the Treasury but now the money’s gone and they’re going to find the next suckers.
And neocons, who think national healthcare is a preposterous idea, complain that corporations here can’t be competitive. Well as long as a United States Corporation has to provide health care it will never be competitive with most industrialized nations.
And neocons are notorious for hating social programs unless its the social program they get, Social Security.
I believe I am done venting now.

via DKos:

http://blog.aflcio.org/2007/03/09/rich-get-richer-middle-class-shrinks/

From 2003 to 2004, the average incomes of the bottom 99 percent of households grew by less than 3 percent, after adjusting for inflation. In contrast, the average incomes of the top one percent of households experienced a jump of more than 18 percent, after adjusting for inflation. (Census data show that real median income fell between 2003 and 2004. Average income is pulled up by gains at the top of the income spectrum; much of the 2.3 percent rise among the bottom 99 percent seems to largely reflect gains by households in the top ten percent of the income spectrum. In contrast, trends in median income capture the experience of households in the middle of the income spectrum.)

The top 1 percent of households (those with annual incomes above about $315,000 in 2004) garnered 53 percent of the income gains in 2004….

…The share of total U.S. income that the top one percent of households received in 2004 was greater than the share it received in any prior year since 1929, except for 1999 and 2000.

Comment by unbelievable — March 11, 2007 @ 7:14 pm

And Nero fiddled while Rome burned…
Insert the American People and the United States.
I believe the Roman people were pretty complacent and believed they’d be the most powerful forever too.