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	<title>Comments on: Non-competitive federal contracts skyrocket under Bush.</title>
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		<title>By: ProSe</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2007/05/11/non-competitive-federal-contracts-skyrocket-under-bush/comment-page-1/#comment-3837263</link>
		<dc:creator>ProSe</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Jun 2007 15:26:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I have filed a lawsuit against Intergraph Corporation for unfair competition.  They represented the government in evaluating my company plans, then were given full authority to negotiate the contract with me on behalf of Robins Air Force Base.  They then took over, breached my nondisclosure and participated in bid rigging.

I&#039;m in three courts right now as a pro se litigant. 

1. Case against Intergraph and the corporations teamed with them, or some way assisted them, was filed in the Superior Court.  Currently in discovery phase.

2. Another case against Intergraph was filed in the U.S. District Court for violations of the Sherman Act:  Information can be found here:  http://www.facingthesharks.com/?p=32

3. A case against Robins Air Force Base, Senator Chambliss, Senator Isakson, Congressman Marshall, Governor Purdue and the Small Business Administration can be found here: http://www.facingthesharks.com/?p=31

These cases also involve H1B visa issues, because on information and belief the company Intergraph teamed with has H1B visas and failed to notify the SBA about their visas, and were able to get 8(a) status.  They offered me a huge bribe to drop my protest.

A government employee directly involved in the contract award told me if I didn&#039;t agree not to file suit against the 8(a) company, they wouldn&#039;t award me a contract.  I refused to drop my lawsuit.  She also told me they would award the contract to Intergraph (who had an unfair advantage because they helped me write the statement of work for my contract)

I wouldn&#039;t drop my protest, so they falsified information to the GAO, hid the requirements and awarded the contract to Intergraph.  Believe it or not, they put their threats in writing, and Intergraph admitted in affidavits that they breached my nondisclosure and represented the government, however, they are making me go the whole nine yards in this case and have refused mediation.

Contractors have been told if they associate with me, they will lose their contracts.  One refused to quit associating with me, and they took his contracts away.  They are working on blackballing the other company that was going to team with me. 

Are we having fun yet?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I have filed a lawsuit against Intergraph Corporation for unfair competition.  They represented the government in evaluating my company plans, then were given full authority to negotiate the contract with me on behalf of Robins Air Force Base.  They then took over, breached my nondisclosure and participated in bid rigging.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m in three courts right now as a pro se litigant. </p>
<p>1. Case against Intergraph and the corporations teamed with them, or some way assisted them, was filed in the Superior Court.  Currently in discovery phase.</p>
<p>2. Another case against Intergraph was filed in the U.S. District Court for violations of the Sherman Act:  Information can be found here:  <a href="http://www.facingthesharks.com/?p=32" rel="nofollow">http://www.facingthesharks.com/?p=32</a></p>
<p>3. A case against Robins Air Force Base, Senator Chambliss, Senator Isakson, Congressman Marshall, Governor Purdue and the Small Business Administration can be found here: <a href="http://www.facingthesharks.com/?p=31" rel="nofollow">http://www.facingthesharks.com/?p=31</a></p>
<p>These cases also involve H1B visa issues, because on information and belief the company Intergraph teamed with has H1B visas and failed to notify the SBA about their visas, and were able to get 8(a) status.  They offered me a huge bribe to drop my protest.</p>
<p>A government employee directly involved in the contract award told me if I didn&#8217;t agree not to file suit against the 8(a) company, they wouldn&#8217;t award me a contract.  I refused to drop my lawsuit.  She also told me they would award the contract to Intergraph (who had an unfair advantage because they helped me write the statement of work for my contract)</p>
<p>I wouldn&#8217;t drop my protest, so they falsified information to the GAO, hid the requirements and awarded the contract to Intergraph.  Believe it or not, they put their threats in writing, and Intergraph admitted in affidavits that they breached my nondisclosure and represented the government, however, they are making me go the whole nine yards in this case and have refused mediation.</p>
<p>Contractors have been told if they associate with me, they will lose their contracts.  One refused to quit associating with me, and they took his contracts away.  They are working on blackballing the other company that was going to team with me. </p>
<p>Are we having fun yet?<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=3837263', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: The Die Hard</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2007/05/11/non-competitive-federal-contracts-skyrocket-under-bush/comment-page-1/#comment-3801380</link>
		<dc:creator>The Die Hard</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2007 11:06:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I can see a single-bidder contract for oh, say, a space shuttle.  In fact, under President Clinton, the only examples of single-bidder contracts I can find were for high-specialty items in top-secret applications.  But for a truck?  For trailers?  For tires?  For WATER, for krissake?  And NO-bidder contracts, where the contract is awarded WITHOUT A POSTING, are flatly illegal -- unless the ex-CEO of Halliburton is illegally running the country anyway, I guess....

Congress should confiscate the assets of every last manager at Halliburton, and all its subsidiaries, including the billions hidden in offshore banks, and apply it back to the trillions in debt that the BushDick war has run up.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I can see a single-bidder contract for oh, say, a space shuttle.  In fact, under President Clinton, the only examples of single-bidder contracts I can find were for high-specialty items in top-secret applications.  But for a truck?  For trailers?  For tires?  For WATER, for krissake?  And NO-bidder contracts, where the contract is awarded WITHOUT A POSTING, are flatly illegal &#8212; unless the ex-CEO of Halliburton is illegally running the country anyway, I guess&#8230;.</p>
<p>Congress should confiscate the assets of every last manager at Halliburton, and all its subsidiaries, including the billions hidden in offshore banks, and apply it back to the trillions in debt that the BushDick war has run up.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=3801380', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Fedup</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2007/05/11/non-competitive-federal-contracts-skyrocket-under-bush/comment-page-1/#comment-3799635</link>
		<dc:creator>Fedup</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 12 May 2007 14:14:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Now we have to endure Cheney&#039;s (former CEO of Halliburton and prime initiator and recipient of these gov&#039;t contracts) puss in the headlines for going to the Mideast and being the face of America?
Get your affairs in order everyone.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Now we have to endure Cheney&#8217;s (former CEO of Halliburton and prime initiator and recipient of these gov&#8217;t contracts) puss in the headlines for going to the Mideast and being the face of America?<br />
Get your affairs in order everyone.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=3799635', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: stealth</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2007/05/11/non-competitive-federal-contracts-skyrocket-under-bush/comment-page-1/#comment-3799525</link>
		<dc:creator>stealth</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 12 May 2007 06:09:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Government for sale! Get your hot fresh government! Going once, going twice, SOLD....</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Government for sale! Get your hot fresh government! Going once, going twice, SOLD&#8230;.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=3799525', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: m12</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2007/05/11/non-competitive-federal-contracts-skyrocket-under-bush/comment-page-1/#comment-3799466</link>
		<dc:creator>m12</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 12 May 2007 04:33:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I give you the new &#039;ethical&#039; Democratic congress.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070511/ap_on_go_co/lobbying_reform;_ylt=AjbErzKgXNik_kwBG65RVMRp24cA


WASHINGTON - House Democrats are suddenly balking at the tough lobbying reforms they touted to voters last fall as a reason for putting them in charge of Congress. 

Now that they are running things, many Democrats want to keep the big campaign donations and lavish parties that lobbyists put together for them. They&#039;re also having second thoughts about having to wait an extra year before they can become high-paid lobbyists themselves should they retire or be defeated at the polls.

The growing resistance to several proposed reforms now threatens passage of a bill that once seemed on track to fulfill Democrats&#039; campaign promise of cleaner fundraising and lobbying practices.




What a joke! The do nothing Congress is, well, still doing nothing!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I give you the new &#8216;ethical&#8217; Democratic congress.</p>
<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070511/ap_on_go_co/lobbying_reform;_ylt=AjbErzKgXNik_kwBG65RVMRp24cA" rel="nofollow">http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070511/ap_on_go_co/lobbying_reform;_ylt=AjbErzKgXNik_kwBG65RVMRp24cA</a></p>
<p>WASHINGTON &#8211; House Democrats are suddenly balking at the tough lobbying reforms they touted to voters last fall as a reason for putting them in charge of Congress. </p>
<p>Now that they are running things, many Democrats want to keep the big campaign donations and lavish parties that lobbyists put together for them. They&#8217;re also having second thoughts about having to wait an extra year before they can become high-paid lobbyists themselves should they retire or be defeated at the polls.</p>
<p>The growing resistance to several proposed reforms now threatens passage of a bill that once seemed on track to fulfill Democrats&#8217; campaign promise of cleaner fundraising and lobbying practices.</p>
<p>What a joke! The do nothing Congress is, well, still doing nothing!<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=3799466', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: big papa</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2007/05/11/non-competitive-federal-contracts-skyrocket-under-bush/comment-page-1/#comment-3799124</link>
		<dc:creator>big papa</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 12 May 2007 00:10:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>HELP!

We&#039;ve fallen...

...and we can&#039;tget up!

...STUPID bi*ches...</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>HELP!</p>
<p>We&#8217;ve fallen&#8230;</p>
<p>&#8230;and we can&#8217;tget up!</p>
<p>&#8230;STUPID bi*ches&#8230;<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=3799124', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: RUCerious</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2007/05/11/non-competitive-federal-contracts-skyrocket-under-bush/comment-page-1/#comment-3799033</link>
		<dc:creator>RUCerious</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2007 23:22:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Perhaps we should urinate all over some cash and pay our taxes with that.
At least WE&#039;D get to piss it away.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Perhaps we should urinate all over some cash and pay our taxes with that.<br />
At least WE&#8217;D get to piss it away.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=3799033', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: ace</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2007/05/11/non-competitive-federal-contracts-skyrocket-under-bush/comment-page-1/#comment-3798599</link>
		<dc:creator>ace</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2007 20:21:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Halliburtonâ€™s subsidiary KBR (formerly Kellogg, Brown and Root) announced on January 24, 2006 that it had been awarded a $385 million contingency contract by the Department of Homeland Security to build detention camps in the United States.

Since September 11 the Bush administration has implemented a number of interrelated programs that were planned in the 1980s under President Reagan. Continuity of Government (COG) proposalsâ€”a classified plan for keeping a secret â€œgovernment-within-the-governmentâ€ running during and after a nuclear disasterâ€”included vastly expanded detention capabilities, warrantless eavesdropping, and preparations for greater use of martial law.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civilian_Inmate_Labor_Program

Wikipedia:

Civilian Inmate Labor Program -

The Civilian Inmate Labor Program is a program of the United States Army provided by Army Regulation 210-35[1]. The regulation, first drafted in 1997 and went under a &quot;rapid act revision&quot; in January 2005, provides policy for the creation of labor programs and prison camps on Army installations. The labor would be provided by persons under the supervision of the Federal Bureau of Prisons.

Prison camps

The regulation also sets forth policy for the creation of prison camps on Army installations. These would be used to keep inmates of the labor programs resident on the installations.

In January 2006, Kellogg, Brown and Root reported that they had received a contract from the Department of Homeland Security to expand ICE DRO facilities &quot;in the event of an emergency influx of immigrants into the U.S., or to support the rapid development of new programs.&quot;[3] A February news article comments that the &quot;new programs&quot; mentioned could include the Civilian Inmate Labour Program.[4] ICE has &quot;joint federal facilities&quot; with the Federal Bureau of Prisons.[5]

Swift Luck greens:
http://www.democracyforums.com/showthread.php?tid=297

HANNA, WY 
Latitude: 41.92  
Longitude: -106.521944</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Halliburtonâ€™s subsidiary KBR (formerly Kellogg, Brown and Root) announced on January 24, 2006 that it had been awarded a $385 million contingency contract by the Department of Homeland Security to build detention camps in the United States.</p>
<p>Since September 11 the Bush administration has implemented a number of interrelated programs that were planned in the 1980s under President Reagan. Continuity of Government (COG) proposalsâ€”a classified plan for keeping a secret â€œgovernment-within-the-governmentâ€ running during and after a nuclear disasterâ€”included vastly expanded detention capabilities, warrantless eavesdropping, and preparations for greater use of martial law.</p>
<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civilian_Inmate_Labor_Program" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civilian_Inmate_Labor_Program</a></p>
<p>Wikipedia:</p>
<p>Civilian Inmate Labor Program -</p>
<p>The Civilian Inmate Labor Program is a program of the United States Army provided by Army Regulation 210-35[1]. The regulation, first drafted in 1997 and went under a &#8220;rapid act revision&#8221; in January 2005, provides policy for the creation of labor programs and prison camps on Army installations. The labor would be provided by persons under the supervision of the Federal Bureau of Prisons.</p>
<p>Prison camps</p>
<p>The regulation also sets forth policy for the creation of prison camps on Army installations. These would be used to keep inmates of the labor programs resident on the installations.</p>
<p>In January 2006, Kellogg, Brown and Root reported that they had received a contract from the Department of Homeland Security to expand ICE DRO facilities &#8220;in the event of an emergency influx of immigrants into the U.S., or to support the rapid development of new programs.&#8221;[3] A February news article comments that the &#8220;new programs&#8221; mentioned could include the Civilian Inmate Labour Program.[4] ICE has &#8220;joint federal facilities&#8221; with the Federal Bureau of Prisons.[5]</p>
<p>Swift Luck greens:<br />
<a href="http://www.democracyforums.com/showthread.php?tid=297" rel="nofollow">http://www.democracyforums.com/showthread.php?tid=297</a></p>
<p>HANNA, WY<br />
Latitude: 41.92<br />
Longitude: -106.521944<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=3798599', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Innocent Bystander</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2007/05/11/non-competitive-federal-contracts-skyrocket-under-bush/comment-page-1/#comment-3798576</link>
		<dc:creator>Innocent Bystander</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2007 20:15:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>This ain&#039;t no Party in the WH....it&#039;s an organized crime syndicate.  Who wants to correlate the no-bid contracts to political donations?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This ain&#8217;t no Party in the WH&#8230;.it&#8217;s an organized crime syndicate.  Who wants to correlate the no-bid contracts to political donations?<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=3798576', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: derone</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2007/05/11/non-competitive-federal-contracts-skyrocket-under-bush/comment-page-1/#comment-3798531</link>
		<dc:creator>derone</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2007 20:04:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The Bush crime family
hard at werk.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The Bush crime family<br />
hard at werk.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=3798531', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: hellinabucket</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2007/05/11/non-competitive-federal-contracts-skyrocket-under-bush/comment-page-1/#comment-3798483</link>
		<dc:creator>hellinabucket</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2007 19:52:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Agreed Peter.  How they can thump their chests while this is hanging over all of our heads because of them is beyond me.

Trolls can&#039;t muster any defense against this evidence.  

This report is why their arguments are hollow.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Agreed Peter.  How they can thump their chests while this is hanging over all of our heads because of them is beyond me.</p>
<p>Trolls can&#8217;t muster any defense against this evidence.  </p>
<p>This report is why their arguments are hollow.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=3798483', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: veritas</title>
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		<dc:creator>veritas</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2007 19:47:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I thought we had laws governing the awarding of federal contracts without a bidding process.  I thought Haliburton&#039;s no-bid contract for all of the war profiteering was a rare anomaly but I see that I&#039;ve been proven wrong.....to the tune of $145 billion wrong!!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I thought we had laws governing the awarding of federal contracts without a bidding process.  I thought Haliburton&#8217;s no-bid contract for all of the war profiteering was a rare anomaly but I see that I&#8217;ve been proven wrong&#8230;..to the tune of $145 billion wrong!!<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=3798465', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Peter</title>
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		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2007 19:45:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>No Republican should ever be able to say that they are fiscally conservative without showing how they fought against Bush and his irresponsibility.  They should all be challenged every time they try to claim it.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>No Republican should ever be able to say that they are fiscally conservative without showing how they fought against Bush and his irresponsibility.  They should all be challenged every time they try to claim it.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=3798452', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: WaltTheMan</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2007/05/11/non-competitive-federal-contracts-skyrocket-under-bush/comment-page-1/#comment-3798442</link>
		<dc:creator>WaltTheMan</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2007 19:39:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>With the exceptions of the B29 and the Manhattan Project, the US did not use non-bid (cost plus) contracts in WWII, won that in a bit under four years and exited it as an envied and admired superpower. W is losing ground in both the admiration and envy categories, having set our military prowess back by about 10 to 15 years and earning us the enmity of the rest of the World.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>With the exceptions of the B29 and the Manhattan Project, the US did not use non-bid (cost plus) contracts in WWII, won that in a bit under four years and exited it as an envied and admired superpower. W is losing ground in both the admiration and envy categories, having set our military prowess back by about 10 to 15 years and earning us the enmity of the rest of the World.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=3798442', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: toasterhead</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2007/05/11/non-competitive-federal-contracts-skyrocket-under-bush/comment-page-1/#comment-3798426</link>
		<dc:creator>toasterhead</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2007 19:31:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;i&gt;This is a B.S. story. Of course contracts skyrocketed after 9/11, and of course they werenâ€™t competitive, affirmative action advocates have our government by the balls.

Comment by Mr. President â€” May 11, 2007 @ 3:10 pm&lt;/i&gt;

No they don&#039;t.  8(a) set-asides are at most 3% of all federal contracts.
If anything, the thing that has the government by the balls is the excessive bureaucracy that makes the competitive process take a year or more.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><i>This is a B.S. story. Of course contracts skyrocketed after 9/11, and of course they werenâ€™t competitive, affirmative action advocates have our government by the balls.</p>
<p>Comment by Mr. President â€” May 11, 2007 @ 3:10 pm</i></p>
<p>No they don&#8217;t.  8(a) set-asides are at most 3% of all federal contracts.<br />
If anything, the thing that has the government by the balls is the excessive bureaucracy that makes the competitive process take a year or more.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=3798426', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Sandy</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2007/05/11/non-competitive-federal-contracts-skyrocket-under-bush/comment-page-1/#comment-3798419</link>
		<dc:creator>Sandy</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2007 19:29:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Oh!   THIS is the reason Turdblossom wanted Turdface (Bush) to be a &quot;war president&quot;!

Imagine that!

Can you say:  Car-lyle?  Halliburton?   SAIC?  and  on and on and on and on and on and on and on

Remember the FORKLIFTS of CASH Bremer had shipped over to Iraq?
Remember the $9 BILLION that went missing?   Remember their off-shore accounts?

Denmark?   Rotten in DENMARK?    Ha!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Oh!   THIS is the reason Turdblossom wanted Turdface (Bush) to be a &#8220;war president&#8221;!</p>
<p>Imagine that!</p>
<p>Can you say:  Car-lyle?  Halliburton?   SAIC?  and  on and on and on and on and on and on and on</p>
<p>Remember the FORKLIFTS of CASH Bremer had shipped over to Iraq?<br />
Remember the $9 BILLION that went missing?   Remember their off-shore accounts?</p>
<p>Denmark?   Rotten in DENMARK?    Ha!<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=3798419', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: heyzeus</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2007/05/11/non-competitive-federal-contracts-skyrocket-under-bush/comment-page-1/#comment-3798411</link>
		<dc:creator>heyzeus</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2007 19:24:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>What&#039;s to be expected for electing a guy who couldn&#039;t even make it as a used car salesman?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>What&#8217;s to be expected for electing a guy who couldn&#8217;t even make it as a used car salesman?<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=3798411', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Zooey</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2007/05/11/non-competitive-federal-contracts-skyrocket-under-bush/comment-page-1/#comment-3798409</link>
		<dc:creator>Zooey</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2007 19:24:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>This country is being looted by big corporations.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This country is being looted by big corporations.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=3798409', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: gummitch</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2007/05/11/non-competitive-federal-contracts-skyrocket-under-bush/comment-page-1/#comment-3798404</link>
		<dc:creator>gummitch</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2007 19:22:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;em&gt;This is a B.S. story. Of course contracts skyrocketed after 9/11, and of course they werenâ€™t competitive, affirmative action advocates have our government by the balls.

Comment by Mr. President&lt;/em&gt;

Funny, but government agencies everywhere demand competitive bidding, even on the smallest of contracts. According to capitalists, competition is good (except when they have the monopoly) and generally recognized to be more efficient and more economical than simply handing over contracts to friends.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>This is a B.S. story. Of course contracts skyrocketed after 9/11, and of course they werenâ€™t competitive, affirmative action advocates have our government by the balls.</p>
<p>Comment by Mr. President</em></p>
<p>Funny, but government agencies everywhere demand competitive bidding, even on the smallest of contracts. According to capitalists, competition is good (except when they have the monopoly) and generally recognized to be more efficient and more economical than simply handing over contracts to friends.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=3798404', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Pete Bogs</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2007/05/11/non-competitive-federal-contracts-skyrocket-under-bush/comment-page-1/#comment-3798395</link>
		<dc:creator>Pete Bogs</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2007 19:19:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>way to spend our money, small-government Republicants!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>way to spend our money, small-government Republicants!<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=3798395', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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