Comments on: Report: ‘Shadow Goverment’ Of Private Contractors Explodes Under Bush

By: Randy Moss

Randy Moss — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 17:08:40 +0000

you libs are just f-ing wacked! Get off the CRACK!

By: blogbob

blogbob — Sat, 30 Jun 2007 00:51:16 +0000

How Chimpy and Shooter support our troops:

1. Cut Veterans Benefits even as the 4ID was being rerouted from Turkey to Kuwait;

2. Privatize veterans care and maintenence of VA facilities, who pocket the profit and let Walter Reed fall into disrepair;

3. NO PLANNING for post-fall-of-Baghdad Iraq, leaving an American Army and Marines fully unprepared to be referees for the Baghdad Chapter of the Knife, Gun, and IED Club;

4. No demand that the American public forego their next purchase of a Hummer, Dodge Nitro, Jeep Commander, or even a Ford Tempo so that auto production plants could be put to better use making armored vehicles for our troops (armored vehicles aren’t even made in the US; they come from one of Daddy Bush’s Carlisle buddies in South Africa);

5. Believing Achmed Chalabi;

6. Vetoing a pay increase for our soldiers in the combat zone by a measly $6 a month while paying the contractors six-figure salaries to torture, drive trucks, take out the garbage, etc.

7. While wrapping himself in the flag, Bush steadfastly refuses to go to a funeral of any of the soldiers, marines, airmen, and seamen whose deaqths have resulted from his private little oil war in Iraq.

By: sulphurdunn

sulphurdunn — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 22:02:41 +0000

I hear Haliburton runs Army mess halls worse than the Army ever did and for a lot more money. That’s something I would have never imagined possible.

By: J Morris

J Morris — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 17:16:20 +0000

Hey Looser Libs!

Who said this: ‘No Controling Legal Authority!’

Was Gore taking monies from someone legally when he said this many times in 1996?

We laugh at you

By: J Morris

J Morris — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 17:13:22 +0000

There goes those evil republicans lowering the gas prices! How dare they lower these prices! We are for big oil! I am amazed at how foolish you angry liberals seem. Check out the comments full of profanity and just sick statements. The best you have?

Amazing

By: J Morris

J Morris — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 17:05:35 +0000

How dare those evil Republicans lower the gas prices now! Didn’t you and yours tells us all how they RAISED the gas prices to make their buddies rich? How stupid are you people?

By: JimmySkin

JimmySkin — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 16:34:47 +0000

They will ride into the sunset, my friend. And we’ll just keep complaining on the web boards, talking about how unfair it all is and what a sham! I thrive on chaos and can’t wait until America is convulsing in its last throes of death. No more Big Gulps, sitcoms, or electric dog-polishers for you.

By: timeisart

timeisart — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 16:27:47 +0000

Unregulated private enterprise interacting with an unregulated stock exchange is a formula for socioeconomic disaster. What, you think the great depression of the 1930s was an expression of liberal philosophy? No, the great depression was caused by runaway laissez faire “economics” and a completely uncontrolled stock exchange. That revered repository of Republican ideology, Herbert Hoover, surveyed the millions of Americans living in poverty and squalor, shrugged and said, in effect, “Well, it’s a normal economic cycle. We’re just gonna have to go through this.” Remember the savings and loan debacle of the Reagan era? There’s an example of government deregulating an industry that dealt with hundreds of millions of hard working Americans’ dollars. Where did most of their money go? Into the pockets of the likes of Keating, also a fervent Republican fraud. Kenny Lay and his minions swindled the good ol’ middle class out of a bunch of dough, didn’t he? Lay, Keating, Hoover, Reagan, Bush I, Bush II, Cheney–all good toe-the-line Republicans. All phony low life bloodsuckers with no respect for anything or anyone but their own self-decreed right to run amorally amok and inflict poverty, pain, death and destruction wherever and whenever they so choose. Franklin D. Roosevelt was and remains a bastion of compassion who, as a man of intellect and as much integrity as the political sphere will allow, understood that humans, left to our own devices, will attempt to corral all the horses for a very few cowboys, and just let the rest of us walk or crawl. If we heed the contemporary Republican mantra, we’re going to let the horse thieves ride into the sunset, instead of summarily hanging them.

By: JimmySkin

JimmySkin — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 16:12:14 +0000

It seems like a lot of people on this board are pretty upset about those figures, but what are you gonna do about it? You’ll just sit back and keep taking it. You won’t write or call your representatives. You won’t protest through any organized means. What are you gonna do about it? Are you gonna just keep typing comments on web boards for the rest of your pathetic American lives while the likes of Halliburton agents rob your government of your tax money that should be going to better things? Wake up. America, the country that died without a shot fired. America, the country where people are willfully ignorant and refuse to stand up for themselves. You deserve everything that’s coming down the pike.

By: John

John — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 15:51:24 +0000

This shouldn’t be a surprise to anyone who’s followed politics before Bush (junior) entered office. One of the primary conservative platforms was, and has been, the privatization of the federal government. This has been a general conservative trend since Reagan. Privatizing government means increasing government contracts and contractors. The idea being that the private sector could do things more efficiently than the federal government.

That being said, it wasn’t supposed to be accompanied by increasing the federal government’s budget. The status of the budget, how well contractors have done the job, the fairness of contract awarding, and the proportion of this contracting that is solely for military expenses are separate, related matters that should all be considered.

Also remember, this isn’t Bush’s private, secret plan; there are many lawmakers who subscribe to this theory of government and have done so for some time. Regardless of whether you consider this method of governance a good or bad thing, this is hardly a new or shocking development on the Hill. Calling it a “shadow government” is misleading.

Bottom line: Bush (and many others) said he would do this while running, said he’d do it once elected, and told us he had done it after signing bills. This shouldn’t be news to anyone.

By: doo

doo — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 14:32:18 +0000

Poor “Jimmy Hoffa” is just a product of the right wing media. He probably has to work for a living, but has been brainwashed that every law, every policy, every tax structure should screw HIM while fattening the rich–because in the end it’s in his best interest!

What do you expect from unthinking zombies? They serve their masters without question. They have no value, no rights. They exist to keep the rich living lush.

Unions are no different than governments, families, or anything else–they’re only as good as the people in them. So if Hoffa’s union sucks, he should campaign to oust its leaders. My union works just fine, thank you.

The working man/woman has NO representation in government anymore. So if you don’t have a union, you’re just bending over for The Man. (And intelligent people know who’s sticking it to them. Unlike Hoffa, who refuses to blame his corporate masters for their abuses.)

By: connection

connection — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 08:43:21 +0000

m12 said:
What country are you from, Spaniard?

lol that has to be the dumbest question i’ve heard in a long time.

By: Ronald

Ronald — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 04:07:34 +0000

Thank you Ralph Nader and supporters.

We all know that Al Gore would have showered this much money onto Halliburton and Blackwater. Please notice heavy sarcasm.

By: Jason M. Hendler

Jason M. Hendler — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 02:01:46 +0000

Simple explanation – since taking office, our country was attacked, and dubya has invaded two countries, and these contracts increased in scale along with defense / homeland security spending.

This aint brain surgery people, dig a little.

By: Martin Gifford

Martin Gifford — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 01:48:47 +0000

In most other democratic countries, any one of these noncompetitive contracts would have gotten the government thrown out.

Not in America.

By: m12

m12 — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 21:54:38 +0000

*looking to the floor* Quick sand? No, more like solid rock. Oh, btw, good luck with that 50 year occupation of Iraq.

What country are you from, Spaniard? I’m guessing it’s not Luxembourg, which means our economy runs rings around yours!

By: m12

m12 — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 21:53:25 +0000

#134

Yeah, and?

By: Typical Lefty

Typical Lefty — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 20:50:41 +0000

*Turns off the computer tired of fencing off single handedly 1 troll (Iâ€™m12) and a doppelganger (Jimmy Hoffa, Typical Lefty, etc.) without a drop of sweat*

Comment by Evil Spaniard â€” June 27, 2007 @ 4:14 pm

Well next time say something intelligent and maybe you will sweat.

By: Typical Lefty

Typical Lefty — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 20:48:58 +0000

Bush on the Constitution: â€˜Itâ€™s just a goddamned piece of paperâ€™

Comment by Evil Spaniard â€” June 27, 2007 @ 4:07 pm

Well, it is NOW, after you lefties and your twisted judges have pissed all over the Bill of Rights, destroying our free speech rights, attacking our gun rights, eliminating property rights, twisting the concept of equal rights, eviscerating federalism, punishing “thought” with hate crimes legislation, instituting speech codes, and all the rest.

Yep, after you’ve gotten through with the Constitution, it IS nothing but a piece of paper. Toilet paper.

By: Evil Spaniard

Evil Spaniard — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 20:14:41 +0000

*yawn*

Well, I need some supper. So long.

*Turns off the computer tired of fencing off single handedly 1 troll (I’m12) and a doppelganger (Jimmy Hoffa, Typical Lefty, etc.) without a drop of sweat*