I am trying to remember your position on Halliburton. To actually answer your points though, it seems to me that we are talking about removing unstable, almost certainly toxic, debris which possibly also contains biohazards. You'd have to pay me pretty damn well to get me out there. I'd have to know more about the current and previous going rate to talk about profiteering, but as to tax dollars, well, it seems to me that Louisiana is paying anyway, in lost revenue, in health problems, and in lost productivity. I am sure that this is quite clear to Louisiana, and they aren't just twiddling their thumbs out of perversity. I'm guessing that lack of funds is the reason.
And that lack of funds can be traced, probably, to all the small-minded coverage that a few ill-educated shell-shocked thieves received from the like of Fox News. But hey, Halliburton, that's just business. Dana On 8/29/06, Jerry Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > What is your feeling about profiteering? I don't like it. > > I don't mind paying high rates (remember that it is MY tax dollars > paying). I do mind paying exorbitant rates. And I especially mind > paying exorbitant rates to out of town "carpetbaggers". > > There is a difference between making a good profit, and making a > ridiculous and obscene profit > > There is a difference between bottled water that sells for 99 cents in > normal times going for $2.00, or even $3.00, or even $5.00, and that > same bottled water going for $10.00. > > Tax dollars should never be used to pay that sort of markup. For any > reason. > > That's my feeling. > > On 8/29/06, Casey Dougall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Moving trash has always been big money thing. Don't send troops who can > do > > something that makes money for their local economy. Their going to need > the > > tax rev. We don't make money with migrant workers, Iraq or other things > to > > that nature, our troops are without a better way to say it (better off > doing > > that type of work). > > > > I understand this was a disaster and everything but hey, where there is > > money to be made, why do something for free. At least we can't ship this > off > > shore! > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Introducing the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update. 80 pages of hard-hitting, up-to-date ColdFusion information by your peers, delivered to your door four times a year. http://www.fusionauthority.com/quarterly Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:214470 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
