Halliburned

From "Halliburton, Fraud by" file, an article on that company's theivery in Iraq, including "attempts to charge taxpayers $45 per case of soda, $100 per bag of laundry, $10,000 a day to use five-star hotels in Kuwait. (Meanwhile, the troops are sweating it out in tents in the desert). There’s been $167 million worth of price gouging for imported gasoline, and $186 million charged for meals that were never served to the troops, and a $6 million kickback to two employees (fired by the company) from a subcontractor."

More evidence that private enterprises can be far more destructively wasteful of resources than public enterprises, despite Americans' ritualistic criticism of "inefficient" government and derision for "government work."