How We're Getting Screwed in 4 Easy Steps
By Stephen Pizzo, News for Real

http://www.alternet.org/story/146934/

Good morning suckers. How are we doing today? Okay, enough pleasantries. Take
the position. Go ahead, you should be getting good at it by now; lean over,
grab your ankles and get ready for another dose of Free Enterprisers Gone Wild!

The pattern is now set, clear and undeniable. Here's how it works:

    Step 1: Get your own people into useful positions in government.
    Step 2: Get your people in government to allow you to create a giant-ass
            problem or mess.
    Step 3: Get your people in government to hire you to fix, clean up and
            manage the mess they let you create.
    Step 4: Collect zillions of "bonus" (taxpayer) dollars cleaning up your
            own messes.

- Halliburton's Dick Cheney started two wars and then hires Halliburton, with
our money, as a kind of privatized Headquarters & Supply Company to feed, house
and supply our soldiers while they fight, get wounded and die in the wars
started by our $32 Million Man, Halliburton Dick.

- Wall Street and Big Bankers like Tim Geithner, Larry Summers and a few
hundred others lobby against regulations, loot the economy into
near-depression, get themselves hired to clean up the mess and promptly bail
out their old companies -- with taxpayer money -- and hire their old friends to
manage their own bailout -- with taxpayer money. (Bonnie and Clyde missed a
huge opportunity by being too early.)

- Big Oil lobbies against regulations and then writes those they can't stop,
get their own people in government to run interference for them, create the
biggest ecological disaster since Chernobyl and then convince their friends in
government to hire them to clean up the mess, even allowing them to sell their
own cleanup product Corexit -- which is banned in Europe --  for the process.

"So why is BP sticking with Corexit? The answer may be Nalco's close
relationship with major oil firms-including BP, as Greenwire reported last
week. The company was founded in 1994 as a joint venture with ExxonMobil's
chemical division. Nalco bought out Exxon's share in 2001, but retained its
strong oil industry ties. One Nalco board member, Daniel Sanders, and a vice
president, Steve Taylor, both served as senior executives at Exxon. Another
Nalco board member, Rodney Chase, worked for BP for 38 years.

Oh, quick, look! Here's Halliburton again. My, my, my, but that company gets
around. It was Halliburton's deep-well cementing job that failed and led to the
BP blowout in the Gulf. But apparently there's no mess big enough to take the
shine off these tumor-like companies:

    Halliburton to Present at the 2010 UBS Global Oil and Gas Conference

    MarketWatch (press release) - (May 17, 2010)

Interested parties may listen to the presentation live over the Internet by
accessing the link to the web cast at www.halliburton.com.

I get it. Just lean over and grab those taxpayer ankles. Because it would
appear that electing a Democrat president who promised "change we can believe
in," hasn't changed a goddamn thing.

ENJOY!!!

From Uncle Dirty Dave's Kitchen
Home of YAHOOOOAHHHH Hot Sauce & Hardin Cider 

 

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