From: "Geo" 

You have completely missed the point. I'm not saying they gave a billion
dollar contract out with no bid, I'm saying in a time when ever other
industry in the country is having trouble matching sales from a few years
ago these two industries are busting records over and over and over again.

Wake up and smell the sewage..

Geo.

"Gary Britt"  wrote in message
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> Halliburton is one of the few companies in the world that can handle
certain
> things.  That's why Bill Clinton gave them a $1 Billion NO BID contract in
> Kosovo.  Duh....
>
> Bush-Overbey Oil Development Co. is an insignificant (now defunct?) tiny
> company when it comes to the oil business.
>
> If your criteria applied across the board the only people who could become
> president without being deemed automatically a crook if the economy does
> better is somebody who either a) never worked in the private sector or b)
> was never successful at rising past the mail room in the private sector or
> c) a person whose only work experience is in working for government.
>
> Why is it that your formula doesn't strike me as leading to the best and
the
> brightest serving our country?  Could it be your formula is biased against
> smart successful people and in favor of bureaucratic, never had to meet a
> payroll with their own money, rose to the top through political
gamesmanship
> only kinda of guys.
>
> Not a good plan, George.
>
> Gary
>
>
> "Geo"  wrote in message
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> > I'm not talking about just owning stock Mark. Cheney was CEO. Bush1 was
> CEO
> > of Bush-Overbey Oil Development Co.. You have those kind of connections?
> >
> > This is sort of like if I were to become president and suddenly Netlink
> > Services got the US government contract to host the .gov domain. You
> > wouldn't have a problem with that would you Mark?
> >
> > Geo.
> >
> > "Mark"  wrote in message
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> > > Everyone is connected to the oil industry Geo (and their profit
margins
> > are
> > > less than typical industries in the U.S.). We're all also inexorably
> > > connected to the defense industry (I'm not sure of their profits at
the
> > > moment, but it ebbs and flows).
> >
> >
>
>

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