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September 10, 2005
Guess who's gonna rebuild New Orleans with your tax dollars. Go ahead, guess.
Give up? I don't blame you. No way you'd ever guess this. It's Halliburton and Bechtel.
"What the-" you must be saying. "How on earth did those companies get their bids in so fast on those federal reconstruction contracts?" Silly reader, there weren't any bids.
Here's how CNN explains it:
At least two major corporate clients of lobbyist Joe Allbaugh, President Bush's former campaign manager and a former head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, have already been tapped to start recovery work along the battered Gulf Coast.One is Shaw Group Inc. and the other is Halliburton Co. subsidiary Kellogg Brown and Root. Vice President Dick Cheney is a former head of Halliburton.
Bechtel National Inc., a unit of San Francisco-based Bechtel Corp., has also been selected by FEMA to provide short-term housing for people displaced by the hurricane. Bush named Bechtel's CEO to his Export Council and put the former CEO of Bechtel Energy in charge of the Overseas Private Investment Corporation.
So for all you critics out there who've been saying the Bush administration can't respond fast in a crisis... read 'em and weep!
Posted by Bucky at September 10, 2005 08:58 PM | Permalink
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