BUSH-whacking of Military Bases BIG GAIN for TX & FLA ! ! !

"President Bush's home state of Texas could gain more than 9,000 military jobs, primarily in El Paso and San Antonio, even while losing four major installations and several smaller ones. Florida, where the president's brother Jeb is governor, would add 2,575 jobs overall while losing none of its bases."

Full piece By JOHN J. LUMPKIN,
Associated Press Writer
Sat May 14, 2:08 PM ET

http://story.news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050514/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/base_closings

Guess!! Halliburton.
the f ing greed is over the top. Plus the 70 million dollar bonus.

money. No corporation that is trying to provide high rates of return for investors, with executives earning HUGE salaries and getting large blocks of preferred stock, is going to be able to provide services like feeding the troops at a rate that is cheaper than what the military was doing for itself. The difference in executive pay scale alone is tens, if not hundreds of millions of dollars. The taxpayer is getting royally screwed on this deal.

What's worse is that, in certain situations in Iraq, companies like Halliburton didn't provide services at all---services like DRINKING WATER, which they failed to deliver because they weren't willing to operate in a combat zone. Fucking great. You have reservists in their 40s literally keeling over from lack of water in the high heat, while Dirty Dick and Crazy-Don Rumsfeld are lining the pockets of their friends.

Halliburton, in particular, is in the War for Oil business. They build military bases, feeding and housing the troops, they provide Oil field services and pipline construction... Dick Cheney has been planning this for a long time, apparently. The company that he was CEO of is perfectly positioned to profit from American wars of conquest. We provide the bodies, and Dick provides the wars.

...and he was a repub

If you haven't watch the documentary "The Carlyle Group." It shows how they profit from war. Even though they're gaining a lot of people are pissed off at this. On the local news they interviewed an older man (in his fifties or sixties I'd say) and he was pretty pissed off and thought it was ridiculous. So maybe this could help open some more eyes.

you could'a been a contend'a now yer just a bum.

bullshit. Just look at who's profiting. Duh.

Just curious

We're losing over 7000 jobs and the economy in the state can't absorb that easily.

~4800 military jobs leaving Ft. Knox and being replaced with about 1800 civilian jobs.

Bases are draining away from the blue and NE states and being beefed up in the south.

I think that was in the NY Times article yesterday. I'll see if I can find it.

Does anyone else find that a little frightening? Are they fortifying for something????