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To: LindyBill who wrote (14930)	11/3/2003 1:08:55 AM
From: KLP	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793632

It'll be interesting to see if you get a reply to that LB! Most people don't realize that an after tax, after expense profit of 2-3% is very good indeed.

To: LindyBill who wrote (14930)	11/3/2003 11:16:03 AM
From: MSI	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793632

Be a patriot, show the true costs of service, and supply that for 10% over. These are not mysterious arguments to anyone who has run a company. It will not happen without political leadership to ask companies to help their country. Nor when political leaders gain hundreds of millions in campaign funds from profiteers. Halliburton is a good case in point -- the excuse they make for profiteering is : "that's not too high a price for delivery of gasoline in a war zone". Wrong. That is not a patriot's response. The point isn't one of market conditions. It is one of cost. A non-profiteering patriot responds this way: "Here are my actual costs, and here is what I will charge, 10% over that". In fact, no such argument will be entertained by anyone in Congress or the kleptocracy, since it cuts the windfall profiteering revenues, which are in turn skimmed into the pockets of their bedfellows in Washington who feed them. It stinks. It doesn't work to try to make a mystery out of it.