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To: michael97123 who wrote (23227)	1/6/2004 7:18:54 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793622

No Americans will do the scut work required at the wages offered and these folks I know the argument. Seems to me we should be studying why not and the implications of that. There are examples of other countries, like Saudi Arabia, that let that happen. Not a good thing. Anyway, I wasn't advocating shutting out the strong backs, just getting a better mix. We need educated people, too, to do the jobs that our education system increasingly obviates filling by our own people. We need to fill the jobs that our people won't do. And we need to fill the jobs that our people increasingly can't do.

To: michael97123 who wrote (23227)	1/6/2004 7:20:05 PM
From: kumar	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793622

my neighbor's 18 year old kid does lawns between spring and fall ($35/cut), and busses at a local restaurant every weekend. He is American. I dont buy your line of thought.

To: michael97123 who wrote (23227)	1/6/2004 8:08:41 PM
From: Sully-	Respond to of 793622

US Army Clears Halliburton of Wrongdoing in Iraq Fuel Shipments Alex Belida Pentagon 06 Jan 2004, 22:21 UTC The U.S. Army has apparently cleared a firm once run by Vice President Dick Cheney of wrongdoing in connection with fuel deliveries to Iraq. Pentagon auditors say the Army Corps of Engineers has concluded a subsidiary of the Halliburton company charged what are considered fair and reasonable prices for fuel deliveries it made to Iraq. The auditors say that as soon as they receive a formal certification to this effect, their probe into alleged overcharges by the firm will be concluded. Pentagon officials last month indicated Halliburton's Kellogg Brown and Root subsidiary may have overcharged the U.S. government $61 million for fuel. But the firm denied any wrongdoing. It said it delivered fuel to Iraq at the best possible price from Kuwait. It also noted it had recommended purchasing cheaper fuel from Turkey but asserted the Army Corps of Engineers insisted on a fuel source in Kuwait. Halliburton has won billions of dollars in contracts in connection with the U.S. intervention in Iraq. But these deals have been criticized by some Democratic Party officials and others who have questioned whether they were a political reward to a firm once run by Vice President Dick Cheney. The Bush administration and Halliburton have denied politics played a role in the awarding of the contracts. voanews.com