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Politics : Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Kerry -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Dan B. who wrote (66844)	9/11/2005 2:57:04 PM
From: Skywatcher	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 81568

Gore and his VP wouldn't have been on a vacation and if they had been anywhere in the world...they would have returned and been there IMMEDIATELY...John Edwards WOULD NEVER LEAVE THE POOR and BLACKS LIKE THAT!.....he recognized the TWO AMERICAS long ago and his speeches were not just BS like those of the current administration....and certainly not like the devil Cheney who only reappeared after the Halliburton card was dealt and who ONLY talked with people in Republican areas that didn't get hit so hard....

To: Dan B. who wrote (66844)	9/11/2005 2:57:55 PM
From: Skywatcher	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81568

You should have guessed why he passed such an order. Bush allies secure Post-Katrina rebuilding contracts Companies with ties to the White House and the former head of FEMA have clinched some of the administration's first disaster relief and reconstruction contracts in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. At least two major corporate clients of lobbyist Joe Allbaugh, President George W Bush's former campaign manager and a former head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), have already been tapped to start recovery work along the battered Gulf Coast. One is Shaw Group and the other is Halliburton-subsidiary Kellogg Brown and Root (KBR). Vice President Dick Cheney is a former head of Halliburton. Bechtel National, 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. Mr Bush named Bechtel's chief executive to his Export Council and put the former chief executive of Bechtel Energy in charge of the Overseas Private Investment Corporation. Mr Allbaugh is also a friend of Michael Brown, director of FEMA who was removed as head of Katrina disaster relief and sent back to Washington amid allegations he had padded his resume. Experts say it has been common practice in both Republican and Democratic administrations for policy makers to take lobbying jobs once they leave office, and many of the same companies seeking contracts in the wake of Hurricane Katrina have already received billions of dollars for work in Iraq. Halliburton alone has earned more than $US9 billion. Pentagon audits released by Democrats in June showed $US1.03 billion in "questioned" costs and $422 million in "unsupported" costs for Halliburton's work in Iraq. The web of Bush administration connections is attracting renewed attention from watchdog groups in the post-Katrina reconstruction rush. Congress has already appropriated more than $US60 billion in emergency funding as a down payment on recovery efforts projected to cost well over $US100 billion. "The Government has got to stop stacking senior positions with people who are repeatedly cashing in on the public trust in order to further private commercial interests," said Danielle Brian, executive director of the Project on Government Oversight. abc.net.au