No Du-Bid Contracts for Halliburton
Halliburton, the company formerly run by Vice President Dick Cheney, the company that has become the primary civilian contractor in Iraq, the company that the Bush Administration has tasked with caring for our troops (feeding them, etc.), the company that is supposed to be cleaning up New Orleans, is moving its corporate headquarters from Houston to Dubai. While it will maintain an office in Houston, it will essentially become a foreign company. And with the move, I think it is only appropriate to cut it off from the US taxpayer’s teat.
That’s right, if Halliburton can flee the country to set up shop elsewhere, then it should never get another no-bid contract from the US ever again. And it probably should never get a defense contract again, either, as I don’t think we should trust our national security to a foreign corporation. And it should probably lose its existing contracts, as becoming a foreign company should make it an unacceptable security risk for continuing its current work. At a minimum, any contract awarded to Halliburton should be paid minus the equivalent of what they would have owed on taxes had it stayed in the US.
In the final analysis, this has become outsourcing of our national security to a foreign company. I don’t think any of us should stand for it. So send an email to the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee and tell Chairman Waxman how insulted you are by Halliburton’s decision and how much you want him to address this issue.