Halliburton Uses Illegals As Cheap Labor For New Orleans Clean-Up
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by Michael in New York - 10/25/2005 03:15:00 AM
Unbelievable. First Bush decides to "help" the recovery in Louisiana by making it legal for companies to pay substandard wages, even though the massive rebuilding effort needed after Hurricane Katrina should mean builders and laborers would be in high demand. Then we find out that most of the contracts are going to out-of-state companies.
Finally, and you can't make this up, USA Today reports that Halliburton subcontracted out work to companies that fired some 75 union electricians and then hired at least 10 illegal immigrants in their place. And where were they working? A naval base near New Orleans.
Five years into their regime, and Cheney and his pals can still surprise you with their nastiness and craven greed.
posted by Gary Brownlee @ 8:03 AM
2 Comments:
What doesn't surprise me anymore is how some people are willing to put their party loyalties above the country. Did you know that Dick Cheney's stock options with Halliburton have risen 3, 281% in just the last year?
Halliburton's no bid contracts are being looked into in New Orleans now so maybe they won't get away with it.
The "rebuiliding" of New Orleans was being planned in just the same way as the "rebuilding" of Iraq which is to say a boondoggle. You need to get your news from someplace other than Rupert Murdoch/Roger Ailes and Richard Mellon Scaife.
In another America that would have been called war profiteering and the people who lived in that America wouldn't have stood for it. I don't know whether you really belive this stuff that you're writing or whether you just like to argue. I hope you're bullshitting me.
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