NY Times Story on Pilot Population Decline

On Tue, 1 May 2007 09:02:25 -0500, "Gig 601XL Builder"
wrDOTgiaconaATsuddenlink.net wrote in
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Incidentally, I was surprised to hear that VP Cheney has over 400,000
shares of Halliburton options that are due when he leaves office in
2009. Isn't there at least a bit of conflict of interest there?

Those 400,000 shares were part of deffered compensation package from when he
worked there. Do you expect him to just give away $12.6 million dollars that
he earned?

Do you see any hint of a conflict of interest given the enormous
government no-bid contracts awarded to Halliburton?

Larry Dighera wrote:
On Tue, 1 May 2007 09:02:25 -0500, "Gig 601XL Builder"
wrDOTgiaconaATsuddenlink.net wrote in
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Incidentally, I was surprised to hear that VP Cheney has over
400,000 shares of Halliburton options that are due when he leaves
office in 2009. Isn't there at least a bit of conflict of interest
there?

Those 400,000 shares were part of deffered compensation package from
when he worked there. Do you expect him to just give away $12.6
million dollars that he earned?

Do you see any hint of a conflict of interest given the enormous
government no-bid contracts awarded to Halliburton?

So are we going to make a rule that a company can't do business with the
government if somebody who used to work for them is in government? This will
solve the homeless problem you are so worried about. They can be government
employees.

As far as no bid contract. There really aren't that many companies capable
of fulfilling the contract if any other than H.

"Gig 601XL Builder" wrDOTgiaconaATsuddenlink.net wrote in message
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Larry Dighera wrote:

Those 400,000 shares were part of deffered compensation package from
when he worked there. Do you expect him to just give away $12.6
million dollars that he earned?

Do you see any hint of a conflict of interest given the enormous
government no-bid contracts awarded to Halliburton?

So are we going to make a rule that a company can't do business with the
government if somebody who used to work for them is in government? This
will solve the homeless problem you are so worried about. They can be
government employees.

As far as no bid contract. There really aren't that many companies capable
of fulfilling the contract if any other than H.

How can any other company even attempt to "step up to the plate" if the
government refuses put the contracts up for bid?

Maxwell wrote:
"Gig 601XL Builder" wrDOTgiaconaATsuddenlink.net wrote in message
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Larry Dighera wrote:

Those 400,000 shares were part of deffered compensation package
from when he worked there. Do you expect him to just give away
$12.6 million dollars that he earned?

Do you see any hint of a conflict of interest given the enormous
government no-bid contracts awarded to Halliburton?

So are we going to make a rule that a company can't do business with
the government if somebody who used to work for them is in
government? This will solve the homeless problem you are so worried
about. They can be government employees.

As far as no bid contract. There really aren't that many companies
capable of fulfilling the contract if any other than H.

How can any other company even attempt to "step up to the plate" if
the government refuses put the contracts up for bid?

Name a company other than H that might have been able to "step up to the
plate" on this one. Doing everything by the lowest bid isn't always the best
or even the cheapest way to get things done.

Oh, don't get me wrong, the entire government procurement system is broken
and has been long before either Bush was in office.

Martin Hotze wrote:
On Tue, 1 May 2007 10:55:53 -0500, Gig 601XL Builder wrote:

Doing everything by the lowest bid isn't always the best
or even the cheapest way to get things done.

Isn't a thread running here claiming that pure capitalism is the best
solution? ;-)



There sure is and I'm on the pure capitalism side of it. What makes you
think that lowest bid = pure capitalism?

"Gig 601XL Builder" wrDOTgiaconaATsuddenlink.net wrote in message
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Larry Dighera wrote:
On Tue, 1 May 2007 09:02:25 -0500, "Gig 601XL Builder"
wrDOTgiaconaATsuddenlink.net wrote in
:

Incidentally, I was surprised to hear that VP Cheney has over
400,000 shares of Halliburton options that are due when he leaves
office in 2009. Isn't there at least a bit of conflict of interest
there?

So are we going to make a rule that a company can't do business with the
government if somebody who used to work for them is in government? This
will solve the homeless problem you are so worried about. They can be
government employees.

As far as no bid contract. There really aren't that many companies capable
of fulfilling the contract if any other than H.

And Halliburton, for that reason, has been getting no-bid contracts since
the early 90's.

(Note to the clueless and the mental basket cases (yes, YOU, Larry): Cheney
has only been VP since 2001.)