Meanwhile, the media is reporting that The Halliburton Company, "Vice-President" Dick Cheney's old stomping ground, has soaked the American taxpayers for an extra $61 million under government contracts that were rewarded to them by the Bush Administration.
I originally commented back in March about the Bush-Cheney conflict-of-interest with respect to Halliburton, and Bush's insider trading scam at Harken Energy.
Then, in a follow up article in April entitled, Profiteers of destruction, the cost to taxpayers, I expressed my outrage at a LA Times article which reported on one Halliburton contract being worth $7 Billion (that's $7,000,000,000 for you public school victims), and even more importantly, that the contract was classified!
In other words, we taxpayers were being expected to foot the bill for the "rebuilding" of Iraq, the contract was given to Halliburton Company — the former CEO of which just happens to be the "Vice-President" — and we were not even allowed to know how the money was going to be spent. If this doesn't smell to high heaven, then your sniffer is broken!
Now, we discover that Halliburton has "overbilled" or "overcharged" the American taxpayer.
Of course, there is a talk of a Congressional investigation which may result in Halliburton having to "reimburse" the extra $61 Million.
Whether or not the government investigation goes anywhere, everyday Americans — who are currently struggling to find and keep jobs, put food on their tables, pay their ever-increasing utility bills, and pay the various extortion taxes to keep the government off of their backs — need to gear up and start asking some serious questions.
The first real question that these Americans should be asking is where is the rest of the $7 Billion going? How much of this cash has made its way into the coffers of the United Nations, Israel, and in the Administration's own personal Swiss bank accounts? And what are we getting for our money? The military machinery to continue a war without end, the objective of which is unclear and without nobility?
And the "opportunity" to allow our sons and daughters to die as "heroes" on foreign battlefields?
The creatures in government get the cash and the power, while our children get to shed their blood, becoming "heroes" for a global cause that the rulers call "democracy".
In a culture that has never known what true freedom really is, the American people are ill-prepared to defend freedom at home. It only stands to reason that they are equally as impotent at defending it abroad.
As more of our Constitutional rights are taken away in the name of "defending freedom" and "promoting democracy", one has to begin questioning what the Ruling Elite really mean by the word "democracy".
It may well be that the money being siphoned off the U.S. taxpayer, is funding a much more sinister and secret objective. Democracy is not our Constitutional form of government. And since it is not, the conclusion we must draw is that it is an alternate form of government. And judging from the rapid pace that our freedoms, and privacy are being taken away, it seems that Democracy may well be the exact antithesis of our representative form of government.
The dictionary* defines Democracy as, "The principles of social equality and respect for the individual within a community."
Principles for social equality? ... within a community? That sounds to me like Communism.
Are you willing to let your sons and daughters fight and die for that cause?
*The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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