The Center for American Progress will be out today with a report calling the BP disaster 'Cheney's Katrina':
'President Bush and Vice President Cheney consistently catered to Big Oil and other special interests to undercut renewable energy and energy efficiency initiatives that would set the U.S. on a more secure clean-energy path. Oil companies raked in record profits while benefitting from policies they wrote for themselves. These energy policies did nothing for our national security and left consumers to pay the price at the pump and on their energy bills, which rose more than $1,100 during the administration.'
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There's a lot more that Cheney was/is involved in. Look...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/arianna-huffington/offshore-corporate-tax-ha_b_596753.html
Excerpt: "Perhaps no company exemplifies the corporate class/middle class double standard more than KBR/Halliburton. The company got billions from U.S. taxpayers, then turned around and used a Cayman Island tax dodge to pump up its bottom line. As the Boston Globe's Farah Stockman reported, KBR, until 2007 a unit of Halliburton, "has avoided paying hundreds of millions of dollars in federal Medicare and Social Security taxes by hiring workers through shell companies based in this tropical tax haven."
It's worth reading the entire article, it makes your blood boil...
Uh...Don't know if you realize this or not, but...Bush and Cheney are no longer the Pres and Vice Pres...I think that we have all kicked the Halliburton horse enough.
And Cheney left Halliburton in 2000
So what is the point to this "relevant" article? I guess things are just SO BAD now that you all want to continue to look BACK at stuff to take your mind off of the BS that is going on now!
Like all cons, you obviously stick your head in the sand when hearing/reading something criminal or unfavorable about Cheney.
Google some and you'll find what you DON'T want to read. lol
https://www.sott.net/articles/show/113781-Cheney-still-profits-from-Halliburton-ties
Cheney still profits from Halliburton ties
See, that's why he's still in the news and for what he did in the past and present.
Google some and you'll find some gems while being a VP.
Okay. You read "Culture of Coruption" and see what is going on NOW. I think that's a bit more relevant, don't you?
As for the article. I read it. It was part of a package. He no longer works there. As the author of this very article states: "Nothing has emerged to directly contradict him" (when Cheney insists he hasn't been involved in any matters involving his old company.) So the point is??? If nothing "has emerged to contradict him" what is the point?
Call me old fashioned, but if something improper or illegal is going on---I want it prosecuted. No matter who it is. But when you talk about hiding your head in the sand? You refuse to see what is happening now. I think all of these career politicians are in it for the money and the connections that the position brings to them. It is on BOTH SIDES and it has to be stopped. It is what is corrupting our nation and what is going to kill us. Don't be blind. Just because you may like what your side is saying---if they are dirty---they need to be thrown out. Period. That is where you and I differ.
Drill Baby Drill. You cons have been wrong about absolutely positively everything.
Casey, years ago, one of my favorite Radio Action Heroes was The Shadow. The Shadow used to say: "The Evil that men do lives on long after they are gone."
The Shadow was all-wise and all-knowing.
It's clear to me that The Shadow was talking about the Bush-Cheney oil policies of the past eight years. And, now, The Shadow's wise words of wisdom are becoming crystal clear to most Americans.
Drill, Baby, Drill. Don't Regulate. Don't Enforce any Standards. That would be Socialism.
Actually, you are missing something very important. The stupid regulations that caused the drilling to be so far out there and down so deep that humans can't reach it, have in part added to the disaster. 2400 deep water wells have been drilled with no problems in 40 years. Yes, this is a disaster to beat all, but not being able to reach it is what is causing the inability to stop it.
Yes, we should be drilling, but not drilling where we cant reach. Your regulations have in part added to this problem. Regulations don't stop disasters.
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