Bush=FDR?

[Paddy]

Everybody criticizes FDR for his huge expansion of government and transfer of wealth.  Isn't GWB doing the same thing, but benefitting other recipients?  First, destroy Iraq using the military funded by taxpayer dollars.  Then, rebuild Iraq by way of no bid contracts with virtually unlimited funding from the U.S. taxpayer.  Keep the ball rolling with talk of 'stay the course' and 'democritization' while the make work projects continue.  In the meantime, these companies and their stockholders get rich at our expense:

Contractor   Value   Value FY02                  Agency
Abt Associates Inc.
Iraq    $43,818,278       USAID

Advanced Systems Development, Inc.
Iraq    $259,958.56       DoD

AECOM
Iraq    $21,610,501       DoD

Alexander, Deborah Lynn
Afghanistan    $168,625       USAID

AllWorld Language Consultants
Iraq    $4,051,349       DoD

American International Contractors, Inc.
Iraq    $1,500,000,000       DoD

American President Lines Ltd.
Iraq    $5,000,000       USAID

Anteon International Corporation
Afghanistan    $6,800,000       DoD

AOS, Inc.
Iraq    $866,988       DoD

Artel
Iraq            

Atlas Case, Inc.
Iraq    $17,243       DoD

Bald Industries
Iraq    $35,734       DoD

Baldino, George F.
Afghanistan    $263,000       USAID

Bea Mauer, Inc.
Iraq    $9,920       DoD

BearingPoint Inc.
Afghanistan    $64,100,00       USAID

BearingPoint Inc.
Iraq    $240,162,668       USAID

Bechtel Group Inc.
Iraq    $2,829,833,859       USAID

Blackwater Security Consulting L.L.C.
Iraq    $21,331,693       DoD

CACI International Inc.
Iraq    $66,221,143.19       Interior

Camp Dresser & McKee Inc.
Afghanistan    $1,700,000       USAID

Capital Shredder Corporation
Iraq    $11,803       DoD

Cartridge Discounters
Iraq    $40,492       DoD

CDW Government, Inc.
Iraq    $35,174       DoD

Cellhire USA
Iraq    $1,465,983       DoD

CH2M Hill
Iraq    $1,528,500,000       DoD

Chemonics International Inc.
Afghanistan    $167,759,000       USAID

Chugach McKinley, Inc.
Iraq    $3,068,407       DoD

Comfort Inn
Iraq    $47,324       DoD

Complement, Inc., The
Iraq    $3,358       DoD

Contrack International Inc.
Iraq    $2,325,000,000       DoD

Contrack International Inc.
Afghanistan    $500,000,000       DoD

Creative Associates International Inc.
Afghanistan    $60,000,000       USAID

Creative Associates International Inc.
Iraq    $273,539,368       USAID

Cybex International
Afghanistan    $4,838       DoD

Dataline Inc.
Iraq    $1,028,851.89       DoD

Dell Marketing L.P.
Iraq    $513,678.88       DoD

Detection Monitoring Technologies
Iraq    $5,584,482       DoD

Development Alternatives Inc.
Iraq    $39,523,857       USAID

Development Alternatives Inc.
Afghanistan    $9,594,000       USAID

DHS Logistics Company
Afghanistan    $378,000   $288,000   DoD

DHS Logistics Company
Iraq    $223,497       DoD

Diplomat Freight Services Inc.
Afghanistan    $2,604,276   $2,604,000   State

DynCorp (Computer Sciences Corp.)
Afghanistan    $43,559,421   $130,000   State

DynCorp (Computer Sciences Corp.)
Iraq    $50,000,000       State

Earth Tech, Inc.
Iraq    $65,449,155       DoD

EGL Eagle Global Logistics
Iraq    $111,000       USAID

EHI Company
Iraq    $3,956       DoD

Electric Generator Store, The
Iraq    $6,974       DoD

Environmental Chemical Corporation
Iraq    $1,475,000,000       DoD

EOD Technology Inc.
Iraq    $71,900,000       DoD

Expedited World Cargo Inc.
Iraq    $55,004       USAID

Explosive Ordnance Technologies Inc.
Iraq    $1,475,000,000       DoD

Export Depot
Iraq    $21,182       DoD

Federal Data Corporation
Afghanistan    $1,991,770       DoD

Fluor Corp.
Iraq    $3,754,964,295       DoD

Force 3
Iraq    $274,651.95       DoD

Foster Wheeler Co.
Iraq    $8,416,985       DoD

General Electric Company
Iraq    Value Unknown       DoD

General Electric Company
Afghanistan    $8,525,498       DoD

Giesecke & Devrient America
Iraq    $72,700       DoD

Global Container Lines Ltd.
Iraq    $1,850,000       USAID

Global Professional Solutions
Iraq    $590,232       DoD

Global Services
Iraq    $910,468       DoD

GPS Store, Inc., The
Iraq    $19,761       DoD

GTSI Corp
Afghanistan    $70,220       DoD

Hardware Associates
Iraq    $4,304       DoD

Harris Corporation
Iraq    $165,000,000       DoD

Inglett and Stubbs LLC
Iraq    $1,826,974       DoD

Inglett and Stubbs LLC
Afghanistan    $6,348,271       DoD

Intelligent Enterprise Solutions
Iraq    $19,835       DoD

International American Products Inc.
Iraq    $628,421,252       DoD

International American Products Inc.
Afghanistan    $20,080,636   $683,000   DoD

International Global Systems, Inc.
Iraq    $157,383.40       DoD

International Resources Group
Afghanistan        $1,230,000   USAID

International Resources Group
Iraq    $38,000,000       USAID

J & B Truck Repair Service
Afghanistan        $1,353,477   DoD

John S. Connor Inc.
Iraq    $34,153       USAID

JSI Inc.
Iraq    $3,376       DoD

Kellogg, Brown & Root (Halliburton)
Iraq    $10,832,000,000       DoD

Kellogg, Brown & Root (Halliburton)
Afghanistan    $599,000,000   $114,999,000   DoD

Kollsman Inc
Iraq            

Kroll Inc.
Iraq    Value Unknown       USAID

Kropp Holdings
Iraq    $11,880,000       DoD

Lab Safety Supply
Iraq    $53,379       DoD

Laguna Construction Company, Inc.
Iraq    $19,536,683       DoD

LandSea Systems, Inc.
Iraq    $47,750       DoD

Landstar Express America Inc.
Iraq    $24,396       USAID

Liberty Shipping Group Ltd.
Iraq    $7,300,000       USAID

Logenix International L.L.C.
Iraq    $29,000       USAID

Louis Berger Group
Afghanistan    $10,228,894 - $300,000,000   $5,229,000
   USAID

Louis Berger Group
Iraq    $27,671,364       DoD

Lucent Technologies World Services, Inc.
Iraq    $75,000,000       DoD

Management Systems International
Afghanistan    $14,700,000       USAID

Management Systems International
Iraq    $15,116,328       USAID

McNeil Technologies, Inc.
Iraq    $716,651       DoD

Mediterranean Shipping Company
Iraq    $13,000       USAID

MEI Research Corporation
Iraq            

Michael Baker Jr., Inc.
Afghanistan    $1,471,238       DoD

Michael Baker Jr., Inc.
Iraq    $4,528,328       DoD

Midwest Research Institute
Iraq    $1,765,000       DoD

Military Professional Resources Inc.
Iraq    $2,608,794.74       DoD

Miscellaneous Foreign Contract
Iraq    $3,026,630       DoD

Miscellaneous Foreign Contract
Afghanistan    $10,463,180       DoD

Motorola Inc.
Iraq    $15,591,732       DoD

MZM Inc.
Iraq    $1,213,632       DoD

NANA Pacific
Iraq    $70,000,000       DoD

Native American Industrial Distributors Inc.
Iraq    $123,572       DoD

Night Vision Equipment Company
Iraq    $153,118       DoD

Nuttall, James S.
Afghanistan        $187,000   USAID

Ocean Bulkships Inc.
Iraq    $5,000,000       USAID

Odebrect-Austin
Iraq    $1,500,000,000       DoD

Outfitter Satellite, Inc.
Iraq    $33,203       DoD

PAE Government Services Inc.
Afghanistan    $7,007,158   $5,714,000   State

Paro, Amy K.
Afghanistan    $94,457   $94,000   USAID

Parsons Corp.
Iraq    $5,286,136,252       DoD

Parsons Energy and Chemicals Group
Iraq    $43,361,340       DoD

Perini Corporation
Iraq    $2,525,000,000       DoD

Perini Corporation
Afghanistan    $14,000,000 - $25,000,000       DoD

Raytheon Aerospace LLC
Afghanistan    $91,096,464   $2,044,000   DoD

Raytheon Technical Services
Iraq    $12,412,573       DoD

Reabold, Miguel (Michael)
Afghanistan    $136,603       USAID

Readiness Management Support LC (Johnson Controls Inc.)
Afghanistan    $40,792,343   $828,000   DoD

Readiness Management Support LC (Johnson Controls Inc.)
Iraq    $173,965,104       USAID

Red River Computer Company
Iraq    $972,592.90       DoD

Redcom Laboratories
Afghanistan    $24,375       DoD

Research Triangle Institute
Iraq    $466,070,508       USAID

Ronco Consulting Corporation
Iraq    $12,008,289.60       DoD

Ronco Consulting Corporation
Afghanistan    $12,423,633   $6,771,000   USAID / State / DoD

S&C Electric Company
Afghanistan    $34,800       DoD

S&K Technologies Inc.
Iraq    $4,950,384.80       DoD

Sampler, Donald L.
Afghanistan    $81,000       USAID

Science Applications International Corp.
Iraq    $159,304,219       DoD

Sealift Inc.
Iraq    $4,000,000       USAID

Segovia Inc.
Iraq    $320,636       DoD

SETA Corporation
Iraq    $3,165,765       DoD

Shaw Group/Shaw E & I
Iraq    $3,050,749,910       DoD

Signature Science
Iraq    $4,704,464       DoD

Simmonds Precision Products
Iraq    $4,412,488       DoD

SkyLink Air and Logistic Support (USA) Inc.
Iraq    $27,344,600       USAID

Smith Office Machines Corporation
Iraq    $2,961       DoD

Social Impact Inc.
Afghanistan    $1,875,000       USAID

Sodexho Inc.
Afghanistan    $324,120   $324,000   State

SPARCO
Iraq    $9,215       DoD

Stanley Baker Hill L.L.C.
Iraq    $1,200,000,000       DoD

Stanley Consultants
Iraq    $7,709,767       DoD

Staples National Advantage
Iraq    $4,194       DoD

Stevedoring Services of America
Iraq    $14,318,895       USAID

Stratex Freedom Services
Afghanistan    $1,978,175       DoD

Structural Engineers
Iraq    $1,113,000       DoD

TECO Ocean Shipping Co.
Iraq    $7,200,000       USAID

Tekontrol, Inc.
Afghanistan    $85,146       DoD

Tetra Tech Inc.
Iraq    $1,541,947,671       DoD

Titan Corporation
Iraq    $402,000,000       DoD

Total Business
Iraq    $4,696       DoD

Transfair North America International
Iraq    $19,351       USAID

Triumph Technologies
Iraq    $228,924       DoD

Tryco Inc.
Afghanistan    $400,000       DoD

Unisys Corporation
Iraq    $320,000       DoD

United Defense Industries, L.P.
Iraq    $4,500,000       DoD

University of Nebraska at Omaha
Afghanistan    $7,072,468       USAID

USA Environmental Inc.
Iraq    $1,541,947,671       DoD

Vinnell Corporation (Northrop Grumman)
Iraq    $48,074,442       DoD

Ward Transformer Sales & Services
Iraq    $115,000       DoD

Washington Group International
Iraq    $3,133,078,193       DoD

Washington Group International
Afghanistan    $500,000 - $500,000,000       DoD

WECSYS
Iraq    $3,040       DoD

Weston Solutions, Inc.
Iraq    $16,279,724       DoD

World Fuel Services Corp.
Afghanistan    $19,762,792       DoD

Young, Brian
Afghanistan    $106,150   $39,000   State

Zapata Engineering
Iraq    $1,478,838,958       DoD


Sorry about the formatting, but you get the idea.  GWB is funnelling public funds into private hands, same as FDR.  And I didn't even start on the Medicare prescription drug ripoff yet.

[griz]

The rebuilding of New Orleans will add a few billion to the total as well.

[grampster]

Hmmmmmm.  Need to call my broker.  Good list of companies to buy stock in.  That way I get my share of my tax dollars back plus.  If everone who had a 401K at work that was self directed, I wonder whether it might not just pay off?

[Paddy]

Good idea, grampster, but the market has already adjusted so I think you're too late.   The time to get it would have been just before these contracts were awarded.

[TarpleyG]

Hmmmmmm.  Need to call my broker.  Good list of companies to buy stock in.  That way I get my share of my tax dollars back plus.  If everone who had a 401K at work that was self directed, I wonder whether it might not just pay off?

Check out URS.  I have been consistently getting a 10%-25% return over the year.  Granted, I don't own a lot of shares but I would if I had the money.

Greg

[richyoung]

Micheal Moore has made more off of the Gulf War than haliburtan has - I see not many out in cyberspace understand how closely contracts, especially no-bid contracts, are overseen these days...

[Paddy]

George Bush is FDR, but in reverse.  Or maybe he's LBJ, who was also responsible for a huge transfer of public wealth with his 'War on Poverty'.  One thing is for sure, this President and this Republican congress are no friend of the working wage earner.   They've borrowed huge sums of money for the 'War on Terror' and laid the burden of repayment on all of us far into the future.    Now I'm nearly 60, so my wage earning days will be over in a few years.  You young people, however, are going to pay for this for the rest of your working lives in the form of increased taxes.

[K Frame]

"Science Applications International Corp.
Iraq     $159,304,219         DoD"

Until 5:30 p.m. easter this afternoon, SAIC paid my salary.

Thank you for your tax dollars.