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Atman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-11-10 08:41 PM
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Never mind "too big to fail." What about Halliburton and "too incompetent to exist?"
It seems as if everything it touches goes to shit. They bought the asbestos company, they poisoned our troops, they caused the Australian oil rig distaster. Nothing about this company seems to say "good." Virtually everything they do is a disaster -- disasters that makes Dick "Dick" Cheney and his colleagues billions of dollars. And yet, they continued to be considered "experts" in their field. Whatever the hell their field is. Sure, break up the big banks. But we also need to break up big corporate disasters like Halliburton.
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LakeSamish706 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-11-10 08:44 PM
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1. Well see, you just found their field... Experts at creating disasters, so we have solved that. n/t
Edited on Tue May-11-10 08:44 PM by LakeSamish706
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Xipe Totec Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-11-10 08:45 PM
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2. Do not confuse greed with incompetence
I guarantee you, they have the brain power to solve the problem.

What they don't have is the will to spend the money.

This is not an engineering failure; this is a management failure.
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lob1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-11-10 08:46 PM
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3. Halliburton should build a very big jail, then put themselves in it.
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Atman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-11-10 08:51 PM
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4. +100
sadly
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