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pilsner Donating Member (227 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-08-09 11:48 PM
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Which is most evil: Goldman Sachs, Halliburton, or General Electric?
Edited on Wed Jul-08-09 11:58 PM by pilsner
Goldman Sachs-parasites engineering bubbles and busts.

Halliburton-Dick Cheney's old company made billions from Iraq. Moved to Dubai to evade taxes.

General Electric-pioneered the off-shoring of jobs to India under leadership of ex-CEO Jack Welch.
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LSdemocrat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-08-09 11:52 PM
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1. Halliburton. Organized, professional, highly-connected war profiteering trumps everything else
The other two are just run of the mill business shenanigans that are inevitable in an underregulated market.
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spag68 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-09-09 12:18 AM
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2. Evil
Evil is everywhere in american corporations, but at least GE makes things, things like wind turbines and very efficient jet engines. Welch has been gone for some time now and good riddance. Don't GE owns MSNBC, and allows the 8 and 9 time slots to represent us. GS is at the top with Halliburton a close second.
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OnyxCollie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-09-09 12:41 AM
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3. Halliburton/KBR.
Moved to Dubai/Cayman Islands to get around the embargo against Iran.

Made numerous changes to task orders in Iraq, delaying the completion and increasing the costs. (While the recalibrating of the oil meters was being delayed, billions in oil was being smuggled out through the channels Saddam used during the Oil for Food campaign.)

Are the direct manifestation of cheney's id.

I could go on, but you get the idea.
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ColbertWatcher Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-09-09 12:49 AM
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4. Halliburton: serves no other purpose but war. n/t
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abumbyanyothername Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-09-09 12:51 AM
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5. Monsanto. nt
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billyoc Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-09-09 03:00 AM
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6. Halliburton and GE are like Ben and fucking Jerry compared to Goldman Sachs.
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armyowalgreens Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-09-09 04:38 AM
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7. Changed my mind. Dow Chemical.
Edited on Thu Jul-09-09 04:42 AM by armyowalgreens
They now own Union Carbide and they have a long record of doing some horrifying things.
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OHdem10 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-09-09 05:26 AM
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8. To be fair, now GE is making efforts to become a more responsible
Corporate Citizen. Imelt has publicly acknowledged that all of
those involved in the decision to make America a Service Industry
Country were wrong. With Mfg at only 10% of the economy, this
country cannot be sustained. In other words a Service Economy
cannot sustain this country. Too many people at too low wages.
He is planning to put new jobs in this country. He says I would
that the current state of country be viewed as my generations
legacy.

Remember Congress permitted these conditions to develop with
their policies and support of Wall Street.

I hate Corporatism as much as any one, but I also believe
in fairness.
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