a former halliburton executive was awarded a private contract overseeing parts of walter reed.....
and we ALL know what happened
Bush Administration push for privatization may have helped create Walter Reed 'disaster'
Ron Brynaert
The Bush Administration's drive for privatization may be responsible for the "deplorable" outpatient care for soldiers at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, according to a top Democratic Congressman investigating the scandal, which has already led to the resignation of the Secretary of the US Army.
A five-year, $120 million contract awarded to a firm run by a former executive from Halliburton – a multi-national corporation where Vice President Dick Cheney once served as CEO – will be probed at a Subcommittee on National Security and Foreign Affairs hearing scheduled for Monday............
.........Before the contract, over 300 federal employees provided facilities management services at Walter Reed, according to the memorandum, but that number dropped to less than 60 the day before IAP took over.
"Yet instead of hiring additional personnel, IAP apparently replaced the remaining 60 federal employees with only 50 IAP personnel," Waxman writes...........
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Why is every single goddamned thing about the Money with these people?
(sorry to swear in your comments)
I'm mad about this, like you wouldn't believe.
i WOULD believe it. this to me is so horrid, so evil. words cannot even describe how i feel and i NEVER served. i cannot fathom how we can spit upon these men and women. i cannot fathom why the country is NOT up in arms over this ALONE (not even anything else) damn
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