>>Or... does anyone have good statistics on total tuition money paid versus Halliburton's net profits from defense contracts? Or versus the few trillion bucks unaccounted for in the DoD?
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>Over the course of 20 years, the Pentagon has paid, in net college benefits, a total of approximately $9.1 billion, or an average of less than $466 million per year.
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>http://www.afsc.org/pwork/0506/050607.htm
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>I don't know if these are "facts" on this page, but they are clearly against the program. I can say I didn't have any issues getting the money for my education from the ARMY.

Hm... all of a sudden there is ARMY, but when you ask the wrong person, they usually say "army - no way! I was a MARINE!". Go figure.

Anyway, that's $466 million a year. How long does it take Halliburton/KBR to rake in that much from the DoD contracts? A week? Two?

And the article makes it obvious that the latest data they have are from 2004, and that's not on everything - most of it is last century. Do we have any reason to believe that newer data would make this look better?