>>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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>I fail to see where Halliburton's profits tie in to the GI bill (or whatever name it goes under these days).
So, the MGIB money comes from DoD, while Halliburton's contracts are with DoD, which is a completely separate entity, and is not the part of the same government nor is it a part of the same budget, and is surely not paid by the same taxpayers.
>Or where your exageration of "trillions" has any bearing on reality.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2003/05/18/MN251738.DTLhttp://www.dod.gov/speeches/2001/s20010716-secdef2.html, from which:
"SEC. RUMSFELD: Mr. Congressman, thank you very much. Your question is, of course, right at the heart of an enormously important issue for the Department of Defense. We have a panel in the Quadrennial Defense Review on this subject. We have met with it twice in the last two weeks. We're obviously going to have to meet with it again. It is a big, broad, complicated subject.
As you know, the Department of Defense really is not in charge of its civilian workforce, in a certain sense. It's the OPM, or Office of Personnel management, I guess. There are all kinds of long- standing rules and regulations about what you can do and what you can't do. I know Dr. Zakheim's been trying to hire CPAs because the financial systems of the department are so snarled up that we can't account for some $2.6 trillion in transactions that exist, if that's believable. And yet we're told that we can't hire CPAs to help untangle it in many respects."
http://www.dodig.osd.mil/Audit/reports/02report.htmhttp://www.rense.com/general24/spent.htmhttp://www.computerworld.com/managementtopics/management/itspending/story/0,10801,94392,00.htmlhttp://washingtontimes.com/upi-breaking/20040615-082100-3407r.htm
