November 3, 2025
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Where's All Our Stuff, Dick

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According to a Bloomberg story, Haliburton (You remember them, Dick Cheney’s old company that got an $87B no-bid contract that Dick had nothing to do with?) has apparently lost $18.6 million in government property. This constitutes about a third of the property assigned to them.

Government auditors couldn’t account for 6,975 of 20,531 items on the ledgers of Halliburton’s Kellogg Brown & Root unit, according to a report by Stuart Bowen, auditor for the coalition provisional authority inspector general, which oversees contractors. Halliburton is providing services to U.S. troops under a contract that has generated $3.2 billion in revenue so far.

Ah, what the hell, Bush can just give his fat cat friends another tax break, and squeeze the rest of us a little more. We’ve gotta keep the money rolling into Haliburton. I’m sure Dick (and probably George too) have a nice Board position waiting on them once they are out of government. We can only hope its soon.

B. John

B. John Masters writes about democracy, moral responsibility, and everyday Stoicism at deep.mastersfamily.org. A lifelong United Methodist committed to social justice, he explores how faith, ethics, and civic life intersect—and how ordinary people can live out justice, mercy, and truth in public life. A records and information management expert, Masters has lived in the Piedmont,NC, Dayton, OH, Greensboro, NC and Tampa, FL, and is a proud Appalachian State Alum.