> Halliburton (KBR) workers in Iraq paid 50 cents an hour
28 December 2005, 22:20
Um... maybe you didn’t read the part where it said that the contract was a cost-plus arangement. What this means is that KBR is paid the same % no matter what they bill the government. I bet you can’t guess what that % is? It’s 1%... Much MUCH less than you could make by going to your local credit union and pulling out a CD.
So, if the subcontractor is making $.50 an hour they make $.005 if they make $4.00 then they make $.04 The only difference is that in the current case the US government and taxpayers are paying 700% less to feed our soldiers and the people serving them are making 18x the standard annual salary in their country. Read the article.
Oh yeah, and about the 7 days a week 12 hours a day, that’s exactly what US citizens are working over there. Before you scream about profiteering maybe you should talk to some of those people working 90+ hour weeks 3000 miles from home without their friends, families, or a private bathroom and you would discover by and large they’ve there for an opportunity none of them could have dreamed of, sending their kids to college, getting out of debt, helping the sons and daughters in our military, and being more lonely than you could imagine.
Um... maybe you didn’t read the part where it said that the contract was a cost-plus arangement. What this means is that KBR is paid the same % no matter what they bill the government. I bet you can’t guess what that % is? It’s 1%... Much MUCH less than you could make by going to your local credit union and pulling out a CD.
So, if the subcontractor is making $.50 an hour they make $.005 if they make $4.00 then they make $.04 The only difference is that in the current case the US government and taxpayers are paying 700% less to feed our soldiers and the people serving them are making 18x the standard annual salary in their country. Read the article.
Oh yeah, and about the 7 days a week 12 hours a day, that’s exactly what US citizens are working over there. Before you scream about profiteering maybe you should talk to some of those people working 90+ hour weeks 3000 miles from home without their friends, families, or a private bathroom and you would discover by and large they’ve there for an opportunity none of them could have dreamed of, sending their kids to college, getting out of debt, helping the sons and daughters in our military, and being more lonely than you could imagine.