Originally posted by mythatsabigprobe
Except they're not 10,000 miles away, they're based right there in the middle east and have been for some time since they bailed out of their US
address, and Iraq can hardly be described as a "warzone". They go through no more risk in providing their astronomically inflated crap than any
other company delivering goods in an American city. I'm willing to bet that Walmart has more work related injuries in a year than Haliburton has had
in Iraq to date.
Just in case you thought I was talking out of my ass, here is
Haliburton's Injury Rate for the last six years and a page
on
Walmart's Injury Rates.
[edit on 11/9/2007 by mythatsabigprobe]

I am going to have to ask you nicely to reconsider. Iraq is a warzone. US service members drive in convoys of armored vehicals everyday in Iraq for
a reason.
Second, you can't use a document trash talking Walmart as proof. Sure a lot of people may slip and fall in Walmart everyday. Walmart also has more
customers and most likely many more employes than the US has in Iraq. You also have to consider the how bad the injurys are.
KBR run defacts that are targeted by mortars. KBR runs convoys on roads which are targeted with complex attacks and IED's. To state that they are
taking no more risk providing their goods in Iraq then companys providing goods in the US is a huge understatement.
The real problem that is going on here is more along the lines of what they OP was saying. These products may be overpriced even when you take into
consideration the saftey factors this these companys must face. Surely there must be another company willing to do the same job for a more reasonable
price.
The US govenment might have picked companys with political ties to scratch a friends back. This is something that has been brought up before and this
video spreading what is going on to the masses. That is that the government could be using taxpayers money to pay off political friends and help
themselfs in the end.