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2008:

Darrell Issa (R-Calif) $164,650,039 $251,025,020 $337,400,002
Jane Harman (D-Calif) $112,318,335 $244,796,667 $377,275,000
Herb Kohl (D-Wis) $163,510,027 $214,570,011 $265,629,996
Mark Warner (D-Va) $73,315,204 $209,700,598 $346,085,992
John Kerry (D-Mass) $158,643,501 $208,801,275 $258,959,049
Jared Polis (D-Colo) $50,737,134 $158,173,566 $265,609,998
Vernon Buchanan (R-Fla) $-68,340,597 $142,432,692 $353,205,982
Jay Rockefeller (D-WVa) $60,196,019 $94,306,010 $128,416,002
Frank R Lautenberg (D-NJ) $47,632,169 $74,744,094 $101,856,020
Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif) $42,912,257 $72,380,637 $101,849,018

OMG there are politicians who are RICH... with family fortunes...
I cant believe a conservative is bitching about the RICH

I wonder how much of that was selling to the Nazi's as the Bush's have done

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In fact, Carlyle is the country�s 11th largest defense contractor.

Who's the top 10?

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In 2002, it received $677 million in government contracts

2002 top 10:
LOCKHEED MARTIN CORP $21,739,795,810
BOEING CO. $17,716,141,291
NORTHROP GRUMMAN CORP. $12,493,273,982
GENERAL DYNAMICS CORP. $8,844,751,765
UNIVERSITY OF CALIF SYSTEM $7,691,225,032
RAYTHEON CO. $7,115,908,054
BAE SYSTEMS $4,210,120,312
COMPUTER SCIENCES CORP. $3,971,018,363
UNITED TECHNOLOGIES CORP. $3,777,718,969
BECHTEL GROUP, INC. $3,709,759,136

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and in 2003, it was awarded contracts worth another $2.1 billion.

2003 top 10:
LOCKHEED MARTIN CORP $25,813,121,632
BOEING CO. $16,885,685,303
NORTHROP GRUMMAN CORP. $12,608,382,122
UNIVERSITY OF CALIF SYSTEM $12,155,174,132
GENERAL DYNAMICS CORP. $9,919,396,079
RAYTHEON CO. $7,011,094,360
BAE SYSTEMS $4,555,455,472
SCIENCE APPLICATIONS INTL CORP $4,519,427,574
KBR INC. $4,409,208,855
UNITED TECHNOLOGIES CORP. $4,073,781,273

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Business has definitely improved for the firm since Jr. took office. For example, one of its subsidiaries, Vought Aircraft, now holds over $1 billion in defense contracts. Prior to 2001, the company's future was iffy at best. Right before 9/11, it had actually laid off 20% of its workforce. But low and behold, business picked right back up with the air strikes on Afghanistan and the war in Iraq.

Aircraft/airframe:
BOEING CO. $84,372,648,109
LOCKHEED MARTIN CORP $55,676,355,675
UNITED TECHNOLOGIES CORP. $12,303,883,888
BELL BOEING JOINT PROGRAM $10,380,618,455
NORTHROP GRUMMAN CORP. $9,055,372,551
TEXTRON, INC. $4,839,998,325
HAWKER BEECHCRAFT CORPORATION $3,483,836,663
L-3 COMMUNICATIONS HOLDINGS $2,730,528,955
GENERAL ATOMICS TECH CORP $1,650,937,709
GENERAL DYNAMICS CORP. $1,092,788,457

Aircraft components/accessories:
BOEING CO. $4,591,782,818
LOCKHEED MARTIN CORP $4,064,970,668
UNITED TECHNOLOGIES CORP. $3,643,766,448
NORTHROP GRUMMAN CORP. $2,622,878,883
TEXTRON, INC. $2,047,324,502
RAYTHEON CO. $1,432,578,297
GOODRICH CORPORATION $1,247,103,395
BAE SYSTEMS $840,833,905
HONEYWELL, INC. $761,935,738
L-3 COMMUNICATIONS HOLDINGS $620,448,650

Vought wasn't in the top 10...looks like Boeing and Lockheed are making a killing, though.

Mike
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And there you go again... the nations top defense contractors with decades of building the weapons for our country and going thru bid process after bid process...


Lets see....

A war profiteer is any person or organization that improperly profits from warfare or by selling weapons and other goods to parties at war.

Then we have the Bush Empire with the Grand Vizar Cheney... built on decades of shady dealings with Nazis and the Bin Ladens... amoung many others.


War profiteer
Halliburton... no bid
War profiteer
Blackwater.. Private militia to the republican right wing...no bid.

And on and on...

http://iraqforsale.org/

You are comparing apples to rotten fruits... on more levels than just the obvious.

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OK, I will spell it out
I believe that the world 'hates' America,......

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You start from a false or incorrect premise to have any kind of rational discussion.

"America will never be destroyed from the outside,
if we falter and lose our freedoms,
it will be because we destroyed ourselves."
Abraham Lincoln

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So why all the anger?

Bush is out, so all this war profiteering is going to stop now, right?

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So why all the anger?

Bush is out, so all this war profiteering is going to stop now, right?

Now its time to start putting them in jail.

You are a taxpayer right?

They ripped off the American taxpayer... but I guess that is ok to you.

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In Reply To
OK, I will spell it out
I believe that the world 'hates' America,......
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You start from a false or incorrect premise to have any kind of rational discussion.

OK I believe that some of the world and perhaps a radical element of the world "Hates" America...... certainly a 'hate' that we promote as a REASON for the military that we have, yet still the rest of the argument remains that the military is at LEAST part of the cause of whatever 'hate' there is out there.

Now are you going to argue with me that there is NOT 'hatred' for America out there? And then are you going to argue with me that we do not in any way combat that hatred by spending fortunes on a military to fight said 'hate'?

George Bush never said anything about terrorists who 'hate' us? Is that the incorrect premise that I am basing all this on? wow, how could I be so wrong.....

no wonder we cannot have a rational discussion. Afterall - there is no 'hate' for America out there.....

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no wonder we cannot have a rational discussion. Afterall - there is no 'hate' for America out there.....

Hard to see any of it when you never leave Iowa and get your news from FAUX News, Newsmax and Lush Rimjob

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So why all the anger?

Bush is out, so all this war profiteering is going to stop now, right?

Now its time to start putting them in jail.

You are a taxpayer right?

They ripped off the American taxpayer... but I guess that is ok to you.

If they committed a crime, then put them in jail.

I'm not disagreeing with you on this, and no, ripping off taxpayers is not OK with me. Personally, I think penalties for crimes committed by elected officials are much to light.

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Halliburton... no bid

From 2000-2009, 99.2% of Halliburton's contracts are full and open competition, looks like the remainder is follow-on...or did you mean Bubba Jeff giving them the no-bid in the Balkans?

Maybe you should quit getting your talking points from Huff'n'puff post and their ilk.

Mike
I love you, Shannon and Jim.
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Halliburton... no bid

From 2000-2009, 99.2% of Halliburton's contracts are full and open competition, looks like the remainder is follow-on...or did you mean Bubba Jeff giving them the no-bid in the Balkans?

Maybe you should quit getting your talking points from Huff'n'puff post and their ilk.

SHOW DATAwhere you get that..

I think 99.2% of your posts are full of....... yeah you guessed it..

TEXAS STUFF

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Halliburton... no bid

From 2000-2009, 99.2% of Halliburton's contracts are full and open competition, looks like the remainder is follow-on...or did you mean Bubba Jeff giving them the no-bid in the Balkans?

Maybe you should quit getting your talking points from Huff'n'puff post and their ilk.

http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/06/10-5

US War Privatization Results in Billions Lost in Fraud, Waste and Abuse--Report
Half of the personnel the US has working on its wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are private contractors. A new report reveals how much of a rip-off this system has been to US taxpayers.

The single greatest beneficiary of the US wars in Iraq and Afghanistan is KBR, the former Halliburton subsidiary. KBR has been paid nearly $32 billion since 2001. In May, April Stephenson, director of the Defense Contract Audit Agency, testified that KBR was linked to “the vast majority” of war-zone fraud cases and a majority of the $13 billion in “questioned” or “unsupported” costs. According to Agency, it sent the inspector general “a total of 32 cases of suspected overbilling, bribery and other violations since 2004.”

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SHOW DATAwhere you get that..

I think 99.2% of your posts are full of....... yeah you guessed it..

TEXAS STUFF

The same place that I always get the real info to counter the idiocy from huff'n'puff, du and dkos about contracts - fedspending.
I can't seem to find KBR on here...

No-bids (2000-2009)
BOEING CO.
LOCKHEED MARTIN CORP
NORTHROP GRUMMAN CORP.
RAYTHEON CO.
GENERAL DYNAMICS CORP.
UNITED TECHNOLOGIES CORP.
UNIVERSITY OF CALIF SYSTEM
BAE SYSTEMS
CALIFORNIA INST OF TECHNOLOGY
GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY

Oh wait...there they are:
Full competition (2000-2009)
LOCKHEED MARTIN CORP
NORTHROP GRUMMAN CORP.
BOEING CO.
KBR INC. (teh DEBBILLLLLL)
GENERAL DYNAMICS CORP.
BECHTEL GROUP, INC.
SCIENCE APPLICATIONS INTL CORP teh OTHER DEBBILLLLL)
COMPUTER SCIENCES CORP.
RAYTHEON CO.
BAE SYSTEMS

Looks like it's Huff'n'puff that's full of 'stuff', huh?

Mike
I love you, Shannon and Jim.
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