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...that Americans are indifferent to the obscene amounts of money that companies like Halliburton are making in Iraq with no-bid U.S. government contracts. Of course we are concerned about terrorism, but that doesn't mean we're not frustrated by seeing the Halliburtons of the country make a profit from American taxpayers. Woe to those politicians who continue to underestimate the intelligence and awareness of the 2004 voter. Jane Vinson-Kafura Lac du Flambeau...
...where full-year profits fell 59% in 2003, and operating profits in major shareholder François Pinault's luxury-goods businesses dropped 19%. Meanwhile, PPR rival LVMH announced 2003 operating profit increases of 21% at Christian Dior Couture. Let the logo wars begin. Offshoring? Maybe Next Year The U.S. Senate overwhelmingly passed legislation last week barring American companies that win government contracts from moving the work offshore. While Democrats cheered the passage and accused George W. Bush of failing to stem the flow of jobs abroad, U.S. businesses protested. General Electric warned regulators that such protectionism could hinder...
...acknowledge that there was profit to be gained,” he says...
...find your shirt ‘Voting Is For Old People’ to be an anti-American abomination,” Punkvote.com board member Al Jourgensen wrote in an open letter. “It is a disgusting effort to reap profit from cynicism...
Surely Kavulla would profit from the readings as well. Granted that there are weeks when I assign almost 200 pages, but the richness of the material would keep him going. For example, we are about to read former U.S. Secretary of Labor Robert Reich’s new history of radical conservatives. Reich describes how these “Radcons,” as he calls them, have used backing from conservative billionaires to build up an army of broadcasters and pundits. They have thereby succeeded in mainstreaming ideas once propounded only on the extreme-right fringes of American society...