Thursday, November 11, 2004
GLOBAL WARMING ON MARS: I blame Halliburton.
posted at 10:40 AM by Glenn Reynolds Permalink
Ok, here's the thing. Haliburton was an oil company once. Earle Haliburton was a hardworking texas sumbitch who believed in free enterprise and made it work.
He hated taxes and big government.
But the company now called Haliburton is the result of a merger between the oil field service company, Haliburton, and Brown and Root. H bought B&R, roughly equal sized companies, but serving totally different markets. It's probably fair to say the company today is "really" Brown and Root in sheep's clothing. Brown and Root made its first dollar in the public sector, building roads in Texas. It went on to build dams, johnson space center in houston, nuke plants, vietnam, somalia, bosnia, and now iraq.
No reason it couldn't be the biggest player in a nasa-funded mars gig.
The best investment the Brown brothers ever made was in Lyndon Johnson. Their invesment in W Bush isn't working out so bad either. It's not about oil. It's about looting taxpayers.
posted at 10:40 AM by Glenn Reynolds Permalink
Ok, here's the thing. Haliburton was an oil company once. Earle Haliburton was a hardworking texas sumbitch who believed in free enterprise and made it work.
He hated taxes and big government.
But the company now called Haliburton is the result of a merger between the oil field service company, Haliburton, and Brown and Root. H bought B&R, roughly equal sized companies, but serving totally different markets. It's probably fair to say the company today is "really" Brown and Root in sheep's clothing. Brown and Root made its first dollar in the public sector, building roads in Texas. It went on to build dams, johnson space center in houston, nuke plants, vietnam, somalia, bosnia, and now iraq.
No reason it couldn't be the biggest player in a nasa-funded mars gig.
The best investment the Brown brothers ever made was in Lyndon Johnson. Their invesment in W Bush isn't working out so bad either. It's not about oil. It's about looting taxpayers.
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