Excess shipping charges?
 

http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/business/3085603

Iraq needed fuel. Halliburton Co. was ordered to get it there — quick. So the Houston-based contractor charged the Pentagon $27.5 million to ship $82,100 worth of cooking and heating fuel.

Didn't any of the 3 million refineries in Saudi Arabia have cooking or heating fuel? Is Sterno 'made-in-the-USA'?

E

It's cheap and sensational but I gotta do it:

So when one of your parents need surgery, and the insurance company won't cover it (bless their hearts), and you wonder why there isn't a federal program..........

Never fear, we're "spreading freedom". It's all worth it, right? In order to make an omlette one has to break a few eggs, right?

This administration seriously makes me ashamed to be an American - for the first time in my life.

That's probably on top of the 100 million they said Halliburton overcharged the govt. (aka us) for fuel transportation.

....and I get pissed when someone on ebay charges $20 more than true shipping cost (add'l profit) because it's not computed as part of the final bid amount.

Potential ebay shippees and taxpayers, beware.

Sherwood

I'm sure fint will chime in soon to tell us all how this gouging is necessary and good. :rolleyes: