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Halliburton Moving HQ To Dubai
theodp writes "Much-maligned defense contractor Halliburton is moving its corporate headquarters from Houston to Dubai in the United Arab Emirates. Dubai's friendly tax laws will add to Halliburton's bottom line. Last year the company earned $2.3B in profits. Sen. Patrick Leahy called the company's move 'corporate greed at its worst.' Halliburton, once headed by VP Dick Cheney, has been awarded contracts valued at an estimated $25.7B for its work in Iraq."
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we should change america to be more like Dubai, before all the good corporations leave!
first step: hire an underclass of semi-legal labor to do all our low wage jobs... oh wait, we already got that part going
second step: base our entire economy on oil... we are getting there slowly...
third step: do away with all these liberal ideas, like labor unions, the right to riot (aka "assemble"), the right to incite violence (aka "the press", "speech"), and so forth and so on.
fourth step: reduce taxes to zero. if Jeb gets elected in 2012, we will be well on our way.
on our way to a good, conservative nation like Jefferson and Washington intended.
All I know is I saw Kenny alive, then a bunch of Haliburton guys walked into the room, now Kenny's dead.
Leave the gun, take the cannoli -- Clemenza, The Godfather
What is this, Slashdot or Daily Kos?
I realize that bashing the administration and anybody who's linked with them in any way is the "in thing" to do (thank you, Jon Stewart), but there are zillions of sites out there for posting and discussing this sort of thing. It's not tech, it's not fantasy, it's plain old generic business being posted for plain old political reasons. So why is it here?
I was interested to read this news (when it was news, a few days ago) but this is not nerd news, and slashdot must be the last place on earth to carry the story. Really poorly chosen, editors.
Those bastards! They killed Kenny!