Just when you thought the controversy of the intimate relationship between the Defense Department, the US Government and Kellog Brown Root couldn’t get any worse, it does.
You remember Halliburton and its offspring KBR? They’re the ones who got billions of dollars worth of no bid contracts from the Bush Administration to perform a variety of tasks for the US government in Iraq and other hot spots around the world.
But let's be fair, they've been getting cherry deals from Uncle Sugar since LBJ was president. Under Bush, they got more and got sloppy.
Last year alone, KBR did $5 billion in government business, $16 billion between 2004 and 2006. They are the largest government contractor.
Their list of misdeeds is long and the impropriety of being awarded no bid contracts is still up for investigation.
But none of their misdeeds is more heinous that their wiring of military base showers.
To date inspector Jim Childs, a master electrician who is inspecting the work for the US Army say the wiring is the worst electrical work they’ve ever seen.
The results of the faulty wiring?
– 18 soldiers dead from electrocution.
- 8,527 of the 30,000 buildings examined so far were so bad they were ordered repaired immediately before being used again.
- almost 15,000 of the buildings failed the electrical inspection
Now the kicker.
The US Government has hired….
Wait for it…….
KBR to clean up its own electrical mess.
Why does our government continue to give taxpayer dollars to this company? Why are they not held accountable for their mistakes?
Most importantly, why is our government allowing a contractor to provide shoddy and unsafe facitilites to our soldiers and paying them for it?
Remember KBR is the lovely company that provided soldiers in Iraq with rotten, spoiled and contaminated food.
KBR charged the US up to $45 a can for soda pop.
KBR billed the US Government (taxpayers) over $100 million for meals it never delivered to troops.
The funny thing, if it were not so asinine, is that the US continues to feed the coffers of KBR with nary a thought to how badly they have screwed soldiers and taxpayers alike.
When asked about the electrical wiring situation in showers and buildings it built and about the over 200 electrocutions and 18 deaths from this shoddy workmanship, KBR said the deaths weren’t their fault.
They built the buildings, they did the wiring. How can these deaths not be their fault?
In the US, any electrician who caused the death of a single person because of shoddy workmanship or general incompetence would be up on charges (no pun intended).
Not KBR. They get more government contracts.
The larger blame goes to the Defense Department, Congress and the other government agencies who continue to do business with this obscene company.
Voters need to be asking their Congressmen and Senators why we continue to let KBR have taxpayer money.
I’m waiting for a good answer from Oklahoma’s Congressional delegation.
I’m prepared for a long wait.
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