Legal Way to Steal Taxpayers Money

Blackwater, KBR, Halliburton, Titan, Parsons. Most people have only heard of Halliburton, if any. These are all government sponsored private contracting companies, and it's a huge industry. Halliburton reels in about $18.5 billion a year in "reconstruction and troop support". Parsons; about $5.3 billion in "engineering and construction". About 40 cents our of every dollar Congress controls goes to contractors. 40 CENTS!! With that in mind, these contractors aren't even doing much good in Iraq. These companies are scamming the government and pocketing taxpayers' money. They go into Iraq to help soldiers that don't need help, often times just wasting a soldier's time so that they can get paid for what that soldier already was doing just fine. The average cost for a bag of laundry to be done is $100. They even run empty trucks to make money for driving the routes, and often times these drivers are put in direct danger. They even put soldiers in danger by cutting corners to make more money. Instead of running a 24/7 cafeteria for our troops, these contractors only run mealtimes at certain points of the day. This allows them to make the same amount of money but only have to work a much smaller amount of time. Not only an inconvienience for the troops, but a danger. Once insurgents find out what time the troops eat, they attack during mealtime while they are vulnerable. This is the legal scamming of taxpayers' money and a disgrace to the American people every second these contractors are allowed to treat our troops and us like cash cows.