King George's Money Men Get Katrina Contracts

Why am I not surprised at this news from Reuters Companies with ties to the Bush White House and the former head of FEMA are clinching some of the administration's first disaster relief and reconstruction contracts in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. At least two major corporate clients of lobbyist Joe Allbaugh, President George W. Bush's former campaign manager and a former head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, have already been tapped to start recovery work along the battered Gulf Coast. This is all those fascist bastards think about - how to get richer - while the poor can damn well get along the best way they know how. Shaw Group Inc: Shaw Awarded Contract From US Army Corps of Engineers After leaving FEMA in March 2003, Allbaugh, (this would be Joe Allbaugh former head of FEMA) who managed the 2000 Bush-Cheney campaign, founded Allbaugh Co., a lobbying-consulting firm with many clients in the disaster-relief business. Among those clients is The Shaw Group, a provider of engineering, design, construction, and maintenance services to government and the private sector.SOURCE-The Washington Post. Kellogg Brown and Root: is the engineering and construction arm of the Halliburton Company, Awarded a Pentagon contract for advice on rebuilding Iraq's oil fields after the war. Formerly headed by Dick Cheney. Bechtel National Inc.: Selected by FEMA to provide short-term housing for people displaced by the hurricane. Bush named Bechtel's CEO to his Export Council and put the former CEO of Bechtel Energy in charge of the Overseas Private Investment Corporation. I also want to point out that every search I did concerning the Shaw Group, somehow came up with a connection to Enron, Haliburton, and Cheney. Even George Bush Sr.'s name comes into the mix. Now whether a connection can be made I don't know but it is most certainly strange how the Bush/Cheney/Haliburton/Enron names always seem to show up when you do a google search.