Originally Posted by Agent_Grey

Halliburton is indisputably a private corporation. They are for-profit. They seek to make money. The fact they are awarded government contracts by conservatives is just another point against the logically bankrupt notion that conservatives seek to benefit the private sector for the good of all of us.

They seek to benefit the private sector for the sake of the private sector.

And before you go on some-tirade about how I'm some kind of anti-business communist, elt me clarify my personal perspective in one short paragraph:

There *are* things that business, even big business, is better for. I have no problem with anything from Cereal to I-pods being manufactured by for-profit companies, along with almost any consumer good. I just think that other things, such as nation building (Haliburton) Energy suppy (Enron) and Medicine (Merk) run counter to the very benefits privatization is supposed to bestow, hence the obvious problems that have emerged.