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Blackwater scam

Monday, November 5 at 1:55 PM

Eileen Hyatt of Denver writes:

Blackwater makes multimillions off the war and still is determined to avoid paying FICA taxes. What a dishonorable scam. The outrage is that if Blackwater considers its workers as independent contractors, then that means the company sends mercenaries into war with no instruction or training. There’s a set-up for disaster. The top two requirements in order to qualify as an independent contractor are: 1.) The worker is not required to comply with instructions about when, where and how the work is done. 2.) The worker is not provided training that would enable him/her to perform a job in a particular method or manner.
In contrast to the troops who are trying to do the honorable thing, there is no end to the fraud, profiteering, cover-up, and immorality of this war and this administration’s hand in it all. It is impossible to win a war that we know in our hearts is shameful on so many fronts. Is there nothing we are going to hold anyone accountable for? Will we end up in history being another nation of people who allowed ourselves to be so deluded that we followed the leaders to our own downfall?

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READER COMMENTS

LOON!

Posted by on November 5, 2007 07:53 PM

Things are so great in Iraq, because we have Blackwqater there.

Praise W.!

Posted by rick on November 6, 2007 06:33 PM

Eileen, you are 100 % correct. Only Bush & Cheney would come up with having a private militia in the employee of the US government.

Pretty soon they will be claiming Veterans status and wanting benefits from the taxpayers

Posted by Ddoug on November 7, 2007 05:05 PM