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It is clear that KBR will try every trick in the book to profit off of a war that is ripping our country apart. After the way KBR treated Jaime Leigh Jones when she reported being sexually assaulted while on duty in Iraq as a contractor, it comes as no surprise that the private contractors are cheating over 21,000 of their employees out of unemployment benefits by claiming them as employees of phony offshore companies in the Cayman Islands.
But what is even more appalling is that KBR ducked out on over $500 million in taxes -- funds that would have provided for social security and medicaid beneficiaries. While average citizens like you and I have our tax money funneled to support this unjust war, the companies reaping the benefits are cheating us to avoid their profits benefiting anyone but themselves, and Bush and his cronies are letting them get away with it. The Pentagon has known about KBR's corrosive practices since 2004, and has turned a blind eye. Progressive Future is working to make sure the Bush administration cannot ignore the public outcry against its consistence practices of favoritism and deceit.
It's time to hold those contractors accountable to the community that they claim to be defending: the American public. It's time to end the era of having policies formed out of greed and corruption dirty our international reputation. It time to take this country in a new direction.
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