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3. Same R olling of the USA Taxpayer as Keystone Pipeline and Iraq
Sat Jan 26, 2013, 08:21 PM
Jan 2013

American taxpayers pay the costs ( in war trillions, deaths and staggering health costs, and disgrace on the international stage); Halliburton to Koch Bros skim off the conduiting profits, and China gets the bounty. Forever.

In Iraq China ultimately got the oil contracts, in Afghanistan they'll get the cyber mineral contracts. With Keystone the US pays for the pollution (starting with the leaky pipes Transcanada has already purchased from China), we pick up the tab forever of the endless environmental and health consequences, while this "filthy crap" poisons our country and is shipped off (in Texas tax free zones and Koch Bros refineries) to China.

It's such a simple and obscene business model. When are American taxpayers going to connect the dots.

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