December 22, 200421 yr Link "It's a very bad sign," said Michael O'Hanlon, a scholar at the Brookings Institution think tank in Washington who has closely followed the reconstruction process. "If this is how other private companies are thinking, it's a very bad potential warning." Coming as U.S. reconstruction officials have been touting signs of progress, Contrack's withdrawal underscores the challenges in the $18.4-billion effort to rebuild Iraq. The effort to revamp the country is considered vital to providing Iraqis with jobs and services and to weakening the insurgency. So far, however, it has been beset with delays, violence, allegations of graft and waste, and frustration among ordinary Iraqis and top U.S. military commanders at the lack of progress. More @ Link What this is telling me is the almost $20 Billion dollar rebuilding project is going to go even higher. Most of the money will be borrowed with the deficits we are running.
December 22, 200421 yr No, everything is fine. Stop worrying and drink this eggnog. You will conform. You will conform. Here listen to this new holiday carol, it's called "The Christmas Shoes." Doesn't it make you just want to cry? (Is it me, or am I too bored at work?)
December 22, 200421 yr You want my job? It's been waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay too busy for 2 days before Christmas Eve. Couple that with the fact I didn't sleep well last night and you get a stressed out Prawn ready to rip on the next co-worker that makes the mistake of asking me for something they should be able to do themselves. GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR! Edited December 22, 200421 yr by Queen Prawn
December 22, 200421 yr You want my job? It's been waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay too busy for 2 days before Christmas Eve. Couple that with the fact I didn't sleep well last night and you get a stressed out Prawn ready to rip on the next co-worker that makes the mistake of asking me for something they should be able to do themselves. GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR! No s***. I feel the same way.
December 22, 200421 yr Being on vacation rocks! For you, Nuke, I bet it does. It's got to be good to be stateside for a while...
December 22, 200421 yr Being on vacation rocks! Hey I am not paying you to be on vacation! Get back to defending my freedom!
December 22, 200421 yr Author Being on vacation rocks! Wait, isn't this like your 15th vacation this year? How many weeks do you have to work a year
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