House Panel Reports Halliburton to Better Business Bureau

by Skip DeKades

September 10, 2028 — A congressional subcommittee has filed a complaint with the Better Business Bureau over the Federal Emergency Management Corporation’s failure to provide disaster response services after last week’s earthquake in the San Francisco Bay area.

In a statement, Jack Dangle (D-Mich.), chair of the House Energy and Commerce Committee’s Oversight Subcommittee, said FEMC, a subsidiary of national security provider Halliburton, has failed to live up to its contractual obligations to provide U.S. cities with disaster response services.

“The services we have purchased from FEMC have been consistently substandard,” Dangle said, noting that the company has also delivered poor service during hurricanes and floods in the Gulf region.  “Most of New Orleans and Houston has disappeared under water because FEMC failed to reinforce levees adequately.  Half of California has burnt to a crisp because of forest fires that it declined to help contain.  What the hell are we paying for?”

The Sept. 4 quake in San Francisco registered 7.0 on the Richter scale, bringing down the Moscone Convention Center, where the Republican National Convention was being held.  GOP candidate Bobby Jindal, who was injured during the collapse, had to accept his nomination from the emergency room at San Francisco General Hospital.

Local response teams handled the brunt of the rescue work immediately after the event.  The Lunar Corps of Engineers has since sent a team from the moon to help with the cleanup.

FEMC spokesman Elmer Gensee said the company could not afford to send a response team to San Francisco because it was already overwhelmed helping rescue victims of a massive mudslide in Ecuador.

Dangle countered that the United States is FEMC’s biggest customer, so that Americans should take priority over disaster victims in other countries.

FEMC, formerly the Federal Emergency Management Agency, was part of the package of military, intelligence and homeland security assets that the federal government sold to Halliburton in 2021.  Like its parent company, FEMC is suffering from escalating operating costs and declining revenues.  Halliburton has stated that it is on the verge of bankruptcy.

Sources tell FU that Treasury Secretary Conrad Troller is trying to convince President George Prescott Bush to meet Halliburton’s request for a bailout.  But Bush is resistant to that proposal.  The president remains resentful over the company’s refusal to help the U.S. fight Hillary Clinton’s attempted military coup in June. Halliburton executives said at the time that a rescue would be unprofitable and not in the best interest of shareholders.

During a campaign stop in Dallas today, Jindal — trying to distance himself from the current Bush administration — said the government needs to take back control of emergency management. 

“The privatization of our national security operations has been a complete failure,” Jindal said. “Private companies have to report to shareholders, so they won’t do anything that isn’t profitable. My administration will commit to deficit-spending to reclaim complete control over our military and homeland security operations.”

Democratic presidential candidate Angelina Jolie has made no specific pledge about bailing out Halliburton.  According to campaign manager Holly Wood, Jolie plans to visit San Francisco this week to adopt children who were orphaned in the earthquake.

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