"It also found that the government functions better when government employees, not private contractors, perform its tasks."

That's because Haliburton hires it's workers from third world countries to keep the wages at third world levels aprox $5.00/day. Illiteracy is very high with these workers and mistakes are common place. Then Haliburton charges back to the US at US rates of $60-80/day.

“We pay our locals [in Iraq] $5 to $16 dollars a day and you can see where [KBR] put it down [on the military requisition] as $60 a day,” a KBR employee who wished to remain anonymous because of concern about company retaliation, remarked to HalliburtonWatch. Billing the military up to $80 for $5 to $16 labor seems excessive.