Waxman Hearings: Blackwater outsources security work to poor Africans @ $30/day

[sabra]

http://www.iraqslogger.com/index.php/post/1242/Helvenstons_Mother_Dishes_Dirt_on_Blackwater

Helvenston's Mother Dishes Dirt on Blackwater
Outsourcing Security Work to Poor Africans

According to Stephen "Scott" Helvenston's mother, testifying to Henry Waxman's House Oversight Committee, Blackwater has been going to little African villages and offering men $30/day to work as a security contractor.

As a bonus, their families are told that if they are killed, they get $1 million dollars. That's big money in Africa. Unfortunately, she wasn't more specific.

Thirty dollars a day saves Blackwater big money in their expenses, considering that an American contractor might make $350-$650/day (or more if they're working "black" contracts).

But the $1 million dollar death benefit (if it was actually paid), would be paid by insurance. That's another example of the cost-savings brilliance of Erik Prince.

[maddezmom]

1. I'm going to be sick

:puke: But I'm not surprised, didn't they do the same during Katrina?

[Frustratedlady]

2. Who IS Blackwater and who is involved?

Are they just moving paper or do they actually have a storefront? The name, Blackwater, keeps cropping up, but it always seems to be with corruption of some kind or another. Am I wrong?

[WinkyDink]

3. $i million is "big money" where I live, too. But your point is well-taken, and ought to be

made more public.