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February 14, 2006it's only moneyPut the federal government in charge of ANYTHING and this is what you get. The two audits found that up to 900,000 of the 2.5 million applicants who received aid under FEMA’s emergency cash assistance program — which included the $2,000 debit cards given to evacuees — were based on duplicate or invalid Social Security numbers, or false addresses and names. I don't do math, but I think the gozintas indicate that more than one-third of the people that FEMA paid handsomely for "hurricane relief" simply stole the fucking money. I'm not surprised, because in the aftermath of Katrina, the government's objective was to throw as much money as possible at the problem. The money-throwers didn't really care where the money went. They just didn't want to be called stingy, heartless or racist. It sure makes ME feel warm and fuzzy knowing that my tax dollars were spent so *Afford a $450 tattoo. (SO? It said "I Survived Katrina.") Of course, these expenditures were mere petty cash. I'm amazed that the government even noticed it. Big-ticket items included "114,341 trailers for $1.7 billion," which the government may or may not have received and which may or may not have been occupied. "Discrepancies" in FEMA's bookkeeping make it "difficult to ascertain the exact units available or whether government-owned property was otherwise accounted for." That's nice to know. It makes the "24,967 manufactured homes obtained for $857.8 million and 1,295 modular homes at $40 million — resulting in 10,777 such homes sitting empty in Hope, Ark., in sinking mud without proper storage" a lot easier to understand. Comments
We were hit hard by Ivan and FEMA also gave out the debit cards here. Myself and my my best friend never received a dime of help from FEMA. Never a single dime and we were without food, water, power, ice etc for almost 3 weeks. If not for all of our neighborhood joining forces to feed the masses with what we had defrosting in our freezers, I don't know how we would have made it. shit...sorry for the highjack there Rob! Posted by: Dawn on February 14, 2006 11:28 PM
austinyellowbellyasshole: Eat Shit! Posted by: TomCat on February 15, 2006 06:26 AMFor anyone who remembers how the black racists were screaming "racist genocide and ethnic cleansing", did you ever follow the actual death stats as they came in after the hurricane hit New Orleans? Although the press didn't report it, the preliminary stats in December of 2005 reflected that fewer than half of victims were black, and whites died at the highest rate of all races. According to the latest Louisiana demographics of 745 identified victims, 374 were black, 310 were white and 61 were others. If you take into consideration that of the two hardest hit parish's, New Orleans had 484,674 people (67% of whom were blacks) and St.Bernard parish had 65,554 people (88% of whom were white) and you look at the victim stats above, who got hit disproportionately? Dawn, while you were suffering, I saw carloads of card recipients in the Houston area buying pricey items that I would not have considered, and I'm not on a tight budget. We absorbed so many of the criminals, our communities are going to be dealing with it for a long time to come. What a mess. Posted by: Tessa on February 15, 2006 09:00 AMDawn: I carelessly failed to notice that you said Ivan, not Katrina. Same point applies though. Posted by: Tessa on February 15, 2006 09:06 AMThe same congress bitching about FEMA and the trailers is the same congress that passed the laws that prevent the homes from being placed in a flood zone even during a disaster and what the congress didn't forbid the local "i'm better than you " crowd made it impossible to place a mobile home anywhere and it's not just in La. People should realize by now that congress in now in the CYA mode because they are the root cause of all the problems. However, no one on earth could have managed the relief effort any better than what they managed to do, unless you want to hire 50,000 more workers and station them on military bases around the country and forbid them from leaving except during a disaster (permanent standby). Congress just likes to Monday morning quarterback and make you think they're smart when they are really brain dead.. Posted by: scrapiron on February 16, 2006 02:19 AMPost a comment
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