And if they're not lying, they're screwing up
Washington Post:Nearly eight months after Hurricane Katrina triggered the nation's largest housing crisis since the Second World War, a hastily improvised $10 billion effort by the federal government has produced vast sums of waste and misspent funds, an array of government audits and outside analysts have concluded.
The government's costliest initiative -- $6.4 billion allocated to place storm survivors in temporary trailers and mobile homes -- has ground to a halt around New Orleans this week, in part because of widespread racial and class tensions. Residents of surrounding localities have refused to accept the makeshift communities.
Only 71 percent of the 141,000 trailers that FEMA estimates are needed are being occupied.
On the subject of FEMA, Jonesboro Sun ediitorializes today on the slow federal response to recent tornadoes.
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Can I buy one of the trailers in Hope? I'd like to put one on the lake.
Posted by: justwannaknow | April 14, 2006 07:31 AM
As the Republican Katrina Money Mill continues to roll on, a New Orleans resident made an excellent point today on NPR. Just told this morning that his boyhood home would be demolished if he didn't raise it up and extra 3 feet (at an average inflated cost of $13,300 per foot), he wondered just how much good that would do him when his house got 14 feet of water after Katrina hit.
His wife wondered why the government wanted every home owner to bear such a cost, when the smart thing would be to put all that money into higher, stronger levies?
And let me point out again the government is saying the cost of putting a survivor in a FEMA trailer is more than $60,000 per tiny trailer. If that price is right.....everyone living in the trailer park near me must be a millionaire! And we thought they were white trash all these years......I'll be.
Our government has gone mad! We have to do something now or die.
Throw them all out this November!!!
Posted by: Deathbyinches | April 14, 2006 01:14 PM