Posted on 02/20/2006 10:14:34 PM PST by John Semmens
The $US2000 debit cards issued after Hurricane Katrina to victims so they could buy emergency supplies were used in some cases to pay for gambling, pornographic movies, and tattoos, according to two government reports that detail grotesque fraud and mismanagement in which hundreds of millions of dollars were squandered. The Federal Emergency Management Agency's oversight of cash payments was so flawed, the agency made "millions of dollars of payments" to applicants with bogus addresses, names, or Social Security numbers.
New Orleans mayor Ray Nagin challenged the assumption that these expenditures were fraudulent. “The purpose of the aid was to try to restore normality to New Orleans,” said Nagin. “The expenditures the media are complaining about are normal for New Orleans. The City has been making payments to bogus employees for as long as I can remember. As for gambling, pornography and prostitution—I ask you, what would New Orleans be without them?”
Reminded that the reports had not documented any expenditures on prostitutes, Nagin asserted it must have been an oversight.
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Ray Nagin is insane.
And FEMA still got criticized over it. Just goes to show you that you cannot please lowlifes who are still going to whine and hate you regardless. It's time to dismantle this stupid agency and let states take care of their own natural disasters.
why am I not surprised?
He is. But this is satire. I think.
It is, but I just like saying it.
Ha! Can't fault you there!
Uh, it may be satire officially, but I think it pretty much hits the nail right on the head. I have no doubt at all that ray willie wonka thinks along these lines completely.
;-D
Not much satire. At least not the first paragraph, which explains the *semi* part.
As the once rich but now destitute old man said, "I gambled with some of it, spent some on broads and spent some on booze. The rest of it I just squandered."
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