[solitas]

"I heard if you said the right thing on the phone -- you had to evacuate, you didn't stay -- they were giving people $2,000,"

This. Is. Called. Fraud.

[ErnBatavia]

I lived in a very nice neighborhood during the Northridge Earthquake. FEMA started making "loans" (checks written at their desk down at the park)and made it quite clear they would probably be forgiven....amounts were somewhere around that 2000 zops.

It really pissed me off that two or three neighbors on our block took advantage of this largess (they were all well-insured, as were we).

[TCats]

"This Is Called Gov't invitation to crooks to commit Fraud.

I think this is a two party crime. The slimeballs who take advantage of an out-of-control money dump who do not warrant it AND an inept PC Gov't bureaucracy afraid of being criticized in the MSM for not being 'Compassionate'. MTCFWIW