FEMA Wants Over $300M in Katrina Aid Back

1010wins ^ | By FRANK BASS and MICHELLE ROBERTS

[dforest]

Nothing surprises me anymore. You know, each day it is getting harder to listen to those we have elected. I don't think any of them have any idea what to do about anything. They have no sense of responsibility and are morally clueless. It appears they just run constant back to back election cycles which keeps any of them from doing the job they are supposed to do. As for the trailers. I guess it is looked at as, why worry? Its just the taxpayers money. The incompetence is so blatant.

[buffyt]

I live in Southern California but still own my house in Lake Jackson Texas right on the Gulf Coast. My 25 year old son lives in our house while we are gone (Husband is on assignment here as a Dow Chemical Engineer) We didn't lose a tree or a fence or a window or a shingle in the 2005 hurricanes. But I hear EVERY DAY in California that the entire Gulf Coast was destroyed by the hurricanes. I tell people that Galveston and Houston were spared they are fine. Lake Jackson was spared and it is fine. Then one gal asked me "Have you been back to your house to check on it?" I guess she thinks I just don't know that my house was destroyed. Yes I have been back to my house about four times a year and it is just fine. I guess the news media kept saying the Gulf Coast was declared a disaster area and Californians assume it means the entire coast. I keep trying to explain, NO, it is just in the areas where the storm hit. We were on the dry/clean side of both storms.

[Calpernia]

The propaganda is touted here too (East Coast).

They are groups STILL collecting for "Katrina Victims".

[NCC-1701]

IMO, the money should be left there. Keep track of how it's spent, by whom is it spent, and on what is it spent on. If it's seen to have been used on anything other than its intended purpose, NOLA shouldn't get one red cent more. This would hurt the truly deserving, and maybe the voters there will wake up and kick the Nagins and Blancos out of office and get more resposible people in there to do the job they're elected to do and not line their own greedy pockets. Let it serve to be an object lesson in post-disaster relief.

I am not insensitive to the plight of those in NOLA. I look at it as though the elected are stealing from me when the relief funds are used to feather their own beds. That's when changes have to be made.

[Old Professer]

"We were on the dry/clean side of both storms."

Then Houston must have been on the emptied vacuum/cleaner bag side...

[Calpernia]

Ping from your question on the Duncan Hunter thread.

Here is an update on Katrina/New Orleans.

[CFC__VRWC]

Dixon, 25, said she saw people bilk taxpayers while she fought for basic assistance to help feed and clothe her five children, ages 1 to 10.

Ah yes, the old, "I'm a good person - it's all of them that are the crooks!" bit. I'm sure she conveniently forgot to show the "journalist" the Gucci handbag she bought with her $2000 debit card.