[Wonder Warthog]

"I seem to remember OUR brilliant government buying thousands of trailers which were thought to be too demeaning for welfare recipients and their ilk (yes some taxpayers were involved) that just rusted out. Refurbish them and let the field workers have them."

You're slightly confused. The "Katrina trailers" were used and mothballed. They're still there, and available. The major stink about them was that they used "formaldehyde-based" materials in their construction, and some folks had allergic reactions, which, of course, the greens blew out of all proportion.

After this much time, they have long "out-gassed" any remaining formaldehyde (especially the ones stored in Louisiana). Got to be careful about mold with those.

[txhurl]

The interiors of the Target trailers are pretty nice:

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2011/11/26/us/JP-MANCAMPS-3/JP-MANCAMPS-3-articleInline.jpg

[xrmusn]

You’re slightly confused.
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You got it!!!!

I forgot what a great success the program was (Heavy Sarcasm).
They got about .07 on the dollar for the resale, but by government standards probably a ‘good deal’ as normally they let stuff just sit and rot or give away and the recipients let ‘the stuff’ sit and rot/rust away....
Didn’t realize some still being utilized (as of 2010).

BTW Has Japan ‘finished’ rebuilding from the typhoon/tsunami? You can pretty much ‘bet your bippy’ it won’t be any 7 or 8 years....