The problem here isn't so much FEMA as it is New Orleans and the inbred corruption of people there. Of course there's going to be a little bit of fraud any time the purse strings come open in an emergency... But I would submit that there isn't anyplace in the country even close to New Orleans in its cultivation of people into what amounts to an almost subhuman existence.
I remember vividly watching New Orleans go over completely into Lord of the Flies, *instantly*. Somalia has a more civil culture than our own little third-world in Louisiana.
If it were up to me I'd cut off further federal money to New Orleans. It's a lost cause. Give it to the flies.
Oh please. It has nothing to do with inbred people in New Orleans, and it wasn't just New Orleans where fraud occurred. If the old money residents of New Orleans had their way, the city wouldn't have become what it did, especially on the eastside. The problem is, old money by default is old money, it doesn't have the ability to outvote the ghetto. New Orleans has the oppurtunity to now do exactly what the old money of the city wants for it, and what they want is for the better of the city, no question.
Much of the fraud was perpetrated by people not from the coast who used false addresses in order to recieve aid. There was a story in the paper here a few months ago about a woman who used an address here to recieve federal aid, an address that did not even exist. This person of course, had never spent much time around here. Neither had FEMA, because they automatically approved the request. The burden was on FEMA to make sure the money was distributed in an efficient manner.