Toxic Relief?

"On the eve of yesterday's hearing by the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, FEMA reversed course on the issue and said it has asked federal health officials to help conduct a new assessment of conditions in trailers under prolonged use. But revelation of the agency's earlier posture -- in documents withheld by FEMA until they were subpoenaed by Congress -- attracted harsh bipartisan criticism.

Committee Chairman Henry A. Waxman (D-Calif.) decried what he called FEMA's indifference to storm victims and said the situation was "sickening." He said the documents "expose an official policy of premeditated ignorance" and added that "senior officials in Washington didn't want to know what they already knew, because they didn't want the legal and moral responsibility to do what they knew had to be done."

It's bad enough these folks were ignored during the Katrina fiasco, then FEMA put them in toxic trailers. Those who knew what happened and failed to act should be sentenced to life in the still unrebuilt 9th ward. The only shelter is those lovely trailers

FEMA Fraud, Surprised?

Many of my associates have been spending their summer vacations helping the Katrina victims restore their homes. One of the biggest issues has been the removal of the trash. What good does it do if one or two homes are rebuilt and they are surrounded by piles of trash. Isn't this a fait de compli?

What if the money that was misdirected, had been spent on dumpsters? Wouldn't this be the beginning of restoring sanity to these people's lives?

The unsung heroes are those who continue to migrate south each summer to help these victims. It is a shame that our government does not have that same commitment to this region.

Like or not, if Ft. Lauderdale would have been struck this hard, all levels of government would have responded differently, then and now.

Consensual Sex: War Profitteers

Haliburton has been raping the government coffers with permission for years. Their tour in Iraq has been very profitable giving a new name to war profiteering. Since that wasn't enough they turned their sights on Katrina.

Instead of FEMA going after the big boys, they are targeting college kids. Why do I think any abuse that may have occurred is minor compared to the contracts blindly handed over to Cheney's pals?

Since the government consented to this nonsense I guess it is not rape.

I hate these people.