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July 23, 2007

Katrina, 22 Months Later

It's been 22 months since Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans and the surrounding areas. And only now has FEMA finally decided that it is a waste of money to keep storing the millions of pounds of ice it couldn't seem to deliver to the hurricane victims. All that ice that should have been given to hurricane victims instead was shipped to 22 different locations across the country where it has been stored ever since, costing millions of dollars in storage fees. Finally, after wasting millions of dollars, and now that New Orleans is finally no longer in dire need of ice, FEMA has melted the undelivered 220+ million pounds of ice, ending one small story in a much larger saga of mismanagement in the wake of the Bush Administration's consolidation of 22 government agencies, including FEMA, into the Department of Homeland Security. At least the citizens are paying for their crimes during the tragedy. Bernetta LaShay Willis was recently found guilty on 22 counts for filing false claims for disaster assistance, theft of funds intended for hurricane victims, threatening a witness, drug and weapons charges, and lying to federal authorities. We can't be having that, now, can we? Such demonstrations of inhumanity are solely the right of those in power.

Posted by Becky at July 23, 2007 10:28 AM