Gloucester (MA) Daily Times: "Frozen FEMA Fiasco" (Unreal!)

[babylonsister]

http://www.gloucestertimes.com/
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Frozen FEMA fiasco: Truckers stuck with ice meant for Gulf Coast

Hundreds of thousands of pounds of ice meant for the Gulf Coast arrived yesterday not in storm-ravaged New Orleans or Mississippi but in Gloucester, where almost two dozen tractor-trailers spent the day parked on Rogers Street with their engines running.

Hundreds of truck drivers from Minnesota, Alabama, Georgia and even Massachusetts have been crisscrossing the country since the beginning of September, moving loads of ice from storage facility to storage facility and earning big bucks from the federal government to do little more than sit in their cabs and not unload their precious cargo.

As 18 truckers waited on Rogers Street just before noontime yesterday, many wondered aloud why the shipments were coming here and not being sent to those in need after Hurricane Katrina along the Gulf Coast.

"I still don't understand what we're doing here," Ron Johnson said as he stood outside the AmeriCold Logistics storage facility, waiting to drop off 84,000 pounds of ice yesterday. "We're going around in circles."

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[electropop]

1. It's part of the genocidal plan.

It's just one more active, deliberate blockage of desperately needed aid. FEMA's job was not to help, but to lay siege to New Orleans.

[JuniperLea]

2. Saving the ice for dead bodies?

Boy, if were a "terrist" I'd be laughing my ass off right now... as I gathered my minions and readied them for a balls-to-the-wall attack. "We" can't even manage ice shipments.

[PuraVidaDreamin]

3. So how much is this inept planning costing tax payers?

[The Backlash Cometh]

4. Reminds me of the interstate road constructions that have the

Bob Barricades up in the same area for years at a time. Someone is making money good money. It isn't about efficiency. It's about someone making good money.

[DURHAM D]

5. Perhaps they plan to go further north and dump it

on the melting poplar ice caps.

[pushycat]

6. Truckers shouldn't be used this way - they work hard to bring

everything to our communities across America. Whoever is giving out these demonic delivery instructions should be brought out into the light of day so we can see what the thing looks like.

Wasting valuable resources, valuable good will, etc still going on..where the hell is Congress and our justice system?

[struggle4progress]

7. FEMA -- Helping inflate the demand for diesel fuel. eom