The FEMA Ice Follies — “Millions of Dollars are Being Wasted”

[kerrygoddess]

The FEMA Ice Follies — “Millions of Dollars are Being Wasted”
September 16th, 2005

FEMA… the government agency synonymous with the F word. Nothing much seems to have changed since Brownie was replaced and the duct tape man cometh and it appears that FEMA can’t seem to coordinate the ice man cometh, either…

Lisa Myers & the NBC Investigative Unit, have done what journalists do when they are doing their jobs and have investigated why it’s such a problem for FEMA to bring ice to the ravaged Gulf Coast.

Friday, NBC News located hundreds of trucks full of ice sitting around the country: in Maryland, Missouri, Georgia, Tennessee, Mississippi and Louisiana. Some had been on trips to nowhere for the past two weeks.

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[Nothing Without Hope]

1. Horrifying but not surprising. Thanks for this. Goes in my

Katrina bookmark file called "delays, incompetence{?}, blocks of aid after storm" along with dozens and dozens of others.

[aquart]

2. Why? Why don't they just order them

Into the areas without potable water, without electricity. Seems so simple and logical.

[pushycat]

3. Unbelievable waste of our treasury

This should be investigated - who gave the orders to those trucks? Let's find out and print their names and positions on FOX, CNN, NBC, BBC, everywhere

Personal responsibility should extend to the individuals directing these vehicles - they should refund our tax dollars out of their own pockets!! What an ongoing crime without end....