FEMA Gives Away $85 Million of Supplies for Katrina Victims

[babsbunny]

http://www.truthout.org/article/fema-gives-away-85-million-katrina-supplies

New Orleans, Louisiana - FEMA gave away about $85 million in household goods meant for Hurricane Katrina victims, a CNN investigation has found.

The material - from basic kitchen goods to sleeping necessities - sat in warehouses for two years before the Federal Emergency Management Agency's giveaway to federal and state agencies this year.

James McIntyre, FEMA's acting press secretary, told CNN that FEMA was spending more than $1 million a year to store the material and that another agency wanted the warehouses torn down, so "we needed to vacate them."

"Upon review of our assets and our need to continue to store them, we determined that they were excess to FEMA's needs; therefore, they are being excessed from FEMA's inventory," McIntyre wrote in an e-mail.

He declined a request for an on-camera interview, telling CNN the giveaway was "not news."

[DainBramaged]

1. FEMA don't like the Black folks

That article smacks of cronyism and ineptitude. And the asswipe from Louisiana stating no one needed it because no one told him they need it doesn't get out too often to see where the folks are living.


And it ain't in comfy homes.


Unless they are white and Republican.

[dipsydoodle]

2. Be interesting to check out specific items

by name under completed items on Ebay to see if there is a repeat seller.

[Lint Head]

3. One of the articles of impeachment of crimes.

This is a shame. :dem:

[Swamp Rat]

4. k&r