FEMA continues to waste YOUR tax dollars
The problem here is not that the government is not doing enough, it just doesn’t know how to handle your money. If the people of N.O. and the surrounding area see no problem in re-electing a crook, we can expect more of the same for years to come.
Another idea for a documentary for Spike Lee.
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(usatoday.com) The government continues to waste tens of millions of dollars in its Hurricane Katrina relief efforts, including giving rent checks to evacuees already living in free housing and student aid to ineligible foreigners, U.S. investigators said Wednesday.
The Government Accountability Office also found that the Federal Emergency Management Agency has been able to recoup only $7 million of the more than $1 billion in improper payments identified by investigators months ago.
“The taxpayers are the new victims here,” the GAO’s Greg Kutz told the Senate homeland security committee during the fourth and final hearing into government waste, fraud and abuse related to Katrina. (more…)
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Is this the same government you want handling YOUR health care? Post forthcoming.
