Senators hear 'shocking examples' of FEMA waste

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Senators hear 'shocking examples' of FEMA waste
http://news.yahoo.com/s/usatoday/senatorshearshockingexamplesoffemawaste;_ylt=AgBUUTkMbNllS1cPieZ5kP.s0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTA3ODdxdHBhBHNlYwM5NjQ-


By Mimi Hall, USA TODAY Tue Feb 14, 7:23 AM ET

FEMA has let nearly 11,000 unused manufactured homes deteriorate on old runways and open fields in Arkansas, and the agency spent $416,000 per person to house a few hundred Hurricane Katrina evacuees for a short time in Alabama last fall, government investigators told the Senate on Monday.


The allegations that the
Federal Emergency Management Agency has wasted hundreds of millions of dollars on a host of bungled efforts to help evacuees were in a pair of reports to senators investigating the government's response to the disaster. (Related blog: Several hurricane reports coming down hard)

Sen. Susan Collins (news, bio, voting record), R-Maine, chairwoman of the Senate
Homeland Security committee, called the reports a "fresh indictment" of FEMA. She said investigators uncovered "shocking examples of absent safeguards and wasted tax dollars."

Among them: FEMA spent $878.8 million on nearly 25,000 manufactured homes that the agency is paying to store around the country largely because its own regulations prohibit placing the homes in flood plains, such as New Orleans.

[MadMaddie]

1. When are they going to be held responsible...

All of the reports in the world don't necessarily mean criminal charges. We have had the Downing memo...nothing....Medicaid true cost nothing...

When are we going to get some criminal charges filed?

[Demeter]

2. But Did They Take Their Fingers Out Of Their Ears?

Get back to me when they actually listen, and condemn somebody for violating the spirit or the letter of the law, or public mores.

[951-Riverside]

3. This is what happens when you hire all white preppy jocks n/t