News Flash: Federal Government is Horribly Wasteful!
Well stick a corncob up an uncomfortable orifice and call me Shorty.
Nearly eight months after Hurricane Katrina triggered the nation’s largest housing crisis since the Second World War, a hastily improvised $10 billion effort by the federal government has produced vast sums of waste and misspent funds, an array of government audits and outside analysts have concluded.
As the Federal Emergency Management Agency wraps up the initial phase of its temporary housing program — ending reliance on cruise ships and hotels for people sent fleeing by the Aug. 29 storm — the toll of false starts and missed opportunities appears likely to top $1 billion and perhaps much more, according to a series of after-action studies and Department of Homeland Security reports, including one due for release today.
Rampant waste, you say? Misspent funds, you say? A billion dollars, you say? With a “B”?
In a Federal government program there is waste and misspent funds?
And the Washington Post reports this like it’s news or something?
Can my eyebrows arch any higher with sarcasm and still remain technically attached to my head?
Hell, they could have listened to me months ago and figured that one out, but they were way too busy screaming about how we had to get the Feds right in there to do something. Well, the Feds did something all right. They did what they do best, waste money and make a ginormous bureaucray that’s swallowing the city and the surrounding cities (note what’s happening in Baton Rouge). I hasten to note that the WaPo was among those screaming the loudest and taking their partisan whacks at the President for all his perceived failings.
You know what you don’t see in the article? Anyone taking charge. Remember Ray Nagin? He’s in the article doing what he does best, blaming other people for the city’s problems. Remember Kathleen Blanco? She’s nowhere to be found, though she’s the Governor. They are your “on the ground” elected leaders there in New Orleans and you can’t find a one of them doing anything that resembles stepping up, taking charge, and cutting the impenetrable levees of red tape to get timely and temporary assistance to the folks who need it.
But, hey, at least we did something, even if that something has basically equated to throwing tankers full of thousand dollar bills into the Gulf of Mexico. So, yay us.
And Yay WaPo folks for playuing both sides of the fence without the faintest hint of shame.
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