Didn’t everybody get Katrina-aid? Rich, poor, middle?

I don’t know. If I had lived in the kind of poverty some of those people lived in down there, I might have gone happily berserk, after having lost everything and spent it to take the kids to Disney World. Again, I don’t know. I don’t want to go through what they did to find out.

And before everybody jumps on me, I’m not condoning that type of spending. I’m just trying to make sense of it.

Sounds like the bushbots contemplating another war, like say in iran. But then, that’s just me.

As far as governement waste goes. After 40 years of welfare nonsense what other outcome would be expected. Handouts will always be squandered by the irresponsible. They tend along the same lines as the drunk who keeps going out and drinking everynite hoping perhaps for a different outcome.

Don’t forget the government disaster assistance for the million plus dollar homes in Malibu that slide down the hills every winter in CA.

Predictable: fires denude the hills, rains wash away the hillsides, homes fall down, FEMA pays to rebuild..on the SAME SPOT.

Yep….our taxes dollars “at work”.

RD-I might blow some of it but it would be on little things not tropical vacations or a lawyer or a high priced bottle of champagne.I’d probably use it for rent, clothes, groceries. I might blow a bit at wal-mart on makeup, perfume, toys for the kids but I’d make sure that the necessities were taken care of first.

Just blows my mind.

To bad the feds got nailed on this when it was the state and city that were so decrepit and mismanaged. The media so overproduced the coverage is was outrageous. The after action report by the OMB and even Pop Science magazine found there were no rapes, no murders and that FEMA was actually on the ground faster than they were at Hurricane Andrew. But once the levees were breached it was all over.

So, lets think on this – should we rebuild a city in the shape of a BOWL and put the city in the bottom. Until we as taxpayers stand up and say enough this will continue. Just as it will with the continued rebuilds of Florida every year and our insurance rates skyrocketing to pay for it. Well at least this year some insurance companies are saying no more coverage in the state of Florida. Lets see if the banks make those big loans on something that will essentially become a large mobile home.

This is your standard government program. Look out your windows at the 100 Billion dollar Farm Subsidy Program. These farms should have been allowed to go broke 40 years ago. As long as they are subsidized with such government loans they will continue. And without them about one-half of this state would join the Buffalo Commons all on their own.

It ain’t gonna happen.

(”Here, you issue these 1000 cardsand keep a couple for yourself.” HA!”Just Don’t tell nobody.” Wink-Wink.

Joe, isn’t that what your name refers to? ;)

Ridiculous Randy. Congress get to the bottom of it? Congress couldn’t wait to start throwing money at Katrina victims. See what happens when that is your “plan”.

Do you suppose that it was misuse of the cards to purchase some of this stuff? But will those who misused the cards be held accountable? I seriously doubt it. More valuable to use the issue as political fodder.

You hit that right on the mark.