You'll no doubt be surprised to learn that just two years after
Hurricane Katrina, George W. Bush's FEMA still can't find its enormous
bureaucratic ***** with both hands.
Long after the hurricane destroyed New Orleans along with large
swathes of the Gulf Coast, FEMA leaped into action and delivered 200
million pounds of much-needed ice to the disaster area.
Unfortunately that was way more ice than was needed.
So what did FEMA do with the 85 million pounds of ice they had left
over, which their own regulations said needed to be disposed of after
three months?
Did they try to cut some of their losses by, for example, selling it
on the open market?
Did they simply dispose of it once it had passed its three-month "use
by" date?
Don't be silly.
FEMA shipped the ice to various storage facilities all over the U.S.,
and are only now going to throw it away after keeping it frozen for
two years at a cost to the taxpayer of $12.5 million dollars.
http://abcnews.go.com/print?id=3379974
Duh.
By EarlG
Democratic Underground
http://www.democraticunderground.com/
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