This story is just sad.
I scanned the diaries, and I'm sure this was diaried at some point in the past, but I want to make it something to talk about again.
FEMA has failed on so many levels.
Here you will find how bad Bush's version of FEMA has responded.
A quote:
"The big surprise here," says Matt Fellowes, a Katrina reconstruction expert with Brookings, "is how little money has actually gone out the door. The demand on the ground is just absolutely immense today; unfortunately, that demand has not been met yet."
More after the flip:
No money getting to these folks.
St. Tammany Parish in Louisiana has received only 3,000 of the 20,000 trailers requested. One man NBC News talked to finally got one of them today. But two others aren't so lucky. They're still living in a tent.
Others are living in cars.
Americans living out of cars.
Meanwhile, 7,000 trailers sit empty at the Hope, Ark., airport. FEMA says one reason is that most local officials have not approved trailer sites.
Good job George. You are doing a heck of a job.
Barack Obama is making suggestions on how to distribute money.
Some, like Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., now propose a chief financial officer to monitor spending and say no to bad deals or, as Obama says, "Somebody who is watching how this money is spent before it goes out the door, as opposed to simply doing an audit afterwards when it's too late."
The fact that Katrina has faded from Americans minds makes me ill.
Thank goodness Congress did this.
And today, a frustrated Congress took $24 billion away from FEMA and sent it directly to gulf states and other agencies, hoping to speed the recovery.."