Remember all those promises about rebuilding the Gulf Coast?
I'm calling bull. More than a year and a half has passed, and the money's still not there. Not in Mississippi, not in Louisiana, and not in New Orleans.
And just suppose you've managed to survive those 20 months in a FEMA trailer without going totally batshit crazy. Now you get to hear that FEMA wants to start charging you rent.
The outrage du jour is that the $6.9 billion fund set aside for direct aid to Louisiana homeowners has come up short by half. Nobody seems to know why, but it's looking like FEMA screwed up the math on the number of houses damaged... And to add insult to incompetence, only 16,000 of 130,000 applicants have received any rebuilding money at all.
For those of you scoring at home... oh hey, you have a home? What's that like?
And speaking of Losing It, Governor Blanco finally let go in The Washington Post. It's about friggin' time somebody did.