The Daily Background

Apparently FEMA thinks that Katrina refugees are better off living in tents rather than trailers that they already bought. Trailers that may have cost up to 800 Million dollars. If they already used our tax money on that, damnit why the hell aren’t they using it? Instead of making refugess live in goddamn tents? Associated Press:

Senate minority leader Harry Reid said Saturday he was “ashamed for our country” after visiting the thousands of FEMA-owned mobile homes lined up at Hope Airport that have yet to be used as shelters for hurricane victims on the Gulf Coast.

“I can’t imagine that we could have a sea of 11,000 mobile homes sitting there, rotting, while people around the country can’t find a place to live,” the Nevada Democrat said.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency has said that it was unable to put the trailers to use because federal regulations prohibit placing them in flood plains, and many of those needing shelter after the hurricanes are in areas classified as flood-prone.

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Reid said he was particularly appalled because he knows that, in Pass Christian, Miss., for example, more than 100 hurricane victims are living in a flood plain in tents.

“I ask you, are they better off?” he said.

Shocking. We already paid for the damned trailers that cost us hundreds of millions of dollars, and yet we can’t use them, because the only place that FEMA can think of to put them is on a flood plain? And that’s against regulations? Meanwhile, people are living on the flood plain anyways— in their own damn tents?! You can read the full article here.

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