FEMA never gave over $80mil in Goods to Katrina Victims

http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/06/11/fema.giveaway/index.html

I have to bite my lip to keep from going into a berserker rage over this incompetence.

It's a little late to be angry toward FEMA's response to Katrina. From the above quote you can tell they pretty much gave up on themselves.

How is this news?
That's no excuse for flamboyant fucktardery. Also, I don't care which news is in fashion or not.

No it's not.

I'll always be pissed off with the way that was handled. I get especially pissed off about it when i see rescue missions saving Iraqi's that would of worked for some of the people lost in Katrina.

FEMA's response towards Katrina was utter failure. If we stop being angry about it, they will never do anything to improve FEMA. I am glad it keeps getting brought up and smashed in their faces, maybe they can hold another press conference with a paid audience to tell themselves what a great job they are doing.

It's never too late to be angry at FEMA and this pathetic administration! If you're not still angry, you're not paying attention. (Sorry for the bumper sticker sentiment, but it's true.)

You are all correct, of course. And no, I'm not over being angry myself. I didn't enjoy watching people die on TV while the government pretended they never heard of it.

Instead of yelling and being all angry we should devote our energy on getting a new administration. Which will ensure that competent, qualified people can once again run agencies such as this.

Yes, we should. But we shouldn't be myopic when channeling our energy(ies) to a good cause.

It's hard to figure out where one group's bungling ends and the others' bungling begins. Interesting how they mention that "Louisiana, where most of the people displaced by the storm live, passed on taking any (of the FEMA supplies).......John Medica, director of the Louisiana Federal Property Assistance Agency in Baton Rouge, said he was unaware that Katrina victims still had a need for the household supplies." When I looked up that State agency mentioned it says,' "The primary function of the Louisiana Federal Property Assistance Program is to re-utilize the tax dollar by putting federal property that is no longer needed by the federal government into the hands of Louisiana entities."

What a shame. Houston, as a city was fairly fast reacting in welcoming Katrina victims and trying to process people into shelters. I think we grew by nearly 50,000 shortly after the disaster. Like a lot of us here, I volunteered in those first few days and weeks to help process people through after the Dome debacle. In some ways I was quite impressed with how certain supplies were made available so quickly, but dismayed with the quality of a lot of other items. One hates to hear about stuff like this. I put more than a few thousand in supplies and cash towards donations and direct aid by sponsoring a family and helping them get back on their feet. I feel really good about the direct aid because of being able to see what a difference it made to the family who stayed with me. But, I often wonder whatever happened to the donations to agencies made by me and many of my friends. How do you police incompetence of Federal and State agencies? I'm not certain a new administration is going to prevent that, since bureaucracy is bureaucracy.....but guess it couldn't hurt.

Gah. This makes me sooo angry. (sorry I don't have much to add, but the government-federal and state-incompetence before/during/after the levees breaking still leaves me seeing red) )

From what I understand, they're still only rebuilding the levees to withstand a Category 3 hurricane. Originally they thought Katrina was a Category 3 but now some have downgraded it to a Category 2.

So be prepared for this tale of woe revisit us down the road.