Bush too Stingey on New Orleans?
June 28, 2006
I have ranted about the blank check written on behalf of New Orleans. I mean we all know how the story ends. The politicians and do gooders all feel better about themselves for helping out the victims. Then when everyone forgets about it, the real cost and the real benefits are announced:
Among the many superlatives associated with Hurricane Katrina can now be added this one: it produced one of the most extraordinary displays of scams, schemes and stupefying bureaucratic bungles in modern history, costing taxpayers up to $2 billion.
FEMA spends $250,000 a month to store about 10,000 empty mobile homes at an airfield in Hope, Ark. (from the NY Times site)
Seems to me that Bush spent too much on New Orleans as opposed to not doing enough.
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