Atlas
06-13-2008, 01:43 PM
Usually I don't really get mad, but after seeing this on the news and then reading more into it, I got heated! This is bullshit! Fema's got some 'splainin to do.
(CNN) -- Louisiana officials are demanding that hurricane supplies the Federal Emergency Management Agency gave away be returned to help victims of Hurricane Katrina.
Their request comes after a CNN story Wednesday revealed that FEMA had given away $85 million in supplies that lingered on storage shelves while hurricane victims suffered without the items they needed.
In a letter to Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff, Sen. Mary Landrieu demanded answers from FEMA.
"While I understand the stated need to save taxpayer money being spent storing these materials, I am concerned that there are still ongoing needs for these type of goods in my state," Landrieu wrote Chertoff, whose department includes FEMA.
She asked for Chertoff's assistance "in reviewing this situation and redistributing these goods."
The Louisiana Recovery Authority announced that it was asking the federal government to return goods "that were intended to help disaster victims in Louisiana but were marked as surplus and remain unused."
"Many of these items are believed to be household goods that could help residents moving out of FEMA trailers re-establish their homes," the agency said.
Full story: http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/06/12/fema.katrina.supplies/index.html
(CNN) -- Louisiana officials are demanding that hurricane supplies the Federal Emergency Management Agency gave away be returned to help victims of Hurricane Katrina.
Their request comes after a CNN story Wednesday revealed that FEMA had given away $85 million in supplies that lingered on storage shelves while hurricane victims suffered without the items they needed.
In a letter to Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff, Sen. Mary Landrieu demanded answers from FEMA.
"While I understand the stated need to save taxpayer money being spent storing these materials, I am concerned that there are still ongoing needs for these type of goods in my state," Landrieu wrote Chertoff, whose department includes FEMA.
She asked for Chertoff's assistance "in reviewing this situation and redistributing these goods."
The Louisiana Recovery Authority announced that it was asking the federal government to return goods "that were intended to help disaster victims in Louisiana but were marked as surplus and remain unused."
"Many of these items are believed to be household goods that could help residents moving out of FEMA trailers re-establish their homes," the agency said.
Full story: http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/06/12/fema.katrina.supplies/index.html