FEMA is looking more and more like a slush fund/money laundering operation

[seafan]

I swear, it does.

What has happened to all the money allocated for FEMA?

1. They certainly weren't spending it on training their people in basic response to disaster since 2001.

2. They are spending it on such things as Bush photo ops propped up by firefighters.

3. They are spending it on firefighters to distribute *flyers* touting FEMA after Katrina.

4. They are privatizing the traditional FEMA responsibilities over to cronies, some are now under arrest for theft in the performance of their *duties* in NO. http://www.nola.com/newslogs/breakingtp/index.ssf?/mtlogs/nola_Times-Picayune/archives/2005_09.html#078200

5. Now today, $51.8 Billion has been appropriated by Congress for Katrina victims, BUT the money will be *administered by FEMA*.

6. And in 2004 in Florida, FEMA funneled $21 Million to Miami-Dade County after Hurricane Frances, when this storm did not affect the area; it hit 100 miles to the north.

State records show Bush re-election concerns played part in FEMA aid
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/sfl-fema23mar23,0,5144922.story?coll=sfla-news-utility

Cashing in on Disaster
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/sfl-femacoverage,0,6697347.storygallery?coll=sfla-news-utility

7. What do we want to wager that much of this FEMA money will be funneled to Halliburton, now that Halliburton miraculously somehow snapped up juicy rebuilding contracts for the Gulf coast? Kind of reminds me about the suitcases full of money being given out in Iraq to heaven knows who. $8.8 Billion, anyone?

8. Former FEMA head Joe Allbaugh resigns and names Brown, his old college roommate and heavy contributor to the Bush campaign, and Brown steps in as the new head of FEMA. With no emergency planning experience. Just a Bush crony. Yeah, I'll bet that salary is nice.

9. FEMA does everything in its power to turn away assistance from all directions after Katrina hits, in order to keep fattening the profits of their *private contractors*. Thousands of Americans are now dead and dying.


It's all a sham.

FEMA is a money laundering scheme to steal power and money from the American people. By folding FEMA into the bloated Homeland Security Department, Bush hopes no one will be the wiser to see how this money is being funneled to keep this criminal element in power.


It's over, Bush.

The people are coming.

[Ilsa]

1. Send this to Sen Tancredo. He seems to think it's the locals in

La that are the crooks.

[tridim]

2. I heard today the first $10.5b was gone in 5 days.

I see water being piped out of NO, some guys in row boats and a few thousand victims getting $2000 cash cards. How could that cost $10.5 BILLION?

[NYC]

6. Blackwater mercenaries are very expensive.

Seems they went to New Orleans on September 1st.

[Old and In the Way]

7. Joe Allbaugh did......he left Iraq and set up shop in Baton Rouge.

You know how this money will be filtered through Republican operatives and contractor-campaign contributors. Our tax dollars are fuunding the Republican Party's operations.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

3. Eight Billion Dollars cash in Iraq 2003 still unaccounted for.

[BrklynLiberal]

4. THAT is why some of them did NOT want to vote for that huge appropriation

without any accountability being attached to how it was going to be spent.

[bribri16]

5. You mean the political appointees of both DHS and FEMA.

The appointees, not the rank and file, always make the most money and do the least to earn a pay check. Most usually use those jobs to travel at government expense and have a great time.

[Old and In the Way]

9. Their chief job is to not ask questions.

Look at "Brownie" and the second in command (One-time Bush chauffer)....their job is make a salary and let someone else handle the budget. I think that's one reason FEMA was folded into DHS....makes the money harder to follow.

I hope someone is following the money...

[MissWaverly]

8. I heard today that they had "leased" 3 cruise ships

that the New Orleans survivors that have been sent to the Astrodome,
turned down, anybody with a brain, knows that these people have seen
enough water for right now, but I believe the tab was 191 million,
for 3 cruise ships for 6 months, first why the outsourcing, secondly
there has to be a way to do it more cheaply than that, you could
probably build houses for 7,000 people for cheaper than that.