FEMA Tells 150,000 in Hotels to Exit In 15 Days

[donsu]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/15/AR2005111501704.html


The Federal Emergency Management Agency yesterday warned an estimated 150,000 Hurricane Katrina evacuees living in government-subsidized hotels that they have until Dec. 1 to find other housing before it stops paying for their rooms.

The announcement effectively starts the clock ticking toward a new exodus of Gulf Coast storm victims who have been living rent-free in 5,700 hotels in 51 states and U.S. territories under the $273 million program.

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The deadline will fall hardest in Texas, where 19,734 hotel rooms are occupied by Katrina evacuees, and Georgia, where they are housed in about 8,900 rooms

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"It appears that FEMA is working very hard to make itself so unreliable that state and local governments will say, 'We can't depend on FEMA in the future,' " Crowley said. "I can't imagine what other explanation there can be for this level of incompetence."
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well, they all can hitch hike home to N.O., where the dead are waiting.

you know - us amerians would have gone there to retrieve the dead but the bushgang wouldn't let us.

us americans would have gone and rescued people from homes, attics, roofs, etc. if the bushgang would have let us.

us amerians would have been in the dome if the bushgang would have let us.

you know we all were just aching to help, but the bushgang wouldn't let us.

so we didn't.

[LibDemAlways]

1. Where's the outrage?

Last night I was talking with two women, one a teacher, the other a social worker, about giving to charity. Both commented that they had given to the Red Cross for Katrina victims and thought every American who could should do so.

I said that while that was all well and good, where the hell was FEMA - the government agency with a mandate to assist disaster victims - paid for by our tax dollars. Neither of them had given much thought to the woefully inadequate - actually criminal - response by the feds. The repukes have screamed about how terrible "big" government is so loudly and for so long, that people believe it and actually are willing to give the government a pass when it fails to provide even for the most basic human needs.

Private charity should never, ever be thought of as a substitute for "your tax dollars at work" - but that seems to be what it's come to under these murdering thugs masquerading as public servants.

[Sequoia]

3. FEMA is full of Grinches and Scrooges

We're going to have thousands and thousands of homeless people. Merry f'ing Christmas.

[lies and propaganda]

2. and on to FEMAville trailer parks

this months Rolling Stone has a great article about all the people still in trailers after hurricane Charley. MASSIVE drug, burglary, and sex predator issues. Not to mention no money, no jobs and the guv doesnt give a fuck.

I agree with every point you made. I am from SW LA, and all i wanted to do what to get in and help. You still cant to this day. My friends they were able to get to their homes had to sneak in.

[donsu]

4. that's terrible, that they have to sneak around just to go home

to their own neighborhood.