Harry Reid...is.."ashamed for our country" because of Katrina Mobile Homes

[in_cog_ni_to]

I hope this isn't a repeat post. Harry's a tad upset over the trailor debacle. I hope he continues to SCREAM about it. Those trailors cost $350 MILLION - $800 MILLION!!!!! They just let them sit there and fall apart while people are living in TENTS!:grr:


Reid 'Ashamed' Over Katrina Mobile Homes
By PEGGY HARRIS, Associated Press Writer
Sat Mar 11, 9:42 PM

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - Senate minority leader Harry Reid said Saturday he was "ashamed for our country" after visiting the thousands of FEMA-owned mobile homes lined up at Hope Airport that have yet to be used as shelters for hurricane victims on the Gulf Coast.

"I can't imagine that we could have a sea of 11,000 mobile homes sitting there, rotting, while people around the country can't find a place to live," the Nevada Democrat said.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency has said that it was unable to put the trailers to use because federal regulations prohibit placing them in flood plains, and many of those needing shelter after the hurricanes are in areas classified as flood-prone.

Cost estimates for the trailers have ranged from $350 million to $800 million.

"I'm terribly mystified, disappointed and ashamed for our country," said Reid, who visited the site with Sen. Mark Pryor, D-Ark.<snip>

http://www.comcast.net/news/politics/index.jsp?cat=POLITICS&fn=/2006/03/11/343619.html

[Oversea Visitor]

1. Amazing

What superd leadeship.
Cannot even cut through butter.

[IndyOp]

2. I am terribly disappointed that Harry's "mystified" ==

Wake up Sheeple of the Senate -- the neocon SOBS do not give one drop of diarrhea about human life, only profit. They probably restricted where the homes could be put so that their cronies can get paid twice, twice -- once for the trailers now rotting and again for whatever FEMA decides to let them put up 'in the flood zone' -- like more tents, perhaps??

:grr:

[in_cog_ni_to]

3. You know only a handful, at MOST, of our Senators and Reps have gone to

the Gulf Coast to witness the devastation??? I was SHOCKED when I heard that the other day. WTF? They have had 6 freakin' months to get their asses down there! :grr: They're too busy raising $$$$$$$$$$ for their next election to be bothered with the citizens that employ them?:grr:

[redphish]

4. Let me see if I can figure out a solution to this....

CHANGE THE DAMN REGULATIONS!!!!! Geez, this congress can't do a damn thing if it doesn't involve stuffing more of our money in their puppeteers pockets.

:argh:

[donco6]

5. I don't suppose changing the reg. is an idea?

Here in my little nothing school district, if a board policy gets in the way of doing something good for kids, we change the policy.

I guess the population of N.O. isn't as important as Terri Shiavo.

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

6. I am constantly ashamed at asshats like Harry

Ried.

And I say that knowing full well he is almost our best hope there.

Geesh.

Read Civil War history folks. The parallels are scary.

[SharonAnn]

7. Sen. Harry Reid is the one who brought Jim Jeffords out of the GOP.

He has many virtues along with a few failings.

[Golden Raisin]

8. Harry can add to the "ashamed" list:

o Torture
o Rendition
o Warrantless domestic spying
o Fiscal recklessness/national debt bordering on insanity
o The so-called "Patriot" Act
o War crimes
o The carnage & havoc we have wrought in Iraq
o Nonstop lying
o Blatant Corruption
o Spitting on the Constitution & the Bill of Rights
o Democrats who don't have a spine or a pair of balls (except for Feingold)

BushCo has turned my country into a something I no longer recognize. That's not quite true. It looks & feels alot like Germany in the early 1930's.

[Imagevision]

9. Truly ming-boggling how Bush re-acted so poorly to Katrina victims

and Fema still doesn't have a handle on the clean-up as thousands of tax paid for empty trailers sit and rot on leased property.

Fema wasn't this bad under Clinton!

[Devlzown]

10. Anderson Cooper reported on that a month ago.

I watched the program. Here's a link about it: http://www.cnn.com/CNN/Programs/anderson.cooper.360/blog/2006/02/katrina-mobile-homes-immobile-in.html They say they can't put those trailers on flood plains. That's like telling people in California after an earthquake that they can't offer housing on shaky ground.:mad: