Tuesday, July 08, 2008

More Republican's Not Caring


The outrage that is Katrina never seems to go away:

Prisons in Mississippi got coffee makers, pillowcases and dinnerware -- all intended for victims of Hurricane Katrina.

The state's Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks took more coffee makers, cleaning supplies and other items.

Plastic containers ended up with the Mississippi Department of Finance and Administration.

Colleges, volunteer fire departments and other agencies received even more.

But the Mississippi hurricane victims who originally were intended to receive the supplies got nothing, a CNN investigation has found. VideoWatch victims tell why they need the items »

"It's scary to know that there are supplies that they are harboring and people [are] in need right now as we speak today," said Sharon Hanshaw, director of Coastal Women for Change, a nonprofit group helping storm victims.

Last month, CNN revealed that the Federal Emergency Management Agency had stored $85 million worth of household items in warehouses for two years. Instead of giving the supplies to victims of the 2005 hurricane, FEMA declared them surplus and gave them all away to federal agencies and 16 states in February.

The state of Louisiana -- the most hard-hit by the storm -- had not asked for any of the supplies, prompting outrage in the community after the original CNN report.


Because Louisiana was never informed the supplies existed.

This is George Bush's "heckuva job" FEMA at work.

The FEMA that Joe Lieberman, McCain's most ardent and assiduous lover, refuses to look into or hold accountable for shit as Senate Committee Chairman of Homeland Security.

Don't look for the media to quiz anybody over this, especially his most Holy Joe.

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