Tag: FEMA
Posted on Tue Oct 30, 2012 at 08:45:00 AM EST
Tags: Mitt Romney, FEMA (all tags)
Mitt Romney is pathetic. He's holding a "storm relief" campaign event tomorrow -- in Ohio, with NASCAR driver Richard Petty and singer Randy Owen. Is there anything the shameless know-nothing won't exploit in his attempt to win the election? AmericaBlog has more.
Earlier today, as his MittMobile van drove around, supposedly collecting supplies, he asked people to donate canned goods and blankets. Had he bothered to check the Red Cross website, he would have seen this is exactly what the relief agencies advises against doing. It can actually impede aid efforts.
Hey, Mitt, if you want to help, how about writing a check and making a personal donation? Or better yet, staying out of the way.
On a lighter note, check out #romneystormtips and #mittstormtips on Twitter -- some funny ones below: [More..]
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Posted on Wed Dec 06, 2006 at 03:53:01 PM EST
Tags: FEMA, Katrina (all tags)
In the days and weeks following Hurricane Katrina’s devastation of New Orleans, it’s understandable that FEMA would give a higher priority to helping the needy than to assuring that they really were needy. It’s more difficult to excuse wasteful payment of fraudulent claims that came months after the hurricane dissipated.
A GAO audit shows that FEMA has an ineffective oversight process and therefore continues to pay fraudulent claims. FEMA has wasted or been cheated out of at least $1 billion. At the same time, it hasn’t always put the money where it’s really needed, resulting in a recent court order “to resume housing payments for thousands of people displaced by Katrina.”
Not all of the loss resulted from fraudulent claims. FEMA can’t seem to keep track of the equipment that its employees purchased:
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