Subj : Re: Brownie
To   : All
From : Finnigann
Date : Wed Sep 28 2005 07:26 pm

 * Originally in: TV-NET Farscape
 * Originally on: 09-28-05 15:42
 * Originally by: John I
 * Originally to: alt.tv.farscape

From Newsgroup: alt.tv.farscape

Finnigann wrote:

>   To: John Iwaniszek
> -=> John Iwaniszek wrote to alt.tv.farscape <=-
> 
>  JI> From Newsgroup: alt.tv.farscape
> 
>  JI> Guess what unqualified political hack and failure as a director of
>  a JI> federal emergency management agency is back working with the feds
>  as a JI> consultant studying how the feds fucked up?  Does Bush TRY to
>  fuck up? 
> 
> 
>  JI> "6:44 pm(CBS) CBS News correspondent Gloria Borger reports that
>  Michael JI> Brown, who recently resigned as the head of the FEMA, has
>  been rehired JI> by the agency as a consultant to evaluate it's
>  response following JI> Hurricane Katrina." (http://tinyurl.com/afzwb)
> 
> 
> It's a gift...
> 
> 
> 


Actually, it looks like they are intentionally fucking up:

"Two days after Hurricane Katrina slammed into the Gulf Coast, the Department 
of Housing and Urban Development announced plans to issue emergency vouchers 
aimed at helping poor storm victims find new housing quickly by covering as 
much as $10,000 of their rent.

But the department suddenly backed away from the idea after White House aides 
met with senior HUD officials. Although emergency vouchers had been 
successfully used after the 1994 Northridge earthquake, the administration 
focused instead on a plan for government-built trailer parks, an approach 
that even many Republicans say would concentrate poverty in the very fashion 
the government has long sought to avoid.

A similar struggle has occurred over how to provide healthcare to storm 
victims. White House officials are quietly working to derail a proposal by 
leading Republican and Democratic senators to temporarily expand Medicaid. 
Instead, the administration is pushing a narrower plan that would not commit 
the government to covering certain groups of evacuees."

Why?  Very simple:  Ideology


"Instead of depending on long-running programs for such services as housing 
and healthcare, the president has generally tried to create new, one-shot 
efforts that the administration apparently hopes will more easily disappear 
after the crisis passes."

Even the gibberinly insane Gingrich thinks it's a bad idea.  (although Not 
because people won't be helped, but because of the political fallout.)


http://tinyurl.com/b46wy
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