FEMA Presents: Mismanagement on Ice!

[Joe Sick]

Media outlets around the country are reporting that trucks loaded with millions of pounds of ice meant for the Gulf region are popping up nationwide. FEMA redirected the trucks away from the South after realizing they had ordered too much ice, but the agency is paying truckers up to $900 a day to sit idly in their trucks far away from the affected areas.

“The $9,000 they’re paying me to move this load should have gone to some family down there,” one disgruntled trucker said. “There is definitely millions being wasted that could go to people who need it.”

Here’s where the FEMA “Icecapades” tour has been so far:

- Boise, Idaho
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/9379239/
- Portland, Maine
http://pressherald.mainetoday.com/news/local/050921ice.shtml
- Glouster, Massachusetts
http://www.ecnnews.com/cgi-bin/05/gtstory.pl?-sec-Pageone+fn-fn-gice2-20050921-+page_0
- Joplin, Arkansas
http://kennebecjournal.mainetoday.com/news/local/1978720.shtml
- Memphis, Tennessee
http://www.volunteertv.com/Global/story.asp?S=3840533
- Fremont, Nebraska
http://www.fremontneb.com/articles/2005/09/19/news/news1.txt
- Upper Macungie Township, Pennsylvania
http://www.mcall.com/news/local/all-a1_5icesep20,0,2500683.story?coll=all-newslocal-hed
- Cumberland, Maryland
http://www.mcall.com/news/local/all-a1_5icesep20,0,2500683.story?coll=all-newslocal-hed

Look for it in a town near you!

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I can understand Arkansas and maybe Tennessee, but Idaho? Maine?

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So you say we need to be ready for the NEXT storm? Well, why would we do this?

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/tm_objectid=16147117&method=full&siteid=94762&headline=up-in-flames--name_page.html

Tons of British aid donated to help Hurricane Katrina victims to be BURNED by Americans
From Ryan Parry, US Correspondent in New York

HUNDREDS of tons of British food aid shipped to America for starving Hurricane Katrina survivors is to be burned.

US red tape is stopping it from reaching hungry evacuees.

Instead tons of the badly needed Nato ration packs, the same as those eaten by British troops in Iraq, has been condemned as unfit for human consumption.

[Huly]

That is crazy but unfortunately it happens all the time!

[Art Monk Fan]

This is why I like my government small and out of my business.

[Cskin]

So.. is this thread just a futher attempt to blame the suffering of those affected by the hurricane on Bush?

Because, quite the contrary, it just provides further evidence of bloated, ineffective, and unproductive goverment that never should have gotten to this point if the cockroaches in Washington had simply followed the Constitution and kept their greedy little claws out of our lives.

It's quite apparent private entities can better serve the people affected when coupled with ONLY military assets and personell utilized in constructive ways.

[chomerics]

Because, quite the contrary, it just provides further evidence of bloated, ineffective, and unproductive goverment that never should have gotten to this point if the cockroaches in Washington had simply followed the Constitution and kept their greedy little claws out of our lives.

That would be the republican government right? ;)

[Sarge]

That would be the republican government right? ;)

All government