FEMA: If You Need Help, Good Luck, But If You're a Bush Crony or a Scam Artist, Let's Write You a Check"

Posted by Cookie Jill at Skippy International:

the handling of aid to victims of hurricane katrina is only the latest in a series of missteps and fraud that has plagued this tax-funded government agency. the sun-sentinel took a look at 20 recent disasters and found mismanagement and misallocation abound. - sun sentinel
hundreds of millions paid to people untouched by disasters
`free money' went to thousands after wildfires
after tornado, a rush to claim cash
agency poured funds into detroit after storms
disasters examined and a whistleblower at fema has stepped forward, too, saying that he (and other career employees) have been warning about the agency for years.

"fema's biggest problem is that too few people in the agency are trained to help in emergencies," he wrote. "we have good soldiers but crummy generals."for the rest of the 1990s, fema improved, bosner said. but since 2001 the agency has again become demoralized and experienced disaster experts have left. - cnn

and then there is sheer incompetence.

and this administrations true desire to kill the entire program