Where Did All The Money For Katrina Relief Go?

[chattanova]

? Anybody have an idea ?

It's hard for the average working stiff to contemplate a number as vast as the $23.5 billion the federal government has allocated to Mississippi for Katrina recovery.

Think of it this way:
It's enough money to buy two average-sized houses for each of the 65,000 families in Mississippi who lost their homes.

And, there would be enough left over to buy each family a brand-new Honda Accord to drive between their two $166,000 houses. That's the EX-L, V-6 four-door sedan Accord, with all the extras and navigation, not a base model.

It's enough to give each man, woman and child in the three southernmost counties $68,500 apiece. Or, to look at it another way, federal Katrina spending in Mississippi will cost each person in the United States about $94.

Just the $1 billion the U.S. Government Accountability Office estimates FEMA lost to "fraud, waste and abuse" within a short time after the storm would be enough to cover the city of Waveland's budget for 143 years, or buy more than 6,000 new houses.

http://www.sunherald.com/411/story/128363.html

[orgo knight]

The Red Cross has a well documented history of fraud. Read here :)
http://www.rinf.com/news/sep-2005/08.html

[i_am]

The Red Cross has a well documented history of fraud. Read here :)
http://www.rinf.com/news/sep-2005/08.html

and then of course there was the 'Bush-Clinton Katrina Fund' hmmmmm! Wonder where that went?

[truthseeker1980]

Its amazing they had that much money, there was documentry on BBC4 about Katrina the other day. The mobile homes they provided were worse than the crappest mobile homes i have ever seen, with no electricity.

The pikies... cough cough travellers in the UK all have electricity in their mobile homes and take up camp in car parks and field with no access to any amenities, they even have Sky satellite dishes attached to the things, so with all that money like you said they could have bought every person a real house not a substandard prefab mobile box which doesn't even have leccy.

I was really shocked to see how these people have been treated by their government, I suppose the only slightly good thing is its more ammo for the awakening, as most the citizens have realised that their taxes mean nothing to the fat cat federal government and hate the country they live in.

[bicycle]

It was probably spent on the same things that this new carbon tax will be spent on:rolleyes:

[father ted]

It is always the case, charity don't go to charity, sad but true.

[orgo knight]

and then of course there was the 'Bush-Clinton Katrina Fund' hmmmmm! Wonder where that went?
The string pullers are a bunch of turdburgers....It feels nice to know they're losing:D

[anoninnyc]

? Anybody have an idea ?

It's hard for the average working stiff to contemplate a number as vast as the $23.5 billion the federal government has allocated to Mississippi for Katrina recovery.

Think of it this way:
It's enough money to buy two average-sized houses for each of the 65,000 families in Mississippi who lost their homes.

And, there would be enough left over to buy each family a brand-new Honda Accord to drive between their two $166,000 houses. That's the EX-L, V-6 four-door sedan Accord, with all the extras and navigation, not a base model.

It's enough to give each man, woman and child in the three southernmost counties $68,500 apiece. Or, to look at it another way, federal Katrina spending in Mississippi will cost each person in the United States about $94.

Just the $1 billion the U.S. Government Accountability Office estimates FEMA lost to "fraud, waste and abuse" within a short time after the storm would be enough to cover the city of Waveland's budget for 143 years, or buy more than 6,000 new houses.

http://www.sunherald.com/411/story/128363.html

i never thought of it that way before. wow. just wow.

[synergy777]

ben bernanke nicked it, to prop up wall street, lol

[karma19]

I put some cash into a collection of it.............going to ask for a receipt next time.lol And to look at the annual reports!!:rolleyes:

[amerigirl]

I didn't put any "cash" in to charity (other than taxes), but I did go down there w/ the Dept. of Health to help and drive a few trailers down there not to long after it happened. What you see on tv can not even describe it, it's unfathomable how these ppl are living now. Theres thousands of those FEMA trailers just down there rotting, which is just as well b/c they're filled w/ formaldehyde and not intended for long time use anyway. Everybody thats staying in them is getting terribly sick.

[grackle]

I don't know if I can believe this article. I never knew that they recieved money from them.