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Tuesday, December 13, 2005

FEMA's post-Katrina policies "eccentric and bizarre"

oh, and btw, with "'inaction' 15 weeks after the storm," where's george...?
A federal judge in New Orleans yesterday ordered the Federal Emergency Management Agency to continue paying the hotel bills of thousands of Hurricane Katrina evacuees until as late as Feb. 7, criticizing the government for inaction 15 weeks after the storm.

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Duval's order applies to thousands of the estimated 85,000 evacuee households whose housing aid applications FEMA has not yet processed. He also called on FEMA to publicize its reversal of strict rules that denied aid to thousands of other evacuees, describing FEMA housing policy shifts as "eccentric and bizarre."




so, when the shit was hitting the fan in new orleans and the gulf coast, george was strumming a guitar in california and brownie was considering restaurant dinner options and accessorizing his wardrobe... then george flies in for numerous photo ops, praises brownie to the sky, promises the moon in the reconstruction effort, and now he's nowhere to be found - and neither is the money OR the reconstruction... calling bush a fool is too kind given that one of america's must unique and special cities is still a wasteland...

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