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FEMA's Post-Brown Efficiency Melts Away
When Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast and the levees broke in New Orleans, people in Louisiana and Mississippi desperately needed ice to prevent spoliage of tons of food. But despite urgent pleas for ice, none came. You may recall that several trucks filled with ice sat in another state for days--just sat there. Finally, when the ice did arrive, there was way too much of it.
FEMA's own regulations clearly state that unused ice must be disposed of after three months, but FEMA ignored its own rules and put the ice in storage in various parts of the country. Now, after two years, the agency has realized that the ice may be contaminated, and is dumping it. But only after taxpayers--you and I--paid $12.5 million to store it.
Posted by Diane E. Dees on 07/25/07 at 4:36 PM | E-mail | Print | Digg | de.licio.us | Reddit | Newsvine | Yahoo! MyWeb | StumbleUpon | Netscape | Google |
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I remember at the time the ice was just sitting that conservative talk radio was using it as an example to show that government can't do anything. Katrina is a potentially a great issue for liberals, but be forwarned that conservatives will try to twist it and it won't be hard, given that it was indeed a government agency that screwed up. The screw up, of course, was privatization, in this case leaving so much emergency resposne to private contractors. I hope to see some Democratic cnadidates make deprivatization a campaign theme.
Posted by: Eric Ferguson on 07/25/07 at 7:47 PM