Katrina Tax dollars, hard at work

[matt]

Want to know what the $2000 Kartina relief debit cards were used for? These people should be thrown out into the middle of the Gulf.

I want to post the images, but they are too big. The Smoking Gun (http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/0214061katrina1.html) has them. Go to the second page.

[monkey neck]

Want to know what the $2000 Kartina relief debit cards were used for? These people should be thrown out into the middle of the Gulf.

I want to post the images, but they are too big. The Smoking Gun (http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/0214061katrina1.html) has them. Go to the second page.

Oh come on, matt, if you got one of those cards, you wouldn't go straight to the tattoo parlor and get a $450 tattoo that said "I survived Hurricane Katrina, and all I got from the gubment was this lousy tattoo"? :D

[matt]

*crawls back under rock*

[monkey neck]

Yeah, and stay there! :p

[markalot]

Funny.

First I thought FEMA was too slow and not helping people but now we find out they were too quick to help people? I'm cornfused.

[george]

I think this report also showed that the vast, vast majority of recipients used the debit cards for necessities, as intended.

There are bad apples in every barrel.

[sueque222]

I think this report also showed that the vast, vast majority of recipients used the debit cards for necessities, as intended.

There are bad apples in every barrel.
Exactly. Thanks for pointing that out. I think those who abused the system should be punished to full extent of the law - indeed, I think the laws should perhaps be changed to allow for stricter penalties. (Probably not matt's suggestion, though.) Maybe the rotten apples wouldn't be so confident they could get away with it next time, and people wouldn't be so skeptical about providing aid to those in need.

[Homsar]

No matter the windfalls, people still find a way to squander them.