Windy Biggie and Sunny at work.
Posted on 10/08/2006 2:41:52 PM PDT by Ellesu
At the Pinitos Learning Center in Boca Raton, disaster workers dressed as "Windy Biggie" and "Sunny" teach 30 preschoolers a song about how the wind is good, even during a hurricane.
"Windy Biggie is our friend.
"Windy Biggie is strong wind.
"She turns, turns, turns, turns around.
"She's knocking things to the ground."
This is FEMA tax money at work. It's also paying for Hurricane Bingo, puppet shows, "salsa for seniors," and yoga on the beach.
Last year, the Federal Emergency Management Agency awarded Florida $22.6 million for "crisis counseling" for victims of hurricanes Wilma and Katrina.
Florida's program, called Project H.O.P.E. -- Helping Our People in Emergencies -- is still in operation with about 450 workers across the state who spend much of their time leading games and performing shows for groups of residents -- regardless of whether they're in crisis or even experienced the storms, the South Florida Sun-Sentinel has found.
(Excerpt) Read more at sun-sentinel.com ...
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Sounds like "make work" for liberal arts majors.
As a philosophy major you wouldn't catch me dead dressing up as Windy Biggie.
I've had a "Windy Biggie" weekend so far, out my butt that is.
What if they were willing to pay $50K a year?
Depends, what benefits? ;)
Why not, considering that science majors allowed the city to flood?
How's that?
One problem is the mindset that a government agency needs to spend its whole budget.
Agencies like FEMA are there just in case something happens. This isnt a license to spend gobs of money for one emergency.
If we had a year with no issues, FEMA should be giving back lots of money with no issues. It shouldn't affect their budget for next year.
Put the bottle down. It's time for the frontal lobotomy.
Your favorite federal agency...
I doubt that they hired liberal arts clowns to engineer, design, and construct the system that was supposed to keep the water out of the city.
They hired science clowns to do that!
Windy Biggie and Sunny at work.
I agree, and many of those failings were exposed during Katrina and Rita; now lets examine what the two Bush administrations and 10 years of Republican Congesses have done to fix it.
big government is big government - if there is money to be tossed around liberally, the government will find a way to do it.
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