AUDIO: POWELL CALLS BLANCO "UNGRATEFUL" ...
linked at http://wwww.thedeadpelican.com
There was a time years ago that I would have voted for Powell for POTUS in a heartbeat. But he's turned out to be so liberal these days that I'm surprised everytime he takes a swing at a bone head lib or says something conservative.
The Blanco Road Home web page bears our Moon's figures on the program. The stats page also reads like a test case in government ineptness and citizen uninvolvement. They've taken in 100,000 applications, then they have to schedule an interview, make a determination, have the people who qualify make a choice of benefit, get the benefit process executed, and finally cut a check. At each level, somewhere between a third and two thirds of the people in the process get sidetracked.
Bottom line? Out of a hundred thousand applications, they've written less than 300 checks. Well... that's checks to the beneficiaries. The checks to the patronage employees operating the system have been flowing right along.