[DH]

Trying to get money back from these deadbeats will be like trying to poke butter up a wildcat's ass with a red hot poker.

Good Luck!

[spikeytx86]

I want a 36 inch waistline too, but I think I will be modeling for Calvin Kline before Uncle Sam sees a nickle back.

[jimtorr]

Typical.

There has been a constant drumbeat of criticism of FEMA, and attacks on Bush, about how FEMA did not react quickly enough. Now that the extent of the fraud is being revealed, there will be constant criticism about waste.

[Lurker]

I lost track of the number of times I said "No sh**." while reading this.

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[Uncle Ike]

Funny --

The people who squawked, at the time, for the Gummint to cover Louisiana waist-deep in dollar bills, and that would make everything all better.....

Are now finding out that "waist deep" means "waste deep" -- and there's nothing "all better" about it.....

[Dahoser]

Wait! I thought all the money that could have gone to Louisiana went to Iraq instead.

[Zack Nguyen]

At least 162,750 homes that didn't exist before the storms may have received a total of more than $1 billion in improper or illegal payments, the AP found.

But...but...the federal government was racist in not supplying enough funds to Katrina victims.

[Lurker]

Dixon, 25, said she saw people bilk taxpayers while she fought for basic assistance to help feed and clothe her five children, ages 1 to 10.

She had her first kid at 15. She never had a chance.

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[dforest]

This is what happens when the government passes out money in a big hurry based on media and Democrat party hype and guilt. When it comes to Katrina, no sound judgement was used, which opened up huge opportunities for defrauding the American taxpayers. I am still waiting for sanity to someday return to this nation.

[Dosa26]

Good luck getting it back from the guy my buddy used to work with. He got his fraud check and smoked himself to death on crack within a week. Good investment for the gov imo.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

Other than pay for infrastructure and restore basic services, there should have been zero tax dollars to NOLA. Just declare the area a tax-free enterprise zone and let the private sector work its magic.

NOLA would have been up and running by now, IMO.

[Calpernia]

Let's not forget this tidbit:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1493302/posts
FR Exclusive: John Kerry, Mary Landrieu, MoveOn DNC and Katrina

[PBRSTREETGANG]

Nothing like "closing the barn door after the horse is gone".

[buffyt]

I live in Southern California but still own my house in Lake Jackson Texas right on the Gulf Coast. My 25 year old son lives in our house while we are gone (Husband is on assignment here as a Dow Chemical Engineer) We didn't lose a tree or a fence or a window or a shingle in the 2005 hurricanes. But I hear EVERY DAY in California that the entire Gulf Coast was destroyed by the hurricanes. I tell people that Galveston and Houston were spared they are fine. Lake Jackson was spared and it is fine. Then one gal asked me "Have you been back to your house to check on it?" I guess she thinks I just don't know that my house was destroyed. Yes I have been back to my house about four times a year and it is just fine. I guess the news media kept saying the Gulf Coast was declared a disaster area and Californians assume it means the entire coast. I keep trying to explain, NO, it is just in the areas where the storm hit. We were on the dry/clean side of both storms.

[Calpernia]

Ping from your question on the Duncan Hunter thread.

Here is an update on Katrina/New Orleans.