[Former Fetus]

I read yesterday that Italy sent $1,000,000 worth of medical supplies for Katrina!

[Troy McGreggor]

You know, I was going to say that I’d bet that all of the aid that Italy sent for Katrina ended up being wasted/unused. And then I thought, well, maybe I should check and see if I can find out something about it before I put my foot in my mouth.

So I found the following, fwiw.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/28/AR2007042801113.html

It claims that all of Italy’s gracious aid was spoiled and/or unused, and that the State Department didn’t want to tell Italy. The moral of the story? It pays to be a cynic, and our gov really is as inefficient and wasteful as we believe it to be.