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To: GovernmentShrinker
The people using them as drug labs should be shot. But the people enterprising enough to make some sort of reasonable use of the trailers (including selling for cash) are 1) not likely to be the sort of deadbeats who've been sitting around collecting welfare all their adult lives (snip)

It seems more likely to me that those who sell the trailers want to use the money mainly to buy drugs, maybe cigarettes or liquor... but that may be the cynic in me.

I am with you on misuse, bad decisions, bureaucracy, and waste by the government, but I still don't think it justifies breaking the law in this case.

Stealing a bus to help people escape a disaster is on a whole different level in my book. The bus wasn't taken with the purpose of keeping it or selling it for personal gain, but it was used to help others in a highly unusual set of circumstances.
35 posted on 11/02/2006 11:54:12 AM PST by FreedomOfExpression (Dime: a dollar with all the taxes taken out.)
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To: FreedomOfExpression

According to the article, only one trailer is known to have been sold, and that one was trucked to Louisiana for sale. In other words, it was put to its intended purpose, to provide housing in an area where much of the original housing stock had been rendered uninhabitable by the hurricane. Probably for some family that had been languishing on a waiting list for months for a FEMA trailer that FEMA had said they were entitled to but couldn't seem to get delivered (there are STILL people waiting on those lists). Whatever the seller did with the money, it can't be worse than what the FEMA f--k-ups are doing with many millions more of our money. I simply can't get worked up about it.

Attempts to make rational use of FEMA resources keep running into interference from FEMA, and that I CAN get worked up about. A few months back, a news report interviewed the mayor of some little Louisiana town, who was trying to get FEMA to move a trailer from the property of a family who didn't need theirs any more to the nearby property of a family which desperately needed it and been getting empty promises from FEMA for months about how they were going to get a trailer. FEMA dweeb told the mayor they'd get to it when they could; mayor told FEMA dweeb he'd just arrange to have it moved himself becuase they'd been waiting for months already; FEMA dweeb told the mayor he'd better not do that because he'd be committing a crime and FEMA would go after him for it (mayor moved it anyway, figuring FEMA would have as much trouble getting around to charging him with a crime as it had getting trailers moved to where they're needed, and a good deal more trouble getting any court to convict him).


46 posted on 11/02/2006 12:44:42 PM PST by GovernmentShrinker
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