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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).