New Orleans Just Keeps Getting Fucked:

(Via truthout)

New Orleans, Louisiana - FEMA gave away about $85 million in household goods meant for Hurricane Katrina victims, a CNN investigation has found.

The material - from basic kitchen goods to sleeping necessities - sat in warehouses for two years before the Federal Emergency Management Agency's giveaway to federal and state agencies this year.

James McIntyre, FEMA's acting press secretary, told CNN that FEMA was spending more than $1 million a year to store the material and that another agency wanted the warehouses torn down, so "we needed to vacate them."

"Upon review of our assets and our need to continue to store them, we determined that they were excess to FEMA's needs; therefore, they are being excessed from FEMA's inventory," McIntyre wrote in an e-mail.

He declined a request for an on-camera interview, telling CNN the giveaway was "not news."

Yeah, well I bet the people who have yet to return home in New Orleans might consider it news.

FEMA said some of the items were donations from companies after Katrina, but most were purchased in the field as "starter kits" for people living in trailers provided by the agency. And even though the stocks were offered to state agencies after FEMA decided to get rid of them, one of the states that passed was Louisiana.

This is utterly typical of how BushCo handles anything to do with people who are outside their strata. And government money was spent on a lot of this, just to basically give it away.

Fuck 'em. The people in this administration are maggots who should be facing criminal charges.