FEMA Wants $4.7M Katrina Benefits Repaid - Yahoo! News. When I saw this headline on Yahoo News, I thought well finally the government will be going after the contractors who stole billions in the so called clean up and reconstruction of the Gulf Coast after Katrina. However, it turned out that this headline was referring to victims of the hurricaine who defrauded the government. Thats all very good but why won't they go a step further and have some REAL oversight on the contractors hired to clean up and reconstruct the Gulf?
At the onset of the contract "bidding" an article in Thomas Paine described the setting:
Some of the same crony contractors who cleaned up in Iraq are beginning to sign big contracts with FEMA. Moreover, the same inexperience and bureaucratic ineptitude that handicapped the agency’s initial response threatens to convert the agency into “an oversized entitlement program,” as former FEMA head-turned Halliburton lobbyist Joe Allbaugh put it in his 2001 confirmation hearings. More>>>
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