Louisiana Officials Indicted Before Katrina Hit
Federal audits found dubious expenditures by the state's emergency preparedness agency, which will administer FEMA hurricane aid.
We are finally finding out the real story of New Orleans and the rest of Louisiana. I honestly think the government down there is more corrupt than in Chicago…if that is possible.
- These guys stole millions and millions that were suppose to be used for emergency preparedness.
- They bought casinos with the money
- Expensive trips
- Left thousands of buses in a parking lot
- Looked like little cry-babies instead of leaders the day after the storm.
But, since the left believes the federal government takes care of everyone, and no one should practice personal responsibility, this is all GWB’s fault.
That kind of thinking looks more and more ridiculous every day.
Here are today’s facts that make liberals look like crap:
- federal auditors are still trying to track as much as $60 million in unaccounted for funds that were funneled to the state from the Federal Emergency Management Agency dating back to 1998.
- In March, FEMA demanded that Louisiana repay $30.4 million to the federal government.
- They point to criminal indictments of three state workers as evidence the problem was more than management missteps.
- For instance, a Nov. 30, 2004, report by Tonda L. Hadley, a director in the Denton field office, examined $40.5 million sent to the Louisiana agency, mostly for the Hazard Mitigation program. The report found that the state's emergency office did not have receipts to account for 97% of the $15.4 million it had awarded to subcontractors on 19 major projects.
- Questionable expenditures identified by the inspector general included $2,400 for sod installation, several thousand dollars for a trip to Germany by the deputy director, $1,071 for curtains, and $595 for an L.L. Bean parka and briefcase. The inspector general also challenged unspecified spending for camera equipment, professional dues and a 2002 Ford Crown Victoria.
We can see where the people of Louisiana get their bad behavior. I guess spending $800 on a bag with government money is not that unusual in this state.
And we are giving them $51 billion….wow.
How much of that will actually go to help anybody….I’d say less than $20….dollars.
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9 comments:
So Lets fix it. I'm with you. Got any Ideas?
stop voting for democrats...
Now Orleans mayor and Louisiana governor..both democrats...
sorry, waaaay incomplete, wont fix it.
wanna get those people that are robbing us of our Iraqi money? Why no talk about that? Only when it comes to helping America. Why do you hate Americans?
Ron, your answer has nothing to do with anything, and since I graduated from high school, I am too intelligent to understand your liberal "talking points," text book, right out of the liberal manual answer...
Every time school funding gets increased less than liberals want it increased....they say republicans "hate children"
Since you have no argument and you are on the side on no solutions or ideas...you come up with this crap.
You should be ashamed with yourself for typing such filth, and next time try to at least stay on topic
OK, Ron: Here's Robin Williams' plan. Now, let's put this plan into effect, and see how quickly the crime in our inner cities, and dirty LA politicians gets cleaned up. Besides being effective in foreign affairs, a no nonsense plan such as this would work to clean up dirty LA politicians too, if we had a no nonsense stance. That of course, would mean no more excuses for double talking Democrat politicians.
Comedy courtesy of Robin Williams:
The Plan!
You gotta love Robin Williams......
Even if he's nuts! Leave it to Robin
Williams to come up with the perfect
plan. What we need now is for our
UN Ambassador to stand up and
repeat this message.
Robin Williams' plan...(Hard to
argue with this logic!)
"I see a lot of people yelling for peace
but I have not heard of a plan for
peace. So, here's one plan."
1) "The US will apologize to the world for our "interference" in their affairs, past & present. You know, Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin, Tojo, Noriega, Milosevic, Hussein, and the rest of those 'good ole boys', we will never "interfere" again.
2) We will withdraw our troops from all over the world, starting with Germany, South Korea, the Middle East, and the Philippines. They don't want us there. We would station troops at our borders. No one allowed sneaking through holes in the fence.
3) All illegal aliens have 90 days to get their affairs together and leave. We'll give them a free trip home. After 90 days the remainder will be gathered up and deported immediately, regardless of whom or where they are. They're illegal!!! France will welcome them.
4) All future visitors will be tho-
roughly checked and limited to 90 days unless given a special permit!!!! No one from a terrorist nation will be allowed in. If you don't like it there, change it yourself and don't hide here. Asylum would never be available
to anyone. We don't need any more cab drivers or 7-11 cashiers.
5) No foreign "students" over age 21. The older ones are the bombers. If they don't attend classes, they get a "D" and it's back home baby.
6) The US will make a strong effort
to become self-sufficient energy wise. This will include developing nonpolluting sources of energy but will require a temporary drilling of oil in the Alaskan wilderness. The caribou will have to cope for a while.
7) Offer Saudi Arabia and other oil producing countries $10 a barrel for their oil. If they don't like it, we go some place else. They can go somewhere else to sell their production. (About a week of the wells filling up the storage sites would be enough.)
8) If there is a famine or other natural catastrophe in the world, we will not "interfere." They can pray to Allah or whomever, for seeds, rain, cement or whatever they need. Besides most of what we give them are stolen or given
to the army. The people who need
it most get very little, if anything.
9) Ship the UN Headquarters to an isolated island some place. We don't need the spies and fair weather friends here. Besides, the building would make a good homeless shelter or lockup for illegal aliens.
10) All Americans must go to charm and beauty school. That way, no one can call us "Ugly Americans" any longer. The Language we speak is ENGLISH...learn it...or LEAVE...Now, isn't that a winner of a plan?
"The Statue of Liberty is no longer
saying 'Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses.' She's got a baseball bat and she's yelling, 'you want a piece of me?' "
If you agree with the above forward
it to friends...If not, and I would be amazed, DELETE it!!
Just FYI Game:
Sorry about the confusion. Actually the Robin Williams bit was emailed to me from a friend. The part at the bottom, where it says if you don't like it, just "delete it" was included on the original email to me. I simply copied and pasted it here. I wasn't addressing you, although I can understand why you thought it was me, based on my earlier post. And I guess since you're a high school teacher you hear lots of whiny things..so I get the drift where you were coming from. Your mannerisms really are characteristic of a teacher :)
steph said:
Your mannerisms really are characteristic of a teacher
can you explain further?
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