This is the perfect story:
The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) will halt nearly $30 million in grants to a program aimed at helping Mississippi recover from damage caused by Hurricane Katrina after the agency’s inspector general raised questions about oversight.
In a report to the regional FEMA administrator charged with overseeing Mississippi, Assistant Inspector General Thomas Salmon said the state had not been properly overseeing over the Hazard Mitigation Grant Program.
The program set aside nearly $30 million to repair 2,000 homes devastated by the 2005 storm. But Mississippi says it has spent $31.5 million, more than the total grant program, to repair just 945 damaged homes.
More troubling, FEMA’s inspector general said, Mississippi had only documented $957,776 in spending. The state has not provided documentation to account for the remaining $30.5 million.
What better way to demonstrate why Mississippian supporters of the Republican Party can simultaneously be addicted to federal handouts and utterly convinced that the Fed spends their money imprudently?
They take the money willingly and then essentially pocket it.
I’d say that I hope the conservative Democratic governor of Louisiana will do better with his FEMA money, but I don’t believe that.
In Louisiana, graft and corruption is completely bipartisan and those who aren’t conservative grifters are crooks, also, too.
To be fair, about $30,000 to repair major flood damage is pretty reasonable. The missing documentation is mighty suspicious, though.
My conservative Facebook friends in Louisiana are complaining bitterly about Obama not visiting the flooded disaster area yet. Of course, if he visited they’d complain about the publicity stunt.
Yup, the right-wing is very good at complaining. If Secretary Clinton had used the official State servers – and had her emails sent out by Manning – she’d be under investigation now for not using private email like Colin Powell.
They invent stuff because there’s nothing legitimate.
I’ve decided that the complaints about Obama not visiting mean that there is not any substantive complaint in the right wing universe about the federal response so far. It will come.
RE:
My conservative Facebook friends in Louisiana are complaining bitterly about Obama not visiting the flooded disaster area yet.
The governor asked politicians to hold off visiting. Of course that didn’t stop Trump. IIRC, Obama is now going to visit on Monday.
My liberal Facebook friends in NOLA are organizing donation drives for school supplies and other stuff benefitting teachers & students in BR. They all voted Edwards and Bernie. They’re all voting Clinton too. They remember who fucked them over in 2005-06 and it wasn’t regular folks in BR who sent truckloads of supplies after Katrina.
To be fair, and it’s hard to be with respect to GWB, we lambasted Bush for ignoring Katrina for a few days and then for dropping in for a photo op. Yes, both Bush and Obama had and have full communications with everyone involved, but the optics still look bad. As TarheelDem notes, the Bush administration also used the opportunity to screw over the LA governor.
The presidential presence or non-presence is not as important as the question of where FEMA is and whether it knows what it’s doing, and there the difference between Katrina and now is huge. Obama’s been where it really mattered putting the agency in competent hands and seeing that it works, and that’s where George W. was truly missing in action.
And then there’s the question of whether visiting right now is actually a good idea:
This is different from Katrina in this respect. Neither the White House nor a member of Congress is sandbagging the governor to set up the next election.
I was gonna keep quiet about all those folks ready to give Donald Trump his photo op here in Louisiana, but I can’t. Donald Trump will do nothing for those people…but they are his voters…and here in Louisiana they will likely vote for him in the same breath as they say don’t take my medicaid…
Donald Trump is speaking to my white coworker, who doesn’t see the problem with the Confederate flag and spends their time watching Fox News and reading forwarded emails about conspiracy theories and wonders why “them” folks can’t just speak English…
Sigh…. It sounds patronizing to say they live in an alternative, counterfactual universe, but seriously, how else to explain it?
Yes,
A counter factual universe. With a certainty that that universe is the ‘real’ one.
Sound familiar?
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Conservative delusional reality, enabled by the twin pillars of modern US conservatism: cognitive dissonance of objective, observable reality, paired with projection of their actions, thoughts, and behaviors, onto liberals.
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