An assessment mandated by a congressional inquiry gives a breakdown of how FEMA allowed so much cash to slip through its fingers. "Tough neighborhood syndrome" is a new one on me.
Inspectors wouldn't have had to be dispatched to the ghettoes of Dade County where they had to worry about "hurricane mugging" if those higher up had not erroneously declared Dade a disaster area in the first place.
FEMA's Baghdad Bob, Director Michael Brown, is still in complete denial about the whole situation.
To bad Susan Collins didn't mug FEMA Director Michael Brown like he mugged taxpayers by his oversight failures to the tune of $31,000,000 dollars. Such incompetence by an unelected goverment employee is what burns me up. Where's the accountability? "Ooopppps, we made repeated mistakes over a decade or two but we're going to sit down with senators and determine what we need to do to 'fix' the problem" just isn't going to cut it.
Posted by: Gmac at May 21, 2005 07:12 PMSo, how come there's no talk of Director Michael Brown being booted out? You couldn't keep your job anywhere else if you screwed up like that consistently over the years. Well....except at the UN.
Michael Brown needs to go. He's totally out of touch with the reality of what people expect from his agency and what the agency has actually done.
Posted by: Donnah at May 22, 2005 01:49 PM