The NEW Fift...er....FEMA!

Okay, okay...
Slight dig at WCHS there but hey....

FEMA is reinventing itself, so they say.
New leadership, so they say.
He's a competent feller with experience in emergency response.

Yeah, so they say.

This this small bit from msnbc:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9665434/

WASHINGTON — When the history of the chaotic Katrina relief effort is written, a chapter will be devoted to ice, and to trucks that toured the country for weeks, many never delivering a single cube to victims. FEMA now says it bought 182 million pounds of ice and that only 40 percent was used. The rest, it says, is being positioned for future storms.
The rocky coast of Portland, Maine, is nowhere near hurricane territory. Yet 163 truckloads of excess ice bought for Katrina victims are now stored there, 1,600 miles from the Gulf Coast. The cost to taxpayers: $153,000.

Okay, are you seriously telling me that FEMA is storing ICE? Not close by where current victims and workers in the recovery effort can access it ice, but thousands of miles away costing us more than one hundred thousand dollars ICE??

Mr. Bush!!! Oh, Mr Bush! I think I see where we can scavenge funds to help pay for some of the reconstruction.

Seriously. Two points. #1 - What talking head decides it's better to store ice than take it to the survivors who still struggle in 90 degree heat, many who still say they haven't seen FEMA and
#2 - Who the hell stores ice 1000 miles away when even with a disaster it could be shipped in fresh from less distance?

Oh and #3 -
Who the hell hires these guys!?