Link - Yeah by this time you could get a job and start all over and have something. Illegals do it all the time!

The $5.6 billion housing assistance program that provided temporary trailers and hotel rooms to victims was supposed to end in 2007. But the deadline was extended by two years to May 1 of this year to help the more than 5,000 individuals and families still struggling to rebuild their lives. (At its peak, 143,000 households along the Gulf Coast were located in temporary housing units.)

We're currently facing an ugly decision -- either extending the extended program indefinitely, I guess, or discontinuing the program for 5,000 people," Rep. Lincoln Diaz-Balart, R-Fla., said.

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Link - I'm really mad and want to see some serious punishment for those aholes. I hope at least God sticks it to them.

by some estimates, involve thousands of people who bilked the federal government and charities out of hundreds of millions of dollars intended to aid storm victims.

_In Washington, D.C., Jeffrey Alan Rothschild was sentenced to 8 1/2 years in prison after pleading guilty to trying to acquire more than $100,000 in disaster aid, and admitting other financial crimes. Rothschild created false identities, obtaining some from a legal directory. He was able to get 38 FEMA checks, using mailboxes in Florida, Tennessee, New York and Virginia.

Link - That almost makes me go, f those people next time around. That's just crap. They should have some real severe punishment for abusers.

The GAO cited incidents in which FEMA gave $17 million in housing assistance to individuals who had already obtained free housing in the form of trailers or apartments and $20 million that went to people who improperly claimed for help for both storms that ravaged the U.S. Gulf Coast area.

Link - I thought they were going to get rid of it after that mess.

Link - You help people out and they piss all over you. Nice.

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[Link] - The mayor of New Orleans says the city has to lay off as many as 3,000 workers.

Good job idiots.

[Link] - Relief efforts to combat Hurricane Katrina suffered near catastrophic failures due to endemic corruption, divisions within the military and troop shortages caused by the Iraq war, an official American inquiry into the disaster has revealed.

[Link] - About 250 police officers _ roughly 15 percent of the force _ will be investigated for leaving their posts without permission during Hurricane Katrina and the storm's chaotic aftermath, a deputy police chief said Tuesday.

[Link] - Journalists and officials who have reviewed the Katrina disaster blamed the inaccurate reporting in large measure on the breakdown of telephone service, which prevented dissemination of accurate reports to those most in need of the information. Race may have also played a factor.

[Link] - But now, a month after the chaos subsided, police are re-examining the reports and finding that many of them have little or no basis in fact.

When they ask me when will I violence cease? When your troops stop shootin niggas down in the streets Niggas had enough, time to make a difference Bear witness on are own business fuck the gaurd cause it's hard tryin to make ends meet But we couldn't afford the shit, now everythings free So we loot, please don't shot when ya see I'm takin from them, cause for years they would take from me Now the tables are turned around You didn't listen until the nigga burned it down Now Bush can't stop the hit I predict the shit, in 2pacalypse

Link - President Bush on Monday questioned the plan to allow residents to return to New Orleans, saying there are too many concerns about additional flooding and safety in the city.

[Link] - Bush Rules Out Tax Hike to Fund Recovery

[Link] - Hours after Hurricane Katrina passed New Orleans on Aug. 29, as the scale of the catastrophe became clear, Michael D. Brown recalls, he placed frantic calls to his boss, Michael Chertoff, the secretary of homeland security, and to the office of the White House chief of staff, Andrew H. Card Jr.

[Link] - The husband-and-wife owners of a nursing home near New Orleans were charged Tuesday with negligent homicide in the deaths of 34 people during the flooding unleashed by Hurricane Katrina.

[Link] - Hurricane Katrina's death toll in Louisiana climbed to 423 Tuesday, up from 279 a day before, the state Health Department said.

Still not as bad as 12,000 from that one hurricane many years back. The destruction of the city is certainly terrible but the loss of life is what really matters. Long as people got the shelter and food they need.

[Link] - President Bush said Tuesday that "I take responsibility" for failures in dealing with Hurricane Katrina and said the disaster raised broader questions about the government's ability to respond to natural disasters as well as terror attacks.

Last night the History Channel had a great show on New Orleans with history and the layout and what went wrong. Those guys were just asking for it. The Netherlands spent 8 billion and like many years to build this awesome defense and we had some little retarded wall that everyone knew was going to fail.

[Link] - New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin says the hurricane-devastated city is bankrupt and is scrambling for loans to pay its employees through the end of the year.

[Link] - Forty-five bodies have been found at a hospital that was evacuated more than a week ago after it was surrounded by floodwaters unleashed by Hurricane Katrina, a state health official said Monday.

That totally sucks :(