"Hurricane Katrina stole just about everything Sheila Moore had in this world.... So when FEMA told her she qualified for thousands of dollars in emergency assistance, she took it. Then, seven months later, in July 2006, Moore received a letter from FEMA demanding its money back; $14,749.51 to be paid in full in 30 days....The emergency funds were spent on food, clothing, and a used car to get to her full-time job. The car even ended up becoming her home for a while."
"the funds weren't misappropriated at all. The government was asking for her $14,000 back because someone had misspelled her name on some internal paperwork."
http://commonsense.ourfuture.org/fema_was_aggressive_about_one_thing
I know, I know I am a liberal ********...hey we all have a cross to .....
2007-09-08 01:22:29 · 6 answers · asked by bruce b 3 in Politics & Government ➔ Government
Love all the answers...well with exceptions
2007-09-08 03:06:06 · update #1
I hope she did not give a penny back. Let them sue her!
Our gov't doesn't let the right hand know what the left hand is doing!
2007-09-08 01:28:33 · answer #1 · answered by PATRICIA MS 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
FEMA is a disaster.
FEMA paid $31 million in Miami-Dade County for Hurricane Frances, even though the storm made landfall 100 miles to the north. Subsequent reports detailed how FEMA inspectors receive little training; that the agency paid for funerals.
Federal Emergency Management Agency in five years poured at least $330 million into communities that were spared the devastating effects of fires, hurricanes, floods and tornadoes.
$5.2 million to Los Angeles area residents for the 2003 wildfires that burned more than 25 miles away.
$168.5 million to Detroit residents for a 2000 rainstorm that the then-mayor doesn't even remember.
$21.6 million in clothing losses alone to Cleveland-area residents for a 2003 storm that brought less than an inch and a half of rain.
20 of the 313 disasters declared by FEMA from 1999 through 2004, selecting cities where the agency's inspectors said they had encountered large-scale fraud. Of the $1.2 billion FEMA paid in those disasters, 27 percent went to areas where official reports showed only minor damage or none at all,
2007-09-08 01:55:51 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Between FEMA, NORAD, Department of Education, Department of Foreign affairs, etc, etc is there actually a department that is doing their jobs appropriate? The government has run most federal government programs down to the ground and its very unfortunate that we accept mediocrity.
2007-09-08 01:29:49 · answer #3 · answered by Edge Caliber 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Why are you too ashamed to admit you're a Canadian? You're question is valid, but when you hide behind the fact that you're a Canadian, it makes you a troll...
Regardless, certain economical demographics of the Katrina welfare club will be crying money for the rest of their lives..
It's beyond FEMA's job to teach these people to be decent citizens. Maybe Canada will take them in since they're a weak socialist cesspool...
2007-09-09 02:33:59 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
FEMA should not have given her the money in the first place. Those are my tax dollars. If Ms. Moore wants to live below sea level, she should assume the risk, not us tax payers.
2007-09-08 01:27:40 · answer #5 · answered by regerugged 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I think FEMA's going to be a mess longer than this town is.
2007-09-08 12:27:26 · answer #6 · answered by Leafy 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋