Huge math error in Katrina supply giveaway

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Source: CNN

(CNN) -- Federal officials vastly overestimated the value of hurricane relief supplies given away earlier this year, the Federal Emergency Management Agency reported Monday.

The General Services Administration, which manages federal property, over-counted cases of toilet paper, plastic sporks and other cutlery, by mistakenly counting a single item as being worth as much as multiple items contained in a package of goods.

The original FEMA estimate of $85 million should have been $18.5 million, according to figures released by GSA and FEMA.

The household goods were supposed to go to people whose homes were destroyed by hurricanes Katrina and Rita in 2005. But the items were stored in warehouses in Louisiana, and then Fort Worth, Texas. A recent CNN investigative story exposed that those materials never made it to storm victims.

Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/07/21/katrina.supplies/index.html

[MadMaddie]

1. I wonder which incompetent that had figuring out the $$$$

For the definition of incompetence just look at All of the * appointees

[saigon68]

2. "Hey BROWNIE--You're doing a Hell of a Job", The CHIMP

LOL LOL :-)

[Arctic Dave]

3. So, does this mean that the katrina

victims received less to begin with? If so, why?

[Ian David]

4. It's still enough to fill 210 tractor trailers. n/t

[Bjorn Against]

5. "Well at least our PR people sounded good when they said they were giving away four times as much"

Wow, they sure do have lots of very convenient "math errors".

[spag68]

6. I'm sure

that if you dug deep enough, you would find that they paid an exorbitant amount to store the stuff. Dig further and you will find that the sweetheart deal for storage went to a friends of gwb contributor.

[Javaman]

7. Yeah, "mistakenly" over counted. Someone made out like a bandit on this

and it sure wasn't the people in New Orleans.

more repuke fuckers.

[WriteDown]

8. What type of calculators are they using?

How can you possibly make this type of error?

[Doctor_J]

9. The Shock Doctrine

So the NOLAns can sit there without food for months, and then turn on the radio and hear the residents of Weiner Nation yell and scream about how they are lazy leeches.

I wonder where the 66.5 million went?