What DID Jeb do with all that FEMA money?

[SoCalDem]

For about 3 years running, the state of Florida has requested and GOTTEN enormous amounts of federal money to cope with what is a given occurence...Hurricanes hitting a long peninsula, sitting smack-dab in the middle of Hurricane Alley.

The fact that sometimes the season is mild, is NO guarantee that it will always be so. The rampant (and shoddy) construction that continues, is largely responsible for the ever-mounting costs associated with the annual hurrican season.

While watching the Weather Channel today, NUMEROUS reporters...scattered all over the coastline, are calling attention to, and sometimes seeking shelter inside terribly compromised , damaged remains of LAST YEAR'S storms...and pointing out HUGE piles of rubble that will be this year's "flying projectiles".

Many of our own DUers are still having issues getting stuff from last year fixed, and are still dealing with insurance and federal agencies. If so much money was not needed right on the beaches, perhaps there could be more left for ordinary people who suffered mostly flooding from the rain, and wind damage.

Beach clean up after a hurricane, used to be ocean debris, brought in from the pounding surf.. Just because someone CAN buy beachfront sand and plop down a million dollar "cottage", is NO reason that they should be allowed to do it. Even if they do pay huge insurance premiums, does anyone really think that the other Floridians are not paying part of the "cottage's" rebuilding expense?

One reporter pointed to a home damaged last year, where "they just finished installing the new carpet and tile a few weeks ago, and...." (well you get the drift)...

Eminent Domain issues abound in Florida (and in the fire-canyons and forests opf California, too).. Perhaps FEMA money could be better used as seed money to start buying up the coastline, and returning it to PUBLIC land that will not bankrupt the "aid" funds year after year.

Like the beach? Fine.. GO there..pitch a tent..stay a few blocks inland and ride a bike or hike to the sand..Leave it to nature and nature will take care of it.. The savings would be worth it, if, as storms take these behemoths down, they were just left down... Mother Nature is just trying to buck them off her beaches..like a wild Mustang tries to throw a would-be rider..

[kliljedahl]

1. I wanta buy a house near an airport

& then complain about the noise the planes make, so don't bring that up. As soon as I move from my house on the river bank floodplain that is.


Keith’s Barbeque Central

[SoCalDem]

2. People near Long Beach airport out here did JUST that..

They bought cheap land (gee WHY was it so cheap :eyes:), and later filed a lawsuit about the excessive noise from the airport they were next to..:shrug:..people!!

[kliljedahl]

4. Never could understand that

I guess they REALLY ARE that stupid. Probably voted for * because he was a "compassionate conservative". If you can vote for an oxymoron, you'll probably believe anything.


Keith’s Barbeque Central

[BornaDem]

3. To answer your question about what did he do with the $?...

Maybe he bought votes for his brother in the election. Pittsburgh TV claims that people in FL, Miami I believe, got all kinds of $ from FEMA where it didn't even rain hard let alone have wind damage, while people in P'burgh got nothing who lost everything in the flooding from the tail end of one of the hurricanes last year that came up through the FL panhandle. Just an idea of where the $ might have gone since the election was not even close like the previous one was.

[sam sarrha]

5. jeb bailed out the Corporate schools with the state pension money

state Schools for profit..??
http://www.bookynjoe.com/archives/2003_09.html
the nearly decade old company only showed profit 1 quater.. another!!! fraud to destrpy pensions..!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Neil took the $20,000,000 the Silverado hucksters gave him for the insider info that cost the taxpayers $5,000,000,000 and started a chain of tutoring centers that help up scale kids score high on Dubyas funky Test

[fishnfla]

6. the beach? WTF are you talking about?

the damage was statewide,not just in the surf, my friend. There was alot of damage everywhere. More roofs than there are roofing companies.

Part of the problem with FEMA was corruption, some folks in S. Florida, where there was not alot of damage, filed bogus claims. Some of the people handing out the cash were too generous