FEMA to resuers: Pay for your own damn gas

[Halliburton]

http://dailykos.com/story/2005/9/1/211114/2959

:grr:

[Robert Oak]

1. well, well, well

So, when was FEMA gutted and turned into a Nazi organization?

[Spinzonner]

2. Starting January 20, 2001

[punpirate]

3. Actually, a bit earlier than that...

... the big changes in FEMA occurred by secret presidential directives in the mid-part of the Reagan administration, under rules largely written by a fellow we all know--Oliver North.

Cheers.

[LTR]

4. Nominated!

No wonder they can't get anything done. Bush's oil mafia cronies have made it difficult for the government to pay for it's own gas.

I am truly appalled.

[Synnical]

5. Kick and From the diary:

FEMA called in a company that owns and operates a fleet of air boats, to aide with the search and recovery of citizens trying to survive the disaster and who are still in their homes, etc. A friend of mine (from Arkansas) is one of the owner/operators of an air boat in that fleet. He responded to FEMA's request and went down to assist, all at his own expense. When there,
he reported to a FEMA manager or supervisor who told him, and I quote: "We need your assistance and can use your help every day, there's a lot of folks who have not been found. But, you will have to pay for your own gasoline for your air boat."

The cost of gasoline for that air boat, for each day, amounts to approximately $550.00 per day, minimum. With the current gasoline crisis, it could cost considerably more, up to $600 - $700 per day.

This young man volunteered his time AND his boat to help - and was then told by FEMA that he would have to pay, additionally, out of his own pocket, all of the costs for his gasoline - to find the people who were in flooded homes across the entire flooded area in the City of New Orleans, where FEMA is assigned.

This young man doesn't have the money to donate his costs for gasoline for FEMA's project, so, guess where he is right now: yup, on the way back to Arkansas.

Has FEMA bungled this operation? Yes-sir-ee.

Can FEMA locate gasoline and have it trucked in, for these purposes? Yes-sir-ee.

The consequences for this short-sighted "decision" by a FEMA supervisor? More people dying, due to a major delay in locating them and rescuing them.

When will this "decision" be reviewed and questioned? Not till after many more victims have died.

[Eloriel]

7. Bungled? Maybe not.

I am waaaaaaaaaay out on a limb here ........
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=2052697&mesg_id=2052697

WHY is this being allowed to happen?
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=4561501&mesg_id=4561501

Randi: "I am starting to believe that this is what they wanted" n/t
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4555906#4556443


Ohhhhhhhhhhhhh, its Strategy of Tension, got it.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=4556189&mesg_id=4556189

Bush WANTS Katrina victims to die.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x2051070

Anyone know what happened to the Scanner Feed I had been listening to?
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4556646#4556813

Reporter on WWL-TV "Same amount of choppers in the air....
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4560552

THE BOY SCOUTS!! THE FREAKING BOY SCOUTS!!
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4558434

FEMA to Russia: Don't send aid!
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4557266
Link: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/08/31/katrina/main807164.shtml

LIES from FEMA!!!
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=4558159&mesg_id=4558159

Why did it seem like a lightbulb came on in the FEMA guy's head when
Anderson Cooper mentioned air lifting food.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4557950

what the aircraft carrier will really do
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4557762

[Clintmax]

8. This is absolutely amazing!

Thank your friend for us that he at least TRIED to go help! If I had a boat and went to help, I wouldn't have the money to spend $600 to $700 a DAY out of my own pocket! I'd be heading home too.

[Pallas180]

15. Send this to Keith Olberman- can your friend call Keith or any

of the news organiztions?

[Wilber_Stool]

6. I posted this a lot today and few have read it

Long but a great read.

"Over the past three-and-one-half years, FEMA has gone from being a model agency to being one where funds are being misspent, employee morale has fallen, and our nation's emergency management capability is being eroded," he wrote. "Our professional staff are being systematically replaced by politically connected novices and contractors."
http://www.bestofneworleans.com/dispatch/2004-09-28/cover_story.html

[Synnical]

10. I can relate

GD is tough these past few days. Threads are dying quickly even more so now that we're on Level 3 mode.

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

9. K&N

(Kicked & Nominated)

[SpiralHawk]

11. "Send cash, send cash, send cash" - George W. Bush

I have sent, but not by any pathway that will come near your cabal or its designs. It will go to the people.

[Hekate]

14. Tomorrow I go visit Direct Relief International and Red Cross with checks

George W. Bush should burn in Hell.

Direct Relief International (visit their website) sends medical aid and medicine, but not food. Nearly every nickel of what they receive is used in direct aid to those who need it.

Ever since Hurricane Camille my husband has had a soft spot for the Red Cross: he was in Biloxi as a member of the Air Force, ended up doing search and rescue work, and will always be grateful to the RC for the help he received.

But George W. Bush should burn in Hell.

Hekate

#Why won't the Chickenhawk cross the road?#

[alittlelark]

12. My taxes are going towards THIS RESCUE EFFORT.

What the hell is wrong w/ our Fed Gov't if they cannot deal w/ disaster relief w/o the poor and middle class (the ones that feel the pain of their compatriots, and are giving $25+++ to the relief efforts) shouldering the burden. They have shouldered enough of our Fed Gov't's BURDEN.


I am going to scream in my sauna now..... almost sound-proof.

[Usrename]

13. Great post

for the post :puke:

and for your username :puke: