Katrina Pod People

[Omaha Steve]

http://blog.aflcio.org/2006/09/15/katrina-pod-people/

It wasn’t enough for the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to leave thousands of trailers rotting for months unused in acres of swampy fields while Louisiana residents remained homeless.

FEMA now has come up with pod houses—big white boxes resembling cargo containers on stilts—except not as large. And get this: The houses are an incentive to lure public school teachers back to New Orleans.

As reported on the AFT blog via the EdLog:

In an attempt to get the “best and the brightest teachers to return to New Orleans,” New Orleans is giving teachers…a large walk-in closet to live in.

Worse:

…officials brag that these storage pods—at a cost of $56,000 a pop—show their “commitment to helping displaced teachers find their way home and encouraging others around the country to take a chance and join us.”

First the city fires or forces into retirement some 4,500 public school teachers, mostly members of the United Teachers of New Orleans/AFT. Now, it’s creating pre-fab incentives to lure a new batch.

FULL story at link above.

[KamaAina]

1. Why don't they just build one of those Japanese mini-hotels?

You know, where the teachers would sleep in drawers stacked on top of one another.

:sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm:

[Kali]

2. 56 grand???!!! WTF?

Who makes 'em? A subsidiary of Halliburton?

[sam sarrha]

4. got to be Bu$h family.. that is big bucks for what looks like $1200 scrap

that is way over engineered.. way way way over engineered

[sam sarrha]

3. would be PERFECT if it Floated..!!! get a load of those big ass trusses!!

[sam sarrha]

5. google ...COGIM that is the name on the Pod

[bananas]

7. It's an Italian company

http://www.army-technology.com/contractors/field/cogim/
http://www.cogim.it/ing/chisiamo.html

[Momgonepostal]

6. That looks like a packing crate with windows nt

[Truthiness Inspector]

8. I can certainly see why

those pods would be enticing. :sarcasm:

You can find prefab houses that look normal for that amount. Who wants to live in a storage container?

[kineneb]

9. our double-wide manufactred house cost 56K

three years ago. Gee wiz, one would think that some nice manufactured homes (like ours) would be possible. But no... BushCo can't be bothered to help poor people!

[sam sarrha]

10. you didnt have to kick back $$$ to the GOP/Halliburton to get the job

it adds up