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Originally Posted by Don Dalton

All the problems that Katrina revealed was not all the Feds fault.My son was living in NO and he said the State and City Gov.was the biggest problem.It's sad that politicans ego's get in the way when a crisis happens.This time the Feds took the initiative and ran the show.

Didn't say all the problems were their fault, just that 90% of the allocated money got sucked up by their corrupt buddies and the guys actually doing the work got stiffed. For instance $150 a square was allocated for blue roof and the guys actually doing it got $15, and some of I know them never got paid at all. I know a lot of people who went there to work the clean up and it broke all of them. I was one.
N.O. mayor was a pud but that didn't shift any blame from a very obvious corruption of layers upon layers of sub contractors admistered by Fema and Army Corps of Engineers. I was working in debris removal and there was 5 layers of "contractors" before it even got to people who were in the field, then 3 more layers down to us. The money can't trickle that far. There was no program for people in east Texas who lost everything trying to make an honest buck helping clean up the mess.