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By rba
01/13/2006 09:58:04 PM EST

Must be kismet. Both the Brookings Institution, and the Project on Government Oversight released reports on Katrina today:

Brookings Katrina Index: Tracking Variables of Post-Katrina Reconstruction [pdf]
http://www.brookings.edu/me tro/pubs/200512_katrinainde x.htm

The Brookings Institution has released a number of reports on the efforts to rebuild the areas affected by Hurricane Katrina over the past few months, and a number of them have garnered significant attention by policymakers and other interested parties. This 47-page report authored by Bruce Katz, Matt Fellowes, and Mia Mabanta, gives a detailed data-oriented summary of the recent progress that has occurred.

POGO: Investigations into Katrina Waste and Fraud Detailed.
http://www.pogo.org/p/x/200 5katrina.html

Katrina Contracting
The federal government's response to the Katrina Hurricane could cost up to $200 billion. . . no-bid contracts, outrageously high charges, questionable expenses. The result is that people who need help do not get it.  Please send us your suggestions and ideas for how we can improve it.

(With a tip to the Internet Scout project for the referral to Brookings).


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Anyone who follows the Republican Party or has read a Republican Party Platform, or has been able to read the tea leaves left in the cups by the Conservative Pundits knows by now that one of the aims of the Republicans is to decouple aid, assistance, and other forms of help from the government. They treat agencies such as FEMA as unnecessary government spending. If you are going to live in a zone prone to destruction, be prepared to suck it up when it happens. You asked for it by living there, you got what you asked for.

However, since FEMA is a fact, for now, why not use it to transfer billions from the poor and middle class into the hands of entreprenuers who are willing to fill out a few forms to milk the government. After all, isn't the main function of government to transfer wealth from the bottom to the top? The reaction to the disaster in New Orleans and the Gulf Coast is exactly what the Republicans wanted it to be: (Brownie was doing a heckuva job, just what he was hired to do - nothing) slow and full of opportunity for graft and corruption.

Why do you think they would even seriously ask the question whether we should rebuild. The dumb thing is with $14 billion and a few years of effort we could restore the bayous south of New Orleans to the protective barriers they once were. Republicans don't believe government should help anyone, it should only provide for the common defense (by outsourcing the military) and steal from the poor and middleclass to give to the weatlthy and those not ashamed to scam us.

by GeneG on 01/15/2006 08:33:06 AM EST

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