FEMA

FEMA continues to have problems housing Hurricane Katrina's victims. FEMA has just announced that it will pay for people to live in hotel or motel rooms for 30 days or until other housing can be located so that they can move from FEMA-provided formaldehyde-tainted trailers. This is just the latest of the problems for FEMA. A GAO report titled "Hurricanes Katrina and Rita Disaster Relief: Continued Finds of Fraud, Waste, and Abuse" published in December 2006 detailed that FEMA paid up to $1.4 billion for potentially fraudulent and improper claims. Can we all say "I've Been FEMA-ed"? (Chapter 7). Should we have thought that FEMA could handle a disaster of this magnitude?