Wednesday, December 13, 2006
Government - In Action
Perhaps there is some truth to the theory that people who can't qualify for a job elsewhere, end up working for the government...
From the The Waterbury Connecticut Republican American Newspaper editorial page:
"Since the last audit, the GAO said, FEMA has wasted tens of millions more, including $17 million in rental payments to evacuees already living in free FEMA trailers, $20 million to double-dippers claiming damage to the same property from Katrina and Rita, and $3 million to more than 500 foreign students who were ineligible for aid. On top of that, taxpayers have forked over untold millions to the Justice Department for its Hurricane Katrina Fraud Task Force, which was assembled days after the disaster as the government braced for a tsunami of bogus aid claims. Though nearly 1 million cases of fraud have been documented, to date, charges have been brought against only a few hundred people."
