At this point, you can't be even remotely surprised by this:
To the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the modular classrooms lined up next to the soon-to-be demolished former school show, as the billboard out front boasts, "Katrina Recovery in Progress."
But to critics, the 450 portable classrooms being installed across Mississippi are prime examples in their case against FEMA and its federal partner, the Army Corps of Engineers, for wasteful spending and favoritism in the $62 billion hurricane relief effort.
Provided by a politically connected Alaskan-owned business under a $40 million no-bid contract, the classrooms cost FEMA nearly $90,000 each, including transportation, according to contracting documents. That is double the wholesale price and nearly 60 percent higher than the price offered by two small Mississippi businesses dropped from the deal.
Shocked, shocked I am, that the GOP would be funneling massive profits to their political pals. Oh, fuck, no. I'm not shocked at all. And neither are you.
2 comments:
You seem to be under the delusion that I like Paul Martin. Please disabuse yourself of this notion.
But CC! You're a slobbering leftist commie! You have to defend all the Liberals and agree with Warren Kinsella all the time!!!1!
You have no choice but to support the war in Iraq. Start from that point and work backwards -- it's a lot easier that way. Just ask Dubya.
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