Cape Karen
Wasn't there a song about that a while back - a long while back? I have had that song refrain running through my mind ever since watching the news last night, and seeing the 11 thousand (!) manufactured homes sitting in a muddy, no man's land in Hope, Arkansas. FEMA "dropped them off there," against the advice of the locals, who told them beforehand, that the ground was too 'boggy' there to hold them. Soon, they'll be renaming their little town, Hopeless, Arkansas.
FEMA now says they couldn't bring them to New Orlean's because it is in a flood plain. (Mr. Magoo could have told them that one!) So, now they are considering just destroying all of them. Perfectly good, brand new mobile homes - $380 million taxpayer dollars ~ to be destroyed?
Excuse me?
There are plenty of homeless people all around the USA who would be more than grateful to have a brand new mobile home to live in. If they can haul 11 thousand homes to a little southern mudhole ~ then they can damn well move them around the country, and give them to people who have no homes ~ rather than destroy them.
What are they thinking?
Those are OUR trailers - WE are paying for them - and they say they "belong to the Federal Government?" I think it would behoove us all to SCREAM about this foolishness, to each and every Senator, Congressman and Congresswoman we can reach on the internet.
Maybe we need to call on Ty Pennington and ask him to MOVE THOSE TRAILERS!
As the New Orlean's homeless move out of the motel rooms, and possibly into back alleys and cardboard boxes, can't we find some way to give them those mobile homes? Why not create a whole new town of 11 thousand residents, somewhere, if nothing else? Oprah did it - she built and created an entire new neighborhood for displaced people from the hurricane ravaged areas - so, maybe we need to call on her, as well as on Ty Pennington?
Obviously, the people of FEMA aren't functioning with any firing brain cells. That entire organization needs to be destroyed - not the homes.
They toss millions and billions of dollars around as if they were pennies from heaven - and those are OUR pennies! Every single dime comes out of our paychecks and our retirement accounts and our pocketbooks. It's so easy for them to spend our money with utter and complete disregard, and call it "federal spending;" and, for the last five years, our government officials have been doing a really great job of it.
I think it's time for us all to say, "The buck stops here! No more wasting our hard-earned money with your stupid, political inefficiencies. Enough is enough, already."
Flood plain, huh? Well, let's flood them with our outrage! Give those mobile homes to people who need them ~ no matter how you have to go about it!
And, get this . . . e-bay already has a page set-up and ready to go for selling the FEMA mobile homes. Going once . . .
to be continued . . .
Posted by Karen at February 15, 2006 11:24 AM