Your Tax Dollars in Action
by Jeff Davis
Remember the hurricane-related FEMA scandals of 2005, when it turned out that the head of the emergency agency on which millions of peoples’ lives might depend was a Bush political crony whose sole previous qualification for such a post was judging Arabian horse shows? A man so incompetent that even Dubya couldn’t gloss over his ineptitude and give him a presidential medal of freedom. Well, it looks like Mike Brown wasn’t the only dithering idiot at FEMA. A recent news article detailed some of the shenanigans the agency has gotten into over the past year.
According to the Florida Sun-Sentinel, FEMA seems to have been taken over in a coup d’etat by the cast of Sesame Street, or possibly a deranged cruise ship entertainment director. An article in the Sun Sentinel reports “At the Pinitos Learning Center in Boca Raton, disaster workers, dressed as Windy Biggie and Sunny, teach 30 preschoolers a song about how the wind is good, even during a hurricane…This is FEMA tax money at work. It’s also paying for Hurricane Bingo, puppet shows, ’salsa for seniors,’ and yoga on the beach.”
I’m sure the yoga does wonders for tired Federal bureaucrats. (more…)