FEMA Cuts Off Evacuees

American Voices

November 22, 2005 | ISSUE 41•46

FEMA recently announced that, at the end of the month, they will to stop paying for hurricane evacuees' hotel rooms. What do you think?

Well, yeah. They've had, what, eight or nine weeks to build new houses?

Mark Osborne
Tinsmith
Those poor people have been through enough trauma without having to deal with the stigma of being kicked out of a hotel room—which I, as a former Van Halen groupie, can empathize with on a very deep level.

Sarah King
Purchasing Agent
Why is everyone focusing on the negatives instead of how quickly and efficiently FEMA evacuated everyone from their hotel rooms?

Jim Fessler
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