Tuesday, November 22, 2005
FEMA Cuts Off Evacuees
FEMA recently announced that, at the end of the month, they will to stop paying for hurricane evacuees' hotel rooms. What do you think?
Mark Osborne,
Tinsmith
"Well, yeah. They've had, what, eight or nine weeks to build new houses?"
Sarah King,
Purchasing Agent
"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."
Jim Fessler,
Bailiff
"Why is everyone focusing on the negatives instead of how quickly and efficiently FEMA evacuated everyone from their hotel rooms?"
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