A Hurricane of Fraud?

Posted on June 18, 2006
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Via A hurricane of fraud? - Los Angeles Times:

FEMA did mismanage Katrina relief, but it’s wrong to blame victims for spending irresponsibly.

That’s right - blame the victim. The federal government is defrauded out of hundreds of millions of dollars and who do we blame? The federal government. The lack of oversight and accounting on Uncle Sam’s part is certainly appalling, but give me a break. If a bank decides not to put a full time security guard at the ready and that bank is subsequently robbed, do we then blame the bank’s owner? Maybe in the liberal utopia that the L.A. Times envisions where the only criminals are the victims.

But try to keep that knee from jerking …

Riiiight … the L.A. Times OpEd page is lecturing us not to allow a “knee-jerk” response. Ha.

It’s easy, and necessary, to criticize FEMA’s across-the-board incompetence in responding to the largest displacement of Americans since the Civil War.

Agreed.

But obsessing about the spending habits of refugees comes perilously close to blaming the victim.

Do you think the idiot author of this piece recognizes the delicious irony in his conclusion?

Comments

3 Responses to “A Hurricane of Fraud?”

  1. Jakester on August 31st, 2006 9:52 am

    Blame the feds means blaming the two fascist frauds we helped elect. You don’t have the guts, you right wing phony!

  2. Jakester on September 13th, 2006 4:46 pm

    Since FEMA is a federal agency, this is another Bush screw-up. But RWA’s like Severin will have to find some Democrats to blame

  3. Tsunamii on October 27th, 2006 10:40 am

    “Since FEMA is a federal agency, this is another Bush screw-up”

    I hope MCAS will help weed out idiots like you in the future. You logic is so pathetic its not worth continuing this..

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