100+ rescue tractor trailors paid $600 a day not to move

[donsu]

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2005-09-15-katrina-miscommunication_x.htm


Help is on the way, but it's unclear where

More than 100 tractor-trailers packed with water, ice and other critical hurricane-relief supplies have been sitting at an Air Force base in Montgomery, Ala., for nearly a week while the federal government pays $600 a day for each truck.

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"When somebody gets paid 600 bucks to sit and not burn fuel, that's a pretty good profit margin," said Alabama Food Services President Buck Hamilton, who is being paid by FEMA for about six truckloads of ice.

His shipments waited at similar truck staging areas in Mississippi. "Would you like to get paid $600 a day to sit and do nothing?" he said. "It's hard to criticize."

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"It is imperative that those most in need receive assistance and that no resources are wasted," Pence said Wednesday.
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there is a list of other FEMA problems.


Buck Hamilton thinks money comes first

[roseBudd]

1. oh the incompetence n/t

[donsu]

2. Kick

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