So many of the people ... were underprivileged anyway, so this is working very well for them.
-- Barbara Bush
Well, except for the poison gas, Babs.
The latest bombshell from the cesspool of Republican incompetence
...wait, that could be any Federal agency!
known as the Federal Emergency Management Administration
That's better.
comes to us courtesy of the Washington Post. According to this article by Spencer Hsu, FEMA has known for over a year something in the trailers it provided for evacuees from the Gulf Coast was making those evacuees sick. Gulf Coast doctors have noticed a pattern of upper respiratory tract infections amoung Katrina survivors living in the trailers, according to current FEMA director R. David Paulison, infections that subside when the families move out of the trailers.