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Bush’s promise to empty out the shelters of Hurricane Katrina evacuees is costing American taxpayers over $11 million a day, and climbing.  In order to fulfill Bush’s rambling guarantee to save people from the shelters, the federal government is moving them to hotel/motel rooms.  The New York Times is reporting that the number of people in hotels has grown by 60% over the past two weeks raising the number of people to 600,000.

Officials in cities from Dallas to Atlanta, which are accommodating
thousands of evacuees, give credit for getting 90 percent of the
victims out of shelters. But they say they are frustrated by FEMA’s
record in helping place people in more adequate housing.

"Deplorable. Disappointing. Outrageous. That is how I feel about it,"
said the Atlanta mayor, Shirley Franklin, a Democrat, in a telephone
interview on Wednesday. "The federal response has just been
unacceptable. It is like talking to a brick wall."

Even
conservative housing experts have criticized the Bush administration’s
handling of the temporary housing response. "I am baffled," said Ronald
D. Utt, a former senior official at the Department of Housing and Urban
Development and Reagan administration aide who is now a senior fellow
at the Heritage Foundation, the conservative research organization.
"This is not incompetence. This is willful. That is the only way I can
explain it."

It’s almost like this administration is intentionally doing everything it can to fuck things up.  Anyone in their right mind would see the obvious folly in taking people out of shelters to put them up in hotels at the federal government’s expense.  I guess that’s the key, "in their right mind".  This administration has proven over and over that common sense plays absolutely no role in their decision making process.

The hotel initiative was originally supposed to last two weeks.  It’s now been extended twice by FEMA with officials saying that as of now "there is no end to the initiative". 

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