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To: JohnM who wrote (11797)	2/13/2006 9:34:26 PM
From: KLP	Respond to of 541274

Disagree with this, John. My guess now is that whatever debate we have there will be two dominating threads. Unless the media stirs things up, trying to sell ads and whatever else (as in the Cheney dustup this AM with the press and McClellan).... I think there is ample room for discussion as to what to do. This shouldn't be a "one side versus the other side".... Bush already said that mistakes were made by his team, and therefore him. I'm sure there are plenty of phone transcripts, emails, etc. etc. etc. But I am interested to see what the 9-11 Commission had in mind with the marriage of all the groups under one umbrella. May have to go and dig out the entire report again. As you know, Bush wasn't for the merger, and said so. But to "get along" he signed it. Too bad he did. We ALL know that the Government moves like slugs, and in this case, they moved more rapidly than they have at other times. And that certainly isn't saying much, is it? I think one of the largest problems we haven't been clear in our expectations. For instance: Today, Feb 13, nearly 5 1/2 months after Katrina, we STILL have 12,000!!!!! families in Hotels, for pete's sake. Isn't there a cheaper way to find places for people? Did anyone call Jimmy Carter and Habitat for Humanity? Did we call the military to provide temporary housing in tents as there are in areas where the Military are serving around the world? There are approximately 175 days where people have needed housing. Why rent a hotel room? No one can cook in a hotel room. Let's say the room was $100/day for the family (special rates included)...$100 x 175 days is: $17,000 per family for the time SO FAR. Then multiply that times the number of families that are still in hotels....$17,500 x 12,000 comes out to be $21,000,000. And there is not one thing constructed from that money to date. Just hotel bills. Who is making those decisions and why? Isn't there some better program that wouldn't cost the tax payers so much money? That didn't include food, or any of the incidentals, or anything else, BTW.