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To: combjelly who wrote (324866)	2/7/2007 1:11:46 AM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1577883

Who knew astronauts wear diapers.........." Think about it. They are undergoing several Gs during launch and re-entry. It is bound to be messy. I guess but frankly, I don't think I want to think about it too much.

To: combjelly who wrote (324866)	2/7/2007 1:20:09 AM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1577883

FEMA incorrectly gave out $350 million of Katrina money to illegals and con artists, and now are trying to recover the money. The reason they give for making such a large mistake is that they waived their background checks. As part of a rentup of apts, the company I once worked for did background checks. With a name, SS # and birth date, you could have a background check that gave you a current address, court history, bad checks and credit worthiness. The company who provided the service took all of 20 minutes. I can't believe the BS they give us and expect us to swallow it. We are witnessing the end of an era. __________________________________________________________ Gulf residents wonder, where is all the money? Only half of the $110 billion appropriated has been spent By Lisa Myers, Christiana Arvetis & the NBC News Investigative Unit Updated: 4:53 p.m. PT Feb 6, 2007 Hurricane Katrina hammered Biloxi, Miss., devastating the town and its casinos. Today, most casinos have been rebuilt thanks to private money, but all of the businesses across the street are in disrepair. So is much of the town. In nearby Bay St. Louis, Katrina took out two critical bridges. The railroad bridge was destroyed by the storm, but it was quickly rebuilt with private money. But the companion bridge for cars and trucks — being rebuilt with federal money — is only 55 percent complete. "Without that, we're never going to recover," says Bay St. Louis Mayor Eddie Favre. He explains the bridge offers the community access to a ' whole other world ' on the other side of the Mississippi Bay. Visitors no longer have easy eastern access to the town, leaving many businesses without a reliable revenue stream. "We would like to think that everything would be OK 17 months after the fact, but it's not. It's almost like we were forgotten, " says Favre. So far, only about half the $110 billion allotted by the federal government has actually been spent. Officials at all levels complain that bureaucratic red tape has choked off the recovery. "It's kind of like a glacier melting waiting for those moneys to come down to the local level," says Aaron Broussard, president of Jefferson Parish in New Orleans . The first chokepoint: The Stafford Act, a federal requirement designed to reduce corruption, that state or local governments must provide 10 percent of the money for rebuilding projects. In Bay St. Louis alone, 25 key federally funded projects — (totaling nearly $70 million) including new water and sewer systems — are stuck because the city doesn't have the matching funds. Favre explains, "We don't have the money. We have borrowed every bit of money we could possibly borrow to the point now that legally we can't borrow anymore because of our debt limit capacities. We don't really know what we're going to do." Read more.......... msnbc.msn.com