Ok, I am cheap But this is outrageous! I cant believe how much money these people just throw away! If they did it in such a way that made us happy it might be a different matter, but they seem to want to waste as much money as possible while make us all feel like criminals.

• For mandatory evacuations with responders risking their lives to encourage people to leave
• For FEMA press agents instead of competence
  
• For helicopters instead of boats
• For helicopters instead of buses (incredible that they even fronted this idea)
  
• For pumps that are turned off when they are most needed
  
• For $2,000 direct deposits for those who did evacuate
  
• For rental supplements of $2,383 and $1,100 administered almost randomly
• For hotel housing payments extending months without end
  
• For duplicating services but denying public assistance to those who paid for private insurance
  
• For impossible call centers and difficult websites
• For MRE's, water and ice distributed to individuals reentering the city but denied to those wanted to stay
• For a curfew that has outlived its usefulness
  
• For a Operation Blue Roof (detail below) and a debris removal program administered by the Corps of Engineers with multiple layers of contractors reaping outrageous markups while the people actually doing the work get the minimum
• CFE's disposal contracts in the millions for tens of  thousands of refrigerators
  
• Extending to the $30,000 house raising (not razing) assistance. While uncertainty about whether you are in the flood plain is guaranteed to last another year. Understanding the Increased Cost of Compliance benefit of the National Flood Insurance Program.
  
• For FEMA trailers that can't seem to get people out of the hotels
• For trailers instead of permanent housing
  
• For contracts to connected people
  

• And more than any of the above - for the levees we paid for and counted on that didn't protect, couldn't protect, and were known to be faulty