I’m glad that the FEMA debit cards are being used for the essentials such as food, clothing and temporary shelter.  Ummm … wait … what’s that you say?  There is evidence of Katrina “victims” using the card to pay for divorces, season tickets for a favorite football team and a tropical vacation?

Referring to the payment for divorce,

The $1,000 payment was just one example cited in an audit that concluded that up to $1.4 billion - perhaps as much as 16 percent of the billions of dollars in assistance expended after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita - was spent for bogus reasons.

The estimate is that there are around 1500 instances of fraud.  So, the scam is not limited to a few dishonest individuals.

This ridiculous spending goes back to the notion by some people that the government owes them something.  They are going to get what’s coming to them!  When you base your life on being a victim who needs compensation, then I suppose you feel justified.

Combine this story with the complaint by some “victims” that they were told to leave free hotel rooms after six months (six months! … you can find a job and some type of housing in a lot less time than that) and calls for even more taxpayer money are insulting.