Wednesday, September 21, 2005
Katrina: FEMA spends $1 billion on ice that's going to just melt
Hey, here's an opportunity for another Bush photo-op!
The government will pay more than $4 for each of the thousands of five-pound bags of ice ordered for Gulf Coast hurricane-relief efforts that are now sitting unused in tractor-trailers in Gloucester and across the United States, say shipping and ice-making experts. [Continued at the new place]