FEMA, Your Tax Dollars Still Wasted

J.J. Jackson* | June 27, 2007

Filed Under Unconstitutional Acts, Unconstitutional Spending

The thing about government, especially socialist government, is that it never wants to cut back. It spends every dime it can and then when it acquires more than it needs never liquidates those assets but instead just uses them for other purposes.

Sen. Tim Johnson’s office announced Friday that American Indian tribes throughout the nation will get 2,000 so-called “FEMA trailers,” which are sitting idle in Arkansas and Texas.

The trailers are mostly three-bedroom mobile homes, Johnson spokesman Megan Smith said.

Johnson pushed through legislation last year that allows FEMA to distribute the homes to reservations, where housing shortages are often dire.

“I saw pictures of tens of thousands of empty mobile homes sitting unused in Hope, Ark., while South Dakota’s Indian tribes were struggling through a tough winter with inadequate housing,” Johnson said in a written statement. “There is still much that needs to be done to improve Indian housing, but this is a good step toward addressing this serious problem.”

Johnson, who is recovering from a brain hemorrhage, is working from home.

The 2,000 FEMA homes – excess from the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina — would solve a small part of a huge problem. About 90,000 American Indian families are without adequate housing, according to a 2003 study by the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights.

That’s right, all those excess trailers are now going to be used for purposes other than what they were originally acquired for. Those trailers certainly are not cheap either so the tax payers have once again been socked with the bill for providing services above and beyond what the Constitution dictates to people within the United States. Government enforced charity (i.e. theft) at its best. If they can’t use the stolen money one way, they’ll just invent a new want to use it.

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