Huge math error in Katrina supply giveaway

Source: CNN

(CNN) -- Federal officials vastly overestimated the value of hurricane relief supplies given away earlier this year, the Federal Emergency Management Agency reported Monday.

The General Services Administration, which manages federal property, over-counted cases of toilet paper, plastic sporks and other cutlery, by mistakenly counting a single item as being worth as much as multiple items contained in a package of goods.

The original FEMA estimate of $85 million should have been $18.5 million, according to figures released by GSA and FEMA.

The household goods were supposed to go to people whose homes were destroyed by hurricanes Katrina and Rita in 2005. But the items were stored in warehouses in Louisiana, and then Fort Worth, Texas. A recent CNN investigative story exposed that those materials never made it to storm victims.

Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/07/21/katrina.supplies/index.html

For the definition of incompetence just look at All of the * appointees

LOL LOL :-)

victims received less to begin with? If so, why?

Wow, they sure do have lots of very convenient "math errors".

that if you dug deep enough, you would find that they paid an exorbitant amount to store the stuff. Dig further and you will find that the sweetheart deal for storage went to a friends of gwb contributor.

and it sure wasn't the people in New Orleans.

more repuke fuckers.

How can you possibly make this type of error?

So the NOLAns can sit there without food for months, and then turn on the radio and hear the residents of Weiner Nation yell and scream about how they are lazy leeches.

I wonder where the 66.5 million went?