14 October 2005

$11 Million a day spent on hotels for storm victims

From the New York Times:
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Straining to meet President Bush's mid-October deadline to clear out shelters, the federal government has moved hundreds of thousands of evacuees from Hurricane Katrina into hotel rooms at a cost of about $11 million a night, a strategy local officials and some members of Congress criticize as incoherent and wasteful.
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But compare this to the $177 million per day that we are spending in Iraq.

How would you rather spend your tax dollars?

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