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Feb 6 2009
08:12 am

The company that packaged the meals, Red Cloud Foods Inc., sent a Jan. 19 memo to the arm of the Department of Defense responsible for getting them to the Federal Emergency Management Agency. But FEMA said it didn't learn of the recall until Wednesday night, more than two weeks later.

What can you say? Is our government incompetent?

Karen's picture

It's just a packet of PB

It's just a packet of PB inside the box - you can toss it aside and the rest of the MRE is "fine" (or as fine as they get). Rather than tossing aside a large amount of food that is perfectly safe, one person could strip the entire two vans of MRE's in less than a day (or those who receive them could do it in a few seconds, as they are handed out).

Konabutter's picture

:l

Sure, the peanut butter can be tossed. That's not the point.

The point is that FEMA is still staffed with Bush appointees and there's no such thing as a Bush appointee who's worth a baboon's bright blue ass.

Barack had better get out the enema bag because FEMA is a colossal failure and needs cleansing. Once competent personnel are in place we won't see this tradition of failure that has been installed in our gov't over the last eight years.

chip brandstetter's picture

ky storm

Wow. Maybe you and Obama could get your heads out of Oprah's ass long enough to acknowledge the disaster here and wrap your little enlightened dinosaur brains around the fact that people here are without power and water. At least Bush took a minute and flew over Katrina. Obama's too busy kissing Matt Lauer's ass about his Blackberry. You probably have the weekly menu from the Sidwell school stuck on your fridge. Get off your sanctimonious crack and go help your neighbor. Jackass.

redmondkr's picture

You know there were actually

You know there were actually some folks in KY Tuckey giving FEMA some pretty good press until they found out about the salmonella.


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Konatucky's picture

:)

Heh, now you know what a few extra hand warmers will buy.

:P

R. Neal's picture

FEMA needs to go back to

FEMA needs to go back to being a cabinet post and Obama should do away with Homeland Security.

Konaland Security's picture

Yep....

Altogether.

That system of using DHS as a hub for all federal agencies has flat failed as we all knew it would.

Kanye's picture

Barack Obama doesn't care

Barack Obama doesn't care about white people.

Konacasian's picture

>.<

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Pamela Treacy's picture

I don't care if they are hired under Bush or Obama

I don't care if they are hired under Bush or Obama -- I never count on the government to do a good job.

I have never been more disappointed in the politics of politics. We just keep getting in deeper. Taking away more control of our lives and our money.

Obama could be the best person in the world, but if the congress is full of power hunger politicians who only care about getting re-elected and lining their own pockets-- Obama will not be able to cut back on waste as he wants.

Many want the stimulus bill approved -- but have you really looked at all the waste being tied to the bill.

This could have been real simple. Have those under a certain income level stop paying taxes for six months and maybe a second bracket have their taxes cut in half. This would be real money going into the economy rather than paper money that is only going to cause inflation.

I read one post somewhere that the they should have just given every household a million dollars. That would stimulate the economy. Maybe a million isn't the right number, but the problem with this is --it is paper money and it is not real so it will cause inflation. This suggest reminded me of the post on VinMilla (sp?) where we have could have paid less putting the homeless up at a hotel.

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