CarbineCaleb
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Undoubtably, the devastation wrought by Katrina was great and the cost of rebuilding and restoration will be dear... but... some early proposals filtering out into the media sound like monumental opportunism.
No doubt this is a complex problem, because there are huge and immediate needs, and yet the faster that money is thrown out, the less oversight that we can expect to exercised to ensure that the spending is legitimate, the work is actually completed, and that the costs charged are reasonable.
Who should oversee the spending? Or should we just open the taps and setup some "hanging judges" to deal after the fact with the (inevitable it seems) graft, fraud and gouging?
No doubt this is a complex problem, because there are huge and immediate needs, and yet the faster that money is thrown out, the less oversight that we can expect to exercised to ensure that the spending is legitimate, the work is actually completed, and that the costs charged are reasonable.
Who should oversee the spending? Or should we just open the taps and setup some "hanging judges" to deal after the fact with the (inevitable it seems) graft, fraud and gouging?
