Katrina: "Heartless" Representative deserves our thanks

I doubt anybody will allow the "I told you so", or to even give him credit, but James Sensenbrenner deserves a big fat apology from all the liberal lefties and thanks from the taxpayers for his opposition to the Katrina boondoggle.

Remember? Sensenbrenner stood in opposition to the Katrina packages, some for untold billions, but instead he suggested that it would be far better for the federal government to dole out the money piecemeal, forcing Congress to review progress along the way. Of course, the liberal freaks ignored the second part of that logic, and demagogued the issue by painting Sensenbrenner and other conservatives as heartless bastards who did not want to help the victims of this momentous tragedy.

So, in light of the new findings about how billions of the dollars have been totally wasted ... including an entire airfield full of trailer homes in the middle of nowhere, that are falling apart because despite the fact they were purchased with taxpayer money for housing in New Orleans, cannot actually be brought down there because it is ILLEGAL TO PUT UP TRAILER HOMES IN FLOOD PRONE AREAS!!! Yeah, your taxpayer dollars in the hands of bureaucrat morons (redundant), hard at work. We are tearing off Michael Brown's head because of his "slow response" in the heat of the battle (and can I remind you? Something that FEMA was NEVER designed for to begin with!), where is the outcry by the fanatics for the head/butt of whomever it is that ordered up the thousands of (now crumbling) trailers?

Sensenbrenner and other similarly minded conservatives knew that this was a second chapter of the disaster in the making. He knew that a bunch of wolves were outside the gates just drooling over the idea that the feds were going to drop huge buckets of money, and they could gobble it up indiscriminately.

Another lesson on why you don't give "the poor" money ...

I don't know if this was part of Sensenbrenner's thinking ... but we also see another example of how incredibly stupid it is to put cash money into the hands of irresponsible (at least as far as money goes) people. Hear this ... this goes to the heart of virtually all government programs ... these people are where they are because they cannot handle money, simply put ... giving them more money is just plain stupid. Almost on cue, the "victims" lived up to expectations: using the cards DIRECTLY for purchases of luxury items (designer purses, etc), porn shops, guns, contraceptives (well, maybe that isn't so bad since hopefully it keeps them from making more idiots like themselves), etc.

What is not even surprising anymore, as that these irresponsible goofs were not even smart enough to try to cover it up ... how hard would it have been to simply withdraw the cash and spend that anonymously?

Be clear on my message here ... I do not blame the poor for being poor ... some people are always going to be poor no matter what anybody does, because there are just plain foolish people out there who cannot handle money. What I am saying is that it is just plain stupid to give money without accountability to somebody in that situation, and downright criminal to do it with other peoples' money.

This should be a lesson the conservatives drive home again and again and again in the upcoming budget fights, and carry into the next elections.