At a cost of over $236 million, FEMA has contracted the services of three Carnival cruise ships to help house displaced evacuees from Katrina. Yet, Greece offered two of their cruise ships for service for FREE. And to this day, all three ships sit nearly empty costing us taxpayers $2-3 million per day!
Sens. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., and Barack Obama, D-Ill are asking for an investigation on FEMA's action. They are also calling for a chief finance officer to oversee the spending related to Katrina.
It makes us wonder what other wasteful spending of our taxpayer's money that FEMA and other government agencies is occurring during the recovery period of Katrina and Rita.