Oh yeah. That one crocks my snorkel too. The government doesn't want to buy ice to keep diabetics' insulin cold after their homes were destroyed on the Gulf Coast--but they are willing to steal billions and billions of Tax Payers' dollars to help cover bankers' asses. Oh yeah, Mr. Corporate Monster needs a few hundred thousand to keep the payments going on his mansion--but is there anything for Joe Blow whose house got smashed by a hurricane? No. Stick him in an FEMA camp and charge him for it later!

We're being robbed. This freaking destruction of our financial system is part of a Fascist takeover of the US. They're nationalizing our banks, for Pete's sake! How fascist is that?!? Oh man. Don't get me started. Wait, you just did.

Huge parts of Houston still don't have running water and electricity!!! And the Feds are bailing out the freaking corporate banking goons?!?!?! No wonder they don't want the reality of the Gulf Coast horror to be in the news.

I doubt if 700 billion would restore the East Texas/West Louisiana Gulf Coast. The damage is that severe.

And handing 700 billion over to the corporate goons isn't going to bring back the value of the dollar or heal the economy.

Using cruise ships caused FEMA some angst after Hurricane Katrina in 2005. The agency was criticized for signing a six-month, $236-million deal with Carnival Cruise Lines for temporary housing on three ships. Rep. Henry Waxman of California, then the top Democrat on the House Government Reform Committee, said at the time that he had documents from 2002 showing that Carnival normally earned revenue of $150 million over six months.

Regal Empress owner James Verrillo told the Houston Chronicle he was offering a daily rate of $48 per person, plus $7 per meal. State officials say the lodging rate is less than FEMA is paying to house storm victims in hotels.