{"id":399,"date":"2005-09-08T03:57:51","date_gmt":"2005-09-08T10:57:51","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=399"},"modified":"2005-09-08T03:59:15","modified_gmt":"2005-09-08T10:59:15","slug":"astounding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/astounding\/","title":{"rendered":"Astounding"},"content":{"rendered":"

The combined intelligence of media and government is astounding<\/p>\n

From the article<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Families displaced by Hurricane Katrina will receive debit cards good for $2,000 to spend on clothing and other immediate needs, the Bush administration said yesterday.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

and then the kicker:<\/p>\n

The administration estimated the cost of the program for 320,000 households at $640 million.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Holy crap! How did they come up with that number?<\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

In other sad news (and also from the article):<\/p>\n

President Bush sent to Congress a request for $51.8 billion in additional hurricane relief, raising Katrina’s cost to the federal government to $62.3 billion so far, a record for domestic disaster relief. Congress is likely to approve the White House request today.<\/p>\n

White House budget director Joshua Bolten made it clear: “We will in fact need substantially more,” estimating the current sum would cover expenses for “a few weeks.”<\/p>\n

Last week, FEMA was spending about $500 million a day, an unprecedented rate, House Appropriations Committee aides said. But over the weekend, Bolten said, that “burn rate” soared to more than $2 billion a day as FEMA began signing contracts for the construction of temporary housing.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

$2 billion a day! Holieeee…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The combined intelligence of media and government is astounding From the article: Families displaced by Hurricane Katrina will receive debit cards good for $2,000 to spend on clothing and other immediate needs, the Bush administration said yesterday. and then the kicker: The administration estimated the cost of the program for 320,000 households at $640 million. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[16,7],"class_list":["post-399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-everything","tag-news","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}