Friday, October 07, 2005

Public Losing Confidence on Storm Spending - Yahoo! News

Public Losing Confidence on Storm Spending - Yahoo! News: "Public Losing Confidence on Storm Spending

By WILL LESTER, Associated Press Writer Fri Oct 7, 4:23 AM ET

WASHINGTON - Americans are losing confidence that the federal government will wisely spend billions of dollars set aside for recovery from Hurricane Katrina, an AP-Ipsos poll found.
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Just three weeks ago, the public was evenly split on whether the money would be spent wisely, according to the poll. Now, six in 10 say they are not confident the money will be well spent.

Federal officials were left red-faced after scuttling a debit-card plan almost as soon as they announced it, few hurricane victims moved into cruise ships leased off the Gulf Coast at considerable cost and Congress pushed to reverse many no-bid government contracts."

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