Shocked, Shocked!

Shocked I say to find out that people scammed the government on hurricane assistance:

The government doled out as much as $1.4 billion in bogus assistance to victims of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, getting hoodwinked to pay for season football tickets, a tropical vacation and even a divorce lawyer, congressional investigators have found.

Prison inmates, a supposed victim who used a cemetery for a home address, and a person who spent 70 days at a Hawaiian hotel all were able to wrongly get taxpayer help, according to evidence. Agents from the Government Accountability Office even informed Congress that one man apparently used FEMA assistance money for a sex change operation.

This turned out to be a prodigious use of our tax dollars, indeed. One more reason to cut pork in government; not to cut out worthwhile relief projects, but because there is just not enough oversight to go around.