According to my Public Finance and Public Policy book, the government spent $100 million on ice in the relief efforts for Hurricane Katrina... Interestingly, 60% of that ice never made it anywhere New Orleans, and some of it even ended up in Maine, which, in case you're not good at geography, is about 1700 miles away from New Orleans.
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Map thanks to Google. (I'm not sure what their copyright and citation deal-i-os are, and I definitely want to avoid this plagiarism thing.)
Sunday, January 25, 2009
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