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<blockquote data-quote="moreluck" data-source="post: 1215502" data-attributes="member: 1246"><p>Obama claims they <a href="http://weaselzippers.us/2013/10/29/obama-on-sandy-anniversary-we-leave-nobody-behind/" target="_blank">left nobody behind after Hurricane Sandy?</a></p><p>Donna Van Zant is still waiting, as are thousands of others. </p><p>Via <a href="http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/10/29/21215983-superstorm-sandy-anniversary-one-year-later-thousands-still-not-home?lite" target="_blank">NBC:</a></p><p style="margin-left: 20px">BREEZY POINT, N.Y. — Thousands of New York and New Jersey residents displaced when Superstorm Sandy barreled ashore one year ago are still fighting with insurance companies, slogging through red tape and waiting for government aid – and many still aren’t home.</p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px">The storm, which made landfall in the U.S. last Oct. 29, killed an estimated 160 people here and dozens more in the Caribbean, according to the National Hurricane Center, and inflicted billions of dollars in damages, including some 366,000 structures in New York and New Jersey. </p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p><p>But guess who is in charge of distribution of the funds? You guessed it, CGI…</p><p></p><p>Via <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/10/28/obamacare-developer-cgi-federal-also-won-bid-to-help-with-federal-sandy-funds/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+foxnews/politics+(Internal+-+Politics+-+Text)" target="_blank">Fox:</a></p><p style="margin-left: 20px">The company that won a multi-million dollar contract from the Obama administration to help develop the problem-plagued HealthCare.gov site was also hired in May to help distribute $1.7 billion in federal Superstorm Sandy relief money.</p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px">The company — CGI Federal — was hired by New York housing officials to distribute $1.7 billion in Sandy disaster money, according to a document obtained by the fiscal conservative group FreedomWorks.</p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px">The company, a U.S. subsidiary of the Canada-based CGI Group, states CGI Federal was paid $49,000 for a short-term deal and will get $4.3 million through 2016, the document shows.</p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p><p>Coincidence, I’m sure…</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="moreluck, post: 1215502, member: 1246"] Obama claims they [URL="http://weaselzippers.us/2013/10/29/obama-on-sandy-anniversary-we-leave-nobody-behind/"]left nobody behind after Hurricane Sandy?[/URL] Donna Van Zant is still waiting, as are thousands of others. Via [URL="http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/10/29/21215983-superstorm-sandy-anniversary-one-year-later-thousands-still-not-home?lite"]NBC:[/URL] [INDENT]BREEZY POINT, N.Y. — Thousands of New York and New Jersey residents displaced when Superstorm Sandy barreled ashore one year ago are still fighting with insurance companies, slogging through red tape and waiting for government aid – and many still aren’t home. The storm, which made landfall in the U.S. last Oct. 29, killed an estimated 160 people here and dozens more in the Caribbean, according to the National Hurricane Center, and inflicted billions of dollars in damages, including some 366,000 structures in New York and New Jersey. [/INDENT]But guess who is in charge of distribution of the funds? You guessed it, CGI… Via [URL="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/10/28/obamacare-developer-cgi-federal-also-won-bid-to-help-with-federal-sandy-funds/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+foxnews/politics+(Internal+-+Politics+-+Text)"]Fox:[/URL] [INDENT]The company that won a multi-million dollar contract from the Obama administration to help develop the problem-plagued HealthCare.gov site was also hired in May to help distribute $1.7 billion in federal Superstorm Sandy relief money. The company — CGI Federal — was hired by New York housing officials to distribute $1.7 billion in Sandy disaster money, according to a document obtained by the fiscal conservative group FreedomWorks. The company, a U.S. subsidiary of the Canada-based CGI Group, states CGI Federal was paid $49,000 for a short-term deal and will get $4.3 million through 2016, the document shows. [/INDENT]Coincidence, I’m sure… [/QUOTE]
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