Within days, three Carnival ships steamed to the Gulf Coast. It wasnt a happy ending: The ships sat half empty. Use of them turned out to be rather expensive, and lawmakers used the contract as an example of post-Katrina waste. “This boondoggle contract, which comes to an end this week, has cost federal taxpayers an enormous amount to provide temporary six-month housing aboard Carnivals ships,” Representative Henry Waxman, a California Democrat, wrote in a February 2006 letter to Jeb Bush.----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------This is so typical of the Bush Family using government Dollars,,,, to help a family friend make money ---who then returns the favor by contributing to a Bush Family Re -election campaign...Remember who his brother is..
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