Sandy Relief Slowed by Pork

>and equipment
you honestly have no idea how expensive replacing all that kit is. it's not the vehicle thats expensive, it's the fancy pomegranate in it. and that's not including replacing all the expensive computer equipment they lost to the storm.

I don't know how expensive it is. I can only conjecture how much it could be. And I can conjecture how relevant it is to being necessary for relief efforts. I can also only speculate to what extent I think that the report is faithful and not an attempt to pull extra funds. I don't know what they model their cars with in terms of surveillance, computers, tracking, ect. or how hard these areas were hit or what structures were damaged relatively to appropriately justify the cost. I am without a doubt speculating and I may be completely wrong, but in all approximation I do not believe the storm caused as much damage as is reported to merit the funds reported. Especially with respect to government agencies that do not seem to be related at all to Hurricane Relief and should have taken responsive precaution with respect to the storm.