While the United states Armed Forces (private mercenaries) are stationed at 737 bases, in 130 nations around the world, defending “all freedom-loving people everywhere in the world,” Aaron Walker, Press Secretary to the Federal Emergency Management Agency, admits to the national media that FEMA has lost at least 13,400,000 civilian box lunches, more than double the six million reported earlier.  Also, another one million meals had to be discarded because they were stored in shipping containers at temperatures that exceeded 120 degrees.

       [restored 3/29/2024]

Subsequent Events:

7/31/2007                  3/28/2009

References:

FEMA Doubles Estimate of Food Lost – But They’re Not MREs
www.mreinfo.com/Forums/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=2447

Current U.s. National Debt:

$36,166,393,613,679

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