Given there are more than 300 million people in this country, 1 million body bags is less than one third of one percent of the population. Distributed among 50 states, that's only 20,000 per state. Just a few thousand per city.

In other words, FEMA is simply maintaining adequate supplies in each city in case ANY event occurs that might knock out a few thousand people.

The only thing that makes the purchase so "alarming" is the lack of putting it out to bid ?
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