Some FEMA mobile homes near the Hope, Ark., airport gates have “scrap” painted in red on them, and that has some passing motorists—who are also taxpayers—seeing red.

“I counted 28 mobile homes lined up near the entrance. Trucks and escort vehicles were hauling them out. I stopped and the guard told me to leave,” said Pam Shelton after recently driving by the airport and seeing the scrap trailers. “The mobile homes looked like they were being wasted. It looked like hundreds and thousands of dollars being wasted. They looked like perfectly good mobile homes,” Armstrong said.