Posted on 08/09/2018 6:29:00 AM PDT by SMGFan
The Puerto Rican government acknowledged in a new report in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria that more than 1,400 people likely died on the island because of the storm, roughly 20 times the previous number that had been provided.
The government on Thursday published a report titled "Transformation and Innovation in the Wake of Devastation," which outlines the island's response to the storm and what it intends to do to strengthen its economy and infrastructure moving forward. It also includes new estimates on the death toll.
“Although the official death count from the Puerto Rico Department of Public Safety was initially 64, the toll appears to be much higher,” the report stated.
“According to initial reports, 64 lives were lost. That estimate was later revised to 1,427," it added in a separate section.
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
So which came first, the fake news or the fake numbers?
Whatever it takes to bring in the $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$.
1400 people “likely” died? You mean the fakery continues?
There ya go. Look for the “likely” number to increase on a regular basis. Roughly coinciding with Congress’s continuing resolutions. Or, what used to be known as budgets.
[1400 people “likely” died?]
Did they check the voter rolls in FLORIDA before reaching their conclusion?
Yes, they interviewed them personally.
“likely” “estimate” “appears”
Fake news.
5.56mm
Show me the death certificates.
Maybe they are counting everyone who passed on in the four weeks after the hurricane....from old-age, car accidents, etc.
This is about katrina-ing Trump and sucking up more federal money.
It only took them 10 months to find this out ? D’oh
But we're pretty sure that the 2.70 rise in temperature a hundred years from now is going to really hurt us.
We let them manage their own affairs and they were spendthrift. As typical for the Left spending has a moral adpect because of the “good” that government does and that means living within your means is simply not an option ... it’s mean and uncaring.
But it’s better to be a little uncaring than insolvent.
People who look for hand outs right where they are stay right where they are rarely prosper, their needs never end.
This is about katrina-ing Trump and sucking up more federal money.
Exactly. The media were working hard last year, to make Hurricane Maria into Trump’s Katrina. But it didn’t take.
They are praying, to the extend that irreligious liberal types pray, that there is a severe natural disaster they can somehow blame on Trump. They want to rerun the Bush Katrina playbook, and tried last year to do that with Hurricane Maria.
We let them manage their own affairs and they were spendthrift.
I heard that Puerto Rico was something like $80 billion in debt, and then Hurricane Maria hit, which magnified all their problems. That $80 billion is still out there, and I’m sure some would like a federal bailout.
Back in the 1980’s I did flood damage assessment for the Red Cross here in south Florida. At the time an elderly lady of 86 yr. was on staff. She was born in Miami and endured the hurricane of September 1926.
She stated even though the ‘official’ death count was in the hundreds the government was lying through their collective teeth back then. She witnessed bonfires everywhere for the purpose of disposing of thousands of bodies.
Apparently officialdom desired nobody to interfere with the ongoing settlement of Florida and subsequent land deals.
Libs were trying to claim that nearly 5,000 people died from the hurricane in order to try and make Trump look bad for not doing enough.
see https://www.snopes.com/news/2018/06/04/death-toll-hurricane-maria-puerto-rico/
A Harvard University study published in the New England Journal of Medicine estimates that many as 4,645 Puerto Ricans died as a result of Hurricane Maria in September 2017, a death toll 73 times higher than the official estimate of 64.
The only way to cut off the money is to stop people from being willing to buy the bonds. A bailout just won’t do that.
I imagine they can find the “deceased” people living in the U.S. collecting welfare. Check the welfare rolls here. They’re not dead.
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