Thank you for explaining it for me. So all the hoopla about the Jones Act was just bull... the non-US ships couldn’t have made effective use of their cargo anyway. Sorry, but I’m kind of having a hard time with the fact(?) that none of the locals can help each other out. And do we not have choppers and troops to deliver to the outlying villages? It’s just that I see a whole bunch of complaints about the US gov, and very little humble-bragging ( which would be totally fine about now) from the locals about what they are doing to help themselves.
PR has chosen to misspend money on social programs and not fix infrastructure like electricity, city water, sewer and roads, etc. So now we can’t repair what was junk in first place, so it looks like as taxpayers we will get stuck rebuilding PR electric grid, etc.
PR is a US Territory... probably needs to be a state so federal and state taxes can help rebuild, and restore the island. It looks in pics like most of it is in rubble and needs more than Houston and Key West, and that is saying a lot!