Wait, CNN, what the? Oh, they must think that this story helps their cause.
So what is the point CNN, Trump should have declared martial law when he saw the hurricane coming toward PR and built an entire new network of roads and power grids in the days before it hit?
But you can be sure that the media is hoping people will think of FEMA and President Trump when the word “government” is bandied about in reference to the failures in Puerto Rico.
Puerto Rico has been a Democrat run fiefdom for decades. You reap what you sow. The communist MSM (i.e. ALL of the MSM) is trying to place blame on Trump for what their heroes have caused.
Time for the Federal Government to get out of the emergency management business.
This should really be the responsibility of state and local officials.
Elect idiots like Ray Nagin at your own risk.
The few years I lived in PR I found most everyone with whom I had contact were pro-American. However, there were a large number who were not. The “independistas” were only 1% of the population, but many were sympathizers and who went out of their way to make resident Americans feel uncomfortable. We had many military installations on the island with Roosevelt Roads Navy base being the largest. Millions of American dollars flowed into the island from the military and civilians on a US payroll - government or business. Over the years the Puerto Rican government and media made it easy for the US to pull out of the island.
The economy had always been weak, but without US dollars to prop it up it became much worse. The Puerto Ricans are the reason for their lousy economic condition, not the Americans and their money. P.S. - we loved living on the island.
However, why should we solve all the problems of the world.
You can lead a Puerto Rican to water, but you can’t make him drink.
However, why should we solve all the problems of the world.
You can lead a Puerto Rican to water, but you can’t make him drink.
Very similar to how Mayor “School Bus” Nagin of Chocolate city ran things.
Oh, so racist. Infrastructurally racist. Electrically racist.
I have a relative who does auditing at a paycheck cashing company. He has to go to PR about once a year to do their books and says its a joke. Apparently, their office there is just for a tax write off so the big wigs can have a party place. Says everything there is one big corruption.
PR has always been in the hurricane zone, and will always be in the hurricane zone. Its preposterous for any utility or major infrastructure to be built without that in mind.
Trump can’t solve that if the local government and utilities don’t solve that.
Its a very valuable piece of real estate, but that doesn’t make a hundred years of inadequate grid construction Trump’s responsibility.
I have said a number of times that we should have sent in the 82 nd Airborne and the Corps of Engineers to take over the government of Puerto Rico. Given the recent discovery of more relief supplies abandoned I still think so.
Absolutely. Only a person who has lived there and/or has family there comprehends the magnitude of the local govt’s inefficiency and corruption.
Saludos!
Their government failed long before the hurricane.