Puerto Rico is bankrupt

[DMC]

Wondering who pays boots to spam message boards with extreme shit. Nobody does that much shit posting for fun.

[boutons_deux]

Leaked Bombshell Memo Reveals Trump’s PR Effort To Spin Puerto Rico Disaster

A leaked internal memo from President Trump's homeland security adviser Tom Bossert sent his West Wing colleagues

dictates daily "themes" for how to spin Puerto Rico response, including

the "bright future" that lies ahead,

with high hopes that "planned hits, tweets, tv bookings and other work will limit the need for reactionary :lol efforts."

The storm caused these problems, not our response to it. We have pushed about as much stuff and people through a tiny hole in as short a timeframe as possible.”A lot to unpack here, even in just this short bit I’ve included.

1. No, it’s not the “storm’s fault”; if that were true, we wouldn’t have been able to help Texas and Florida, let alone Haiti. We quickly got help to Haiti (http://abcnews.go.com/WN/HaitiEarthquake/haiti-earthquake-obama-united-states-rushes-relief-aid/story?id=9552178) due to President Obama and his team prioritizing it.

2. While all politicians and administrations seek to control the narrative and spin reality, this is leaning more toward propaganda and is offensive in the way the concern seems to be on the perception of how they are doing, rather than the Puerto Ricans and their worried families and friends.

3. President Trump waited for days to lift the Jones Act for Puerto Rico, which had been lifted for Texas, Florida, and under President Obama, hurricane Sandy.

4. More than half of Puerto Rico’s 3.4 million people still lack access to drinking water 11 days after Hurricane Maria hit and 95 percent remain without power, according to the U.S. Defense Department.

5. In the rural towns of Salinas and Fajardo, the vast majority of locals reported having no cell service on Friday and Saturday according to Reuters, and said they had not seen local or federal officials in the area.

6. The memo seems aimed at not just altering public perception, but also attempting to mitigate the President’s out of control twitter rants.

7. The bright future of Puerto Rico? Some Puerto Ricans are expected to be without power for months, according to reporting by Nick Brown and Robin Respaut for Reuters. The rebuidling will take years.

http://www.politicususa.com/2017/10/01/leaked-internal-memo-dictates-daily-themes-spin-puerto-rico-response.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+politicususa%2FfJAl+%28Politi cus+USA+%29 (http://www.politicususa.com/2017/10/01/leaked-internal-memo-dictates-daily-themes-spin-puerto-rico-response.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+politicususa%2FfJAl+%28Politi cus+USA+%29)

"reactionary" :lol asshole doesn't know the meaning of the word, typical Repug dumbfuck

[boutons_deux]

Pentagon: More than half of Puerto Ricans without access to drinking water

The number of Puerto Ricans without access to drinking water has risen sharply, the Defense Department announced on Saturday.

Fifty-five percent of the population did not have access to drinking water, the Pentagon said in a Saturday press release (https://www.defense.gov/News/Article/Article/1330501/dod-accelerates-hurricane-relief-response-efforts-in-puerto-rico/).

The military said last week that 44 percent of the island did not have access to drinking water.

A Navy hospital ship is expected to reach the island on Wednesday, the Pentagon said.

“Forty-five percent of customers have access to drinking water.

Ninety-five percent of customers remain without power;

power has been restored to San Juan airport and marine terminals,”

Trump and his cabinet members have insisted repeatedly that the

federal effort to bring relief to the island is going well and

“getting great reviews.”

They have called people who disagree with them “politically motivated ingrates” (https://www.rawstory.com/2017/10/politically-motivated-ingratestrump-continues-attack-on-puerto-rican-leaders-dealing-with-hurricane-disaster/) and said that

Puerto Ricans are too lazy to help themselves.

many are seeing more than a little racism (https://www.rawstory.com/2017/10/pure-malice-joy-reid-panel-says-it-out-loud-trumps-racist-neglect-of-puerto-rico-is-intentional/) in the administration’s response to the devastation from Hurricane Maria.

http://thehill.com/latino/353347-pentagon-55-percent-of-puerto-ricans-have-no-access-to-drinking-water

[djohn2oo8]

Trump tards unusually absent from this thread.

[DMC]

CD getting his shit pushed in by Ducks :lol

[djohn2oo8]

CD getting his shit pushed in by Ducks :lol

It doesn't get much lower than a ducks nut slurper.

[DMC]

It doesn't get much lower than a ducks nut slurper.

Except for a Chumpdumper semen shielder.

[djohn2oo8]

Except for a Chumpdumper semen shielder.
You even have the same replies as ducks. I would say boy how the mighty have fallen but you were never mighty in the first place. Even with those hands.

[DMC]

You even have the same replies as ducks. I would say boy how the mighty have fallen but you were never mighty in the first place. Even with those hands.

Losing to Trump really fucked yall up.

[djohn2oo8]

Losing to Trump really fucked yall up.

Again. Another ducks style reply. At least put some effort into your posts. You need to set the bar higher than wanting to be like ducks.

[Pavlov]

:lol DMC trying to make firends.

[ducks]

Puerto Rican CEO: Local government 'corrupt' and 'totally inexperienced' in Maria cleanup

[ducks]

Neighboring mayor praises Trump, says San Juan mayor playing 'politics,' AWOL at meetings

[boutons_deux]

FEMA head gets shredded for calling Maria response ‘most logistically challenging event’ in US history

excused (https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2017/10/01/twitter-takes-fema-chief-over-biggest-logistics-challenge-history-claim/721353001/#) the Trump administration’s lead-footed response to Hurricane Maria by calling it “the most logistically challenging event in U.S. history.”

However, reports (https://www.rawstory.com/2017/10/pure-malice-joy-reid-panel-says-it-out-loud-trumps-racist-neglect-of-puerto-rico-is-intentional/) from Puerto Rican officials and even from Army Lt. Gen. Jeff Buchanan — the administration’s highest appointed official on the ground — have called the federal response haphazard and bureaucratically snarled.

Sick of excuses and blame-shifting (https://www.rawstory.com/2017/10/busted-leaked-bossert-memo-reveals-white-house-strategy-to-duck-blame-for-maria-mess/) from President Donald Trump and his administration, Twitter uses vented on Long and his statement.


Ted Lieu (https://twitter.com/tedlieu)
(https://twitter.com/tedlieu)✔@tedlieu (https://twitter.com/tedlieu)

Dear @FEMA_Brock (https://twitter.com/FEMA_Brock): Um, remember WWII? Berlin Airlift? Desert Storm? Sending a man to the moon? WE ARE A SUPERPOWER. ACT LIKE IT. https://twitter.com/ChadPergram/status/914473580091592706 … (https://t.co/PQFTWBnT1U)
12:11 PM - Oct 1, 2017 (https://twitter.com/tedlieu/status/914538340170448896)



West Wing Reports (https://twitter.com/WestWingReport)
(https://twitter.com/WestWingReport)✔@WestWingReport (https://twitter.com/WestWingReport)

To say that @FEMA_Brock (https://twitter.com/FEMA_Brock)'s comment is historically ignorant is a wild understatement; shows he knows no American history https://twitter.com/ChadPergram/status/914473580091592706 … (https://t.co/8kGAY6gViJ)


For Fox' Sake @KevinGFox (https://twitter.com/KevinGFox)

Brock Long was appointed by President Donald Trump in April 2017 and is as corrupt a kiss ass as the rest. Fuck him. Do the job. https://twitter.com/thehill/status/914666513994584064 … (https://t.co/Px06paO3Uv)


craigarmstrong @craigarmstrong (https://twitter.com/craigarmstrong)

Replying to @ChadPergram (https://twitter.com/_/status/914473580091592706)
Perhaps Brock Long is simply an idiot


Radio Justice https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/72x72/1f4fb.pnghttps://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/72x72/1f399.png @justiceputnam (https://twitter.com/justiceputnam)

Brock Long is the most logistically challenged FEMA administrator the US has ever seen. https://twitter.com/ChadPergram/status/914473580091592706 … (https://t.co/sHDZUKkpbN)


West Wing Reports (https://twitter.com/WestWingReport)
(https://twitter.com/WestWingReport)✔@WestWingReport (https://twitter.com/WestWingReport)

To say that @FEMA_Brock (https://twitter.com/FEMA_Brock)'s comment is historically ignorant is a wild understatement; shows he knows no American history https://twitter.com/ChadPergram/status/914473580091592706 … (https://t.co/8kGAY6gViJ)


https://www.rawstory.com/2017/10/fema-head-gets-shredded-for-calling-maria-response-most-logistically-challenging-event-in-us-history/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story% 29


"Heckuva job, Brockie"

Repug MISgovernance!

[ducks]

Figures. Trump Bashing San Juan Mayor Was Big Hillary Clinton Supporter in 2016
For the record… Mayor Carmen Yulin Cruz has refused to visit the FEMA headquarters after several invitations and is not participating in ANY FEMA meetings.


Geraldo Rivera
✔ ‎@GeraldoRivera

#SanJuanMayor says residents are "dying," & somehow realDonaldTrump is to blame. I'm here. Who is dying? Why? Where? Let me help save them.

[ducks]

https://www.stripes.com/news/3-star-general-tapped-to-lead-hurricane-response-in-puerto-rico-1.490185#.WdGvWsaWyM8

[boutons_deux]

Trash/Repugs had plenty of time as Maria approached PR and USVI to increase stocks of critical items, and generators.

I've haven't seen that they did any of that.

Maria is Trash/Brock/Repug Katrina, all over again.

[boutons_deux]

J Oliver

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmB1v3QE0oQ

[ducks]

Who

[ducks]

Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-IL) and San Juan Mayor Carmen Yulin Cruz are sympathetic to terrorist Puerto Rico separatist Oscar Lopez Rivera.

Gutierrez published the following photograph featuring himself and Rivera on his Congressional profile page:


luis_gutierrez_oscar_rivera.jpg

[DarrinS]

I like how she took the time to make "Help us. We're dying!" t-shirt.

[ducks]

Been faster to paint it on skin then on shirt like most liberals

[boutons_deux]

Hospital Morgues Are At Capacity But Fox News Says Nobody's Dying In Puerto Rico (https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/10/1/1703161/-Hospital-Morgues-Are-At-Capacity-But-Fox-News-Says-Nobody-s-Dying-In-Puerto-Rico)

https://images.dailykos.com/images/455559/story_image/Trump_Golf_Puerto-Rico.PNG?1506818146

“The results that we've had with respect to loss of life, people can't believe how successful that has been, relatively speaking,” the truth is that there are dozens confirmed dead and that number could rise to hundreds. Miami Herald: (http://www.miamiherald.com/news/weather/hurricane/article175955031.html)


On Wednesday, the Puerto Rico government, maintained that the official number of deaths as a result of the catastrophe was 16. But

the Center for Investigative Journalism (CPI, for its initials in Spanish) has confirmed that there are dozens of hurricane-related deaths and the number could rise to the hundreds.

The dead are at the hospital morgues, which are at capacity and in remote places where the government has yet to go.

In many cases, families are unaware of the deaths. The government’s Demographic Registry is responsible for certifying deaths so bodies can be removed by funeral homes, many of which are not operating because of lack of resources. The agency began to certify some of the dead Monday, Health Secretary Rafael Rodríguez-Mercado confirmed in an interview.

Public Safety Secretary Héctor Pesquera told the CPI that the names of the dead because of the hurricane will not be revealed until relatives can be notified. The continuing lack of communication has kept many people from knowing the whereabouts of their families. Since the storm’s immediate aftermath, many people have gone daily to radio stations so the on-air personalities can announce the names of family members with whom they have been unable to communicate.


That is the truth of the situation.

Now adding insult to injury is Fox News which aired a piece wherein San Juan Mayor Carmen Yulin Cruz was depicted as “a hard left wing Democratic mayor...a very critical mayor.” [Note: Officially she’s not even registered in the party.]

In a moment of totally unintentional humor, Mayor Cruz told Geraldo Rivera that, “The president needs to get the information that he needs to get. He apparently hasn’t been getting it, he hasn’t been watching the news.”

No, he hasn’t, Mayor, he’s been watching Fox. :lol

Then Geraldo actually had the hubris to say that he didn’t see anybody dying, with the inference of “so what’s the big deal?”

Mayor Cruz responded as though speaking to a child, “Dying is a continuum, right? If you don’t get fed for seven, eight days and you’re a child, you are dying. If you have 11 people — like we took out of a nursing home — severely dehydrated, you are dying.”

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/10/1/1703161/-Hospital-Morgues-Are-At-Capacity-But-Fox-News-Says-Nobody-s-Dying-In-Puerto-Rico

[boutons_deux]

http://www.nationalmemo.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/danzcolorplus8465-668x501.jpg

[tlongII]

So the hurricane hitting Puerto Rico is Trump’s fault? Got it.

[Spurminator]

So the hurricane hitting Puerto Rico is Trump’s fault? Got it.

Yes, this is exactly what everyone is saying.

[Blake]

So the hurricane hitting Puerto Rico is Trump’s fault? Got it.

You're not that dense

[ducks]

Brown said Cruz needed to listen to current FEMA director Brock Long and start helping with the cleanup and recovery instead of complaining from the outside.

"We need her to plug herself into the incident command structure because you don't know what mayors need unless they feed that into the governor, who then feeds it into FEMA that can then spread it out to DOD or the Department of Transportation or whomever," Brown said. "So as long as she's out on the docks just complaining about stuff, she's not only doing a disservice to her constituents, she's actually keeping that aid from getting to them quickly."

[ducks]

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5Uc1pPsKt_s

[ducks]

http://notliberal.com/puerto-rico-cop-officials-withholding-aid/
In English what was said
She is almost as bad as Clinton

[ducks]

As of Sunday night, 843 lives have been “saved and assisted,” and more than 240 Puerto Rican patients have been seen by Health and Human Services medical teams, officials said.

[Pavlov]

As of Sunday night, 843 lives have been “saved and assisted,” and more than 240 Puerto Rican patients have been seen by Health and Human Services medical teams, officials said.Have they updated the death count yet, ducks?

[ducks]

You look

[ducks]

FEMA: More Than 12,200 Federal Staff on Ground in P2,200 more people then yesterday

[Pavlov]

You lookI did. Couldn't see an update in 5 days.

You got anything?

[DarrinS]

Tons of supplies and personnel.

I'm glad this isn't politicized.

"Help us. We're dying!" t-shirt.

[Pavlov]

Darrin has an angle!

I'm glad he never politicizes anything!

[DarrinS]

Darrin has an angle!

I'm glad he never politicizes anything!



You're politically neutral. Obvious to all.

[Pavlov]

You're politically neutral. Obvious to all.Just looking for an updated death count.

Seen one?

[DarrinS]

Just looking for an updated death count.

Seen one?


Can't help the dead, tbh. Is the death count > Vegas?

[Pavlov]

Can't help the dead, tbh. Is the death count > Vegas?Who can tell? They don't update it.

Do you think they are in competition somehow?

I don't. I just want to know. Was a pretty bad storm, you know?

[DarrinS]

Who can tell? They don't update it.

Do you think they are in competition?

No. Should Trump go there and personally count the bodies? I don't even know what your point is.

[Pavlov]

No. Should Trump go there and personally count the bodies?One of the stupidest straw men you ever made.
I don't even know what your point is.My point is the death toll hasn't been updated in five days, genius.

[Pavlov]

I'll allow the situation is so fucked up that the deaths aren't made official in a lot of areas yet; I just don't think people should assume it's going to stay at 16.

[DarrinS]

I'll allow the situation is so fucked up that the deaths aren't made official in a lot of areas yet; I just don't think people should assume it's going to stay at 16.

Harvey had over 80.

[Pavlov]

Harvey had over 80.Why do you want to make it a contest, Darrin?

[DarrinS]

Why do you want to make it a contest, Darrin?

You're not political. At all.

[Pavlov]

You're not political. At all.You didn't answer the question, Darrin.

Why do you want to make it a contest, Darrin?

[DarrinS]

You didn't answer the question, Darrin.

Why do you want to make it a contest, Darrin?


No contest, tbh

[Pavlov]

No contest, tbhThen why are you bringing up the death tolls in Vegas and Harvey, Darrin?

Why?

[DarrinS]

Then why are you bringing up the death tolls in Vegas and Harvey, Darrin?

Why?


Why is the mayor of PR saying they're dying? Not political at all.

[Pavlov]

No contest, tbhOh, you're just actively trying to downplay the loss of life in Puerto Rico. Because brown people criticized Trump.

Keep it classy, Darrin.

Told you I wouldn't have to wait long. :lmao

[DarrinS]

Oh, you're just actively trying to downplay the loss of life in Puerto Rico. Because brown people criticized Trump.

Keep it classy, Darrin.

Told you I wouldn't have to wait long. :lmao


brown *ding*

[Pavlov]

brown *ding*You're the one shitting on their deaths, Darrin.

Good job.

[DarrinS]

You're the one shitting on their deaths, Darrin.

Good job.

wow. this is getting boring, tbh

[Pavlov]

wow. this is getting boring, tbhI can't believe you only lasted like 15 minutes before shitting on another minority. I guess Puerto Ricans just had to do tonight.

[DarrinS]

I can't believe you only lasted like 15 minutes before shitting on another minority. I guess Puerto Ricans just had to do tonight.

:cry he hate Puero Ricans :cry


I'm sure the 80+ from Harvey and 70+ from Irma were all whites.

[Pavlov]

:cry he hate Puero Ricans :cry


I'm sure the 80+ from Harvey and 70+ from Irma were all whites.Hey, Darrin's making it a contest again!

You just seem bitter you couldn't find any good white savior stories in PR like you did with the Cajun Navy tbh.

[boutons_deux]

Trump Visits Puerto Rico After Insult Tweets, Tells Officials Hurricane Threw Budget ‘Out Of Whack’

Tensions are high after the president ripped into local officials for criticizing his administration’s storm response.

“I hate to tell you, Puerto Rico, but you’ve thrown our budget a little out of whack, because we’ve spent a lot of money on Puerto Rico”

called San Juan Mayor Carmen Yulín Cruz as “nasty” for criticizing the government’s sluggish relief efforts.

Trump again said that “at a local level, they have to give us more help,”

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-visits-puerto-rico_us_59d3640de4b0655781554854?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=__BREAKING__%202017-10-03%20Trump%20Visits%20Hurricane-Battered%20Puerto%20Rico%20After%20Insult%20Tweets %20Tells%20Officials%20That%20It%20Threw%20Budget% 20Out%20Of%20Whack&utm_content=__BREAKING__%202017-10-03%20Trump%20Visits%20Hurricane-Battered%20Puerto%20Rico%20After%20Insult%20Tweets %20Tells%20Officials%20That%20It%20Threw%20Budget% 20Out%20Of%20Whack+CID_c97f349d5a22e7d50ed8929db90 db8b1&utm_source=Email%20marketing%20software&utm_term=Read%20More&ncid=newsltushpmgnews__BREAKING__%202017-10-03%20Trump%20Visits%20Hurricane-Battered%20Puerto%20Rico%20After%20Insult%20Tweets %20Tells%20Officials%20That%20It%20Threw%20Budget% 20Out%20Of%20Whack

Trash'a priority is lying praise about himself and LYING how great Fed help has been, rather than actually doing praiseworthy work, eg, BEFORE Maria hit.

"brown" Maria is Trash's "black" Katrina.

[Chucho]

http://i.imgur.com/IqbgzTb.jpg

[boutons_deux]

Trash, who still hasn't requested Congress for PR funds, won't help his own (brown) citizens, so other countries step up.

Germany steps up to help rebuild power grid in Puerto Rico's emergency relief centers (https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/10/2/1703392/-Germany-steps-up-to-help-rebuild-power-grid-in-Puerto-Rico-s-emergency-relief-centers)

A German energy provider says it will be installing microgrids in Puerto Rico to help power emergency centers around the island. According to Bloomberg (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-10-02/puerto-rico-to-get-power-relief-from-german-microgrid-supplier?cmpid=socialflow-twitter-business&utm_content=business&utm_campaign=socialflow-organic&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social), Sonnen GmbH is a “energy-storage” systems provider and will be shipping smaller systems every week as ports reopen.


Puerto Rico’s electricity grid was completely knocked out when Hurricane Maria slammed into the island Sept. 20, and repairs are expected to take months (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/terminal/OWZJNF6JTSEC).

That’s generating interest (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-09-28/storm-ravaged-caribbean-is-eyeing-solar-but-it-won-t-come-cheap) in microgrids, small-scale systems that combine solar panels and batteries that can be installed quickly to restore power to a few buildings at a time.

Tesla Inc. is sending hundreds of its Powerwall battery (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-09-28/tesla-is-sending-battery-packs-to-storm-ravaged-puerto-rico) systems to the island, and Sunnova Inc., Puerto Rico’s largest rooftop solar provider, plans to install batteries to complement its systems. [...]

Sonnen is donating equipment for the 15 relief centers.

It also expects increased demand for its systems with Puerto Rico consumers and will donate profit from local sales to build as many as 35 additional microgrids on the island.

Sonnen has installed more than 20 storage systems in Puerto Rico since 2016 and has at least 90 more on order or on their way to the island. The batteries are produced at the company’s recently opened factory in Atlanta, and the first microgrids will be operating in less than a month.


https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/10/2/1703392/-Germany-steps-up-to-help-rebuild-power-grid-in-Puerto-Rico-s-emergency-relief-centers?detail=emaildkre

[ducks]

President Trump visited storm-ravaged Puerto Rico on Tuesday to survey damage and talk to residents, while also meeting and briefly praising the San Juan mayor following a feud over the administration's response to Hurricane Maria.





The president, accompanied by first lady Melania Trump, participated in a packed briefing on storm recovery shortly after landing at Luis Muñiz Air National Guard Base in San Juan.

San Juan Mayor Carmen Yulin Cruz, who has repeatedly criticized the president’s actions since the storm wreaked havoc on the U.S. territory last month, was seen shaking Trump's hand and joining him for the briefing in a hangar at the base.


wow I thought he hated browns he shook her hand!

[ducks]

PR was given billions to rebuild their infrastructure, what did they do, built casino's. Yes they are Dems that run PR. Lots of pocket money floating around for them

[Pavlov]

PR was given billions to rebuild their infrastructure, what did they do, built casino's. Yes they are Dems that run PR. Lots of pocket money floating around for themIs Rush telling you that?

[ducks]

I do not listen to rush
he comes across to cocky for me

[Pavlov]

I do not listen to rush
he comes across to cocky for meWho told you about the casinos then?

[ducks]

the internet

[Pavlov]

the internetDrudge?

YouTube comment?

[CosmicCowboy]

LV shooter just fucked PR. Their week of press coverage is over.

[boutons_deux]

Trump Just Made A Complete Fool Of Himself Handing Out Supplies To Desperate Puerto Ricans

http://verifiedpolitics.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/woow.jpg

hurl paper towels into the crowd like they were tee shirts at a wrestling match.

https://twitter.com/dave_brown24/status/915279018945138688

http://verifiedpolitics.com/trump-just-made-complete-fool-handing-supplies-desperate-puerto-ricans/ (http://verifiedpolitics.com/trump-just-made-complete-fool-handing-supplies-desperate-puerto-ricans/)

[Chucho]

http://i.imgur.com/IqbgzTb.jpg

[boutons_deux]

Trump complains about price tag of Puerto Rico recovery, brags about military boondoggle

suggested the disaster on the island after Hurricane Maria was minimal compared to a “real catastrophe like Hurricane Katrina” and complained about the cost of the recovery efforts.

“I hate to tell you, Puerto Rico, but you’ve thrown our budget a little out of whack,” Trump said.

Just a few minutes later in the press conference, he began talking about how he was happy to spend “hundreds of millions” on the F-35 — a warplane that has yet to fly in a single American combat mission.

“So amazing, we are ordering hundreds of millions of dollars of new airplanes for the Air Force, especially the F-35,” Trump told an Air Force officer who was attending the press conference. “You like the F-35? ... You can't see it. You literally can't see it. It's hard to fight a plane you can't see.”

https://www.vox.com/world/2017/10/3/16412042/trump-puerto-rico-f-35

[boutons_deux]

https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/EfqF_YissRHuHe_xD5PswYCfZSQ=/1200x0/filters:no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/9374163/1.jpg

[ducks]

Trump Just Made A Complete Fool Of Himself Handing Out Supplies To Desperate Puerto Ricans

http://verifiedpolitics.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/woow.jpg

hurl paper towels into the crowd like they were tee shirts at a wrestling match.

https://twitter.com/dave_brown24/status/915279018945138688

http://verifiedpolitics.com/trump-just-made-complete-fool-handing-supplies-desperate-puerto-ricans/ (http://verifiedpolitics.com/trump-just-made-complete-fool-handing-supplies-desperate-puerto-ricans/)




he helps people complain he does not people complain

he could hand one thousand dollars bills to every living person on island and people would compain

[boutons_deux]

Trump Just Said Puerto Ricans Should Be “Proud” They Aren’t Suffering From A “Real Catastrophe” Like Katrina


http://verifiedpolitics.com/trump-just-said-puerto-ricans-proud-arent-suffering-real-catastrophe-like-katrina/

[ducks]

Trump should say .. if Trump does
well he is reading off telepropter not him

[boutons_deux]

Vulture Capitalists Circle Above Puerto Rico

You've said that Puerto Rico was in trouble long before the hurricane.

Puerto Rico's been in an economic recession for over a decade. The great American recession that was so debated in the United States during the early Obama administration after the collapse of the banks in the US -- all of that started in Puerto Rico much earlier, and whereas the US is said to have recovered to some extent for certain populations, Puerto Rico's recession has only deepened. That is in part due to the lack of a strong economic base and to tax incentives that were put in place to bring foreign -- "foreign" meaning US companies -- to Puerto Rico. After the crash a lot of companies left and a base of employment in Puerto Rico was gone.

So even before this last hurricane, already Puerto Rico had huge unemployment, huge poverty rates -- poverty rates that double any poverty rate in the US, even that of the poorest states of the US -- and a very neglected infrastructure that was not ready for the storms.

Why was the inequality in Puerto Rico so great?

Because there's been an erosion of the middle class. And so you have a lot of people at the bottom who can't find work, who can't start their own businesses. Many of them depend on government assistance, but there's also a huge number who are working poor, who live paycheck to paycheck, who are supplementing their incomes with the gig economy. Retailers like Walmart offer no job security. Most of the people working for them can't predict their shifts -- their shifts change from week to week. They have to keep their schedules completely open. They are paid for part-time labor, but have to be available full-time.

You've described these Caribbean societies, including Puerto Rico, as protected markets for national corporations.

Yes. If you look at the Jones Act, the only goods that can arrive in Puerto Rico have to be on US-made ships, and owned by US citizens, with a US crew flying a US flag. So this means that if the Dominican Republic wants to sell food to Puerto Rico, which it does, it has to send that food first to Jacksonville, Florida, unload it, put it on another ship that is allowed to bring it to Puerto Rico. So this makes it very difficult for Puerto Rico to engage in trade with other countries. We're not an independent nation, so we can't make our own trade arrangements. And that means that we have to buy mostly from the US.

You have described Puerto Rico and the other Caribbean societies as important economic cover for their colonial centers. What do you mean?

I mean that a lot of things happen in these places that aren't supposed to happen -- that's what I mean by cover. The United States can claim to offer certain kinds of guarantees to its citizens, but those guarantees are suspended when it comes to the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico. So veterans benefits are less, guarantees of health care are less, guarantees of public education -- all these things are reduced. And in addition, wealthy people who are supposed to pay their share, they're able to completely evade their taxes and not contribute to the national interest by setting up companies in Puerto Rico.


So things were really made worse by tax incentives to wealthy investors. I believe Puerto Rico's Act #22 allows wealthy investors to evade both federal and local income tax by spending a minimum of 183 nights a year on the island.

Yes, it's true. It's hard to comprehend, but it's true. You have a lot of wealthy Americans who say, "Oh, this is great for us, it's the thing that can get you out from under the US Internal Revenue Service without having to renounce your citizenship." So they retain their American voting rights, they retain all their benefits of US citizenship, but they do not contribute anything to the US, nor do they contribute anything to Puerto Rico because they're also not paying local taxes.

How did Puerto Rico get its unique privilege to offer triple tax-exempt bonds?

It's basically written into its constitution. When Congress established Puerto Rico's civil government in 1917 it decreed that any bonds issued by its government would be free from taxation. In addition, it is written into the 1952 constitution that the repayment of any kind of public debt must take priority over financing public services. In 1952, when Puerto Rican politicians tried to convince Puerto Ricans that they were no longer a colony, and they convinced the United Nations to take Puerto Rico off the list of non-self-governing societies, this constitution was put into place and one of its founding principles was that Puerto Rico was going to be a site for US economic investment. And so you can purchase these triple tax-exempt bonds and not pay any federal tax, any tax in Puerto Rico, or any tax in the municipality in which you live. This made these bonds incredibly seductive for US. I urge everyone to read the great story in The New York Times "The Bonds That Broke Puerto Rico (https://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/01/business/dealbook/the-bonds-that-broke-puerto-rico.html)."

http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/42134-vulture-capitalists-circle-above-puerto-rico-prey

[TSA]

Can one of facebookers log in and post Cope’s story. He worked Harvey and Maria. Apparently the response in Puerto Rico is nothing like the media is trying to make it out to be.

https://m.facebook.com/ed.cope.5/posts/10212364724726405?comment_id=10212372359557271&notif_id=1506918034681678&notif_t=feed_comment&ref=notif

[ducks]

Can one of facebookers log in and post Cope’s story. He worked Harvey and Maria. Apparently the response in Puerto Rico is nothing like the media is trying to make it out to be.

https://m.facebook.com/ed.cope.5/posts/10212364724726405?comment_id=10212372359557271¬if_ id=1506918034681678¬if_t=feed_comment&ref=notif


Edward Cope


I spent the last month and a half at Ft Sam Huston in LTG Buchanan's / MG Chinn's HQ coordinating the logistics posture for this response. I'm pretty sure I know more about this than CNN. Preparations were made and assets were pre-positioned before the hurricane hit the island. Having also previously been involved in the Harvey response, I would say the Maria response is & will be better than Harvey since the exact same logistics planners learned of any shortfalls and roadblocks from having just coordinated the logistics effort for Harvey / Irma. The narrative that this administration is delaying response for Puerto Rico for whatever reason is total Horseshit. This response is the most dynamic response the Federal Government has ever had to any natural disaster, ever.

[boutons_deux]

Can one of facebookers log in and post Cope’s story. He worked Harvey and Maria. Apparently the response in Puerto Rico is nothing like the media is trying to make it out to be.

https://m.facebook.com/ed.cope.5/posts/10212364724726405?comment_id=10212372359557271&notif_id=1506918034681678&notif_t=feed_comment&ref=notif

The irreparable FAILURE is that Trash and his FEMA FAILED to prepare PR/USVI as Maria approached.

iow, Trash and his FEMA made the Maria disaster much worse than it had to be.

Maria is Trash's Katrina.

"Heckuva job, Brockie"

I have no reason to doubt that NOW FEMA, etc are busting their asses, but they've made their work much harder.

Trash has YET to ask Congress for $10Bs needed to repair PR, USVI.

[Pavlov]

:cheerLV shooter just fucked PR. Their week of press coverage is over.:cheer

[Splits]

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Fuck that stuck up twat..... air force spokesman. Someone should piss on his 13yr old daughter. ducks

[Pavlov]

915295655882616834

:lmao

[TSA]

Edward Cope


I spent the last month and a half at Ft Sam Huston in LTG Buchanan's / MG Chinn's HQ coordinating the logistics posture for this response. I'm pretty sure I know more about this than CNN. Preparations were made and assets were pre-positioned before the hurricane hit the island. Having also previously been involved in the Harvey response, I would say the Maria response is & will be better than Harvey since the exact same logistics planners learned of any shortfalls and roadblocks from having just coordinated the logistics effort for Harvey / Irma. The narrative that this administration is delaying response for Puerto Rico for whatever reason is total Horseshit. This response is the most dynamic response the Federal Government has ever had to any natural disaster, ever.

I'm able to read that part just can't get in to the rest of his posts without a facebook. Supposed to be a bunch of pictures and descriptions of the response effort.

[Blake]

915295655882616834

Fuck that stuck up twat..... air force spokesman. Someone should piss on his 13yr old daughter. ducks

Seems like something W would have said

[Pavlov]

I'm able to read that part just can't get in to the rest of his posts without a facebook. Supposed to be a bunch of pictures and descriptions of the response effort.Fabbs could probably help you out.

[TSA]

The irreparable FAILURE is that Trash and his FEMA FAILED to prepare PR/USVI as Maria approached.

iow, Trash and his FEMA made the Maria disaster much worse than it had to be.

Maria is Trash's Katrina.

"Heckuva job, Brockie"

I have no reason to doubt that NOW FEMA, etc are busting their asses, but they've made their work much harder.

Trash has YET to ask Congress for $10Bs needed to repair PR, USVI.

You are working on a response team in Puerto Rico? If not how do you know what was prepared in Puerto Rico before Maria hit?

[TSA]

Fabbs could probably help you out.
Fabbs

[Blake]

"....Every death is a horror," he began. "But, if you look at a real catastrophe like Katrina, and you look at the tremendous hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of people that died and you look at what happened here with really a storm that was just*totally overpowering*..."

"And what is your death count as of this moment, seventeen?" Trump asked Puerto Rican Governor*Ricardo Rossello.

"Sixteen certified," Rossello replied.*

"Sixteen versus literally thousands of people," Trump said. "You can be very proud. Everybody around this table*and everybody watching*can really be very proud of what's taken place in Puerto Rico."......

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.aol.com/amp/2017/10/03/trump-sparks-fury-on-twitter-with-hurricane-katrina-comments/

[Pavlov]

"....Every death is a horror," he began. "But, if you look at a real catastrophe like Katrina, and you look at the tremendous hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of people that died and you look at what happened here with really a storm that was just*totally overpowering*..."

"And what is your death count as of this moment, seventeen?" Trump asked Puerto Rican Governor*Ricardo Rossello.

"Sixteen certified," Rossello replied.*

"Sixteen versus literally thousands of people," Trump said. "You can be very proud. Everybody around this table*and everybody watching*can really be very proud of what's taken place in Puerto Rico."......Everybody is watching me pimp a death count that hasn't been updated in a week.:tu

[Blake]

Hey look, at least your deadly hurricane wasn't as bad as real American hurricanes. Be proud

[boutons_deux]

You are working on a response team in Puerto Rico? If not how do you know what was prepared in Puerto Rico before Maria hit?

from the complaints we read about now that FEMA prep for Maria hitting PR/USVI was extremely small, to non-existent.

[TSA]

from the complaints we read about now that FEMA prep for Maria hitting PR/USVI was extremely small, to non-existent.
I'd like to read information from someone actually working the response, not CNN. Do you have a facebook account to log in and read it?

[boutons_deux]

I'd like to read information from someone actually working the response, not CNN. Do you have a facebook account to log in and read it?

"Do Your Own Research" -- WC

[ducks]

from the complaints we read about now that FEMA prep for Maria hitting PR/USVI was extremely small, to non-existent.

they are not true

[boutons_deux]

Trump says helping Puerto Rico is breaking the US budget. Texas has gotten way more money.


FEMA has approved hundreds of millions of dollars for Florida and Texas.


https://www.vox.com/2017/10/3/16413142/puerto-rico-trump-budget

[Brazil]

http://i2.cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/171003141618-02-trump-paper-towels-puerto-rico-10-03-2017-large-tease.jpg


The President of Murica ladies and gentlemen !

:lmao oh my fucking god

[Brazil]

The cringe is real not like Maria

[ducks]

I'm able to read that part just can't get in to the rest of his posts without a facebook. Supposed to be a bunch of pictures and descriptions of the response effort.

https://www.facebook.com/USArmyNorth/photos/pcb.10154699700015059/10154699698625059/?type=3&theater

https://www.facebook.com/USArmyNorth/photos/pcb.10154699706490059/10154699705155059/?type=3&theater

[florige]

http://i2.cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/171003141618-02-trump-paper-towels-puerto-rico-10-03-2017-large-tease.jpg


The President of Murica ladies and gentlemen !

:lmao oh my fucking god



This moron never fails to disappoint. Any time you think he couldn't be any more of a idiot he proves everyone wrong.

[TSA]

https://www.facebook.com/USArmyNorth/photos/pcb.10154699700015059/10154699698625059/?type=3&theater

https://www.facebook.com/USArmyNorth/photos/pcb.10154699706490059/10154699705155059/?type=3&theater

do you have facebook ducks?

[Brazil]

This moron never fails to disappoint. Any time you think he couldn't be any more of a idiot he proves everyone wrong.

people were like wtf.... dat cringe oh boy

[ducks]

do you have facebook ducks?

yes

[ducks]

IRS awards multimillion-dollar fraud-prevention contract to EQUIFAX...

[florige]

people were like wtf.... dat cringe oh boy



He acts like he is at a concert throwing out souvenirs for his adoring fans or something. This guy is the definition of the word stupid.

[Trill Clinton]

http://i2.cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/171003141618-02-trump-paper-towels-puerto-rico-10-03-2017-large-tease.jpg


The President of Murica ladies and gentlemen !

:lmao oh my fucking god

is he really shooting rolls of paper towels into the crowd? dude is a fucking clown.

[Pavlov]

is he really shooting rolls of paper towels into the crowd? dude is a fucking clown.That way he doesn't have to touch them.

[ducks]

he White House will soon ask Congress to green light almost $30 billion for recovery efforts in hurricane-ravaged Puerto Rico, Texas, and Florida, The Washington Post reported Tuesday.

[monosylab1k]

so you think I should pee infront of your 13 year old daughter?

[ducks]

Loser

[Pavlov]

he White House will soon ask Congress to green light almost $30 billion for recovery efforts in hurricane-ravaged Puerto Rico, Texas, and Florida, The Washington Post reported Tuesday.Yeah, he let PR know what a burden they are being.

[monosylab1k]

so you think I should pee infront of your 13 year old daughter?

[ducks]

Must be nice to get money from gov
I never get any

[Pavlov]

Must be nice to get money from gov
I never get anyWhat happened to you, ducks?

[ducks]

2 surgeries

[ducks]

Back and hand

[ducks]

Special Refinance Rates Take A Sharp Decline
Trump Says Puerto Rico's Debt Will Have to Be Wiped Out

Tuesday, 03 Oct 2017 10:03 PM


Join in!

President Donald Trump expressed satisfaction on Tuesday with the federal response to Hurricane Maria's devastation of Puerto Rico, despite criticism that the government was slow to address the crisis.
Trump, who has grappled with hurricanes Harvey, Irma and Maria in the past six weeks, said at a briefing that the disasters were straining the U.S. budget.

"I hate to tell you, Puerto Rico, but you've thrown our budget a little out of whack because we've spent a lot of money on Puerto Rico," he said. "And that's fine. We've saved a lot of lives."

Two weeks after it was hit by the worst hurricane in 90 years, many of Puerto Rico's 3.4 million residents are still struggling without basic necessities. Shortly after Trump left Puerto Rico, Governor Ricardo Rosello said the death toll had risen from 16 to 34.


The U.S. territory's economy already was in recession before Hurricane Maria and its government had filed for bankruptcy in the face of a $72 billion debt load. In an interview with Fox News, Trump said the island's debt would have to be erased.

"They owe a lot of money to your friends on Wall Street and we're going to have to wipe that out. You're going to say goodbye to that, I don't know if it's Goldman Sachs but whoever it is you can wave goodbye to that," Trump said in the interview, conducted while he visited the island.

Moody's on Tuesday estimated Maria’s total cost to Puerto Rico, including lost output, at $45 billion to $95 billion and significant relief from the federal government would be required.

Trump said the federal response to Maria compared favorably with a "real catastrophe like Katrina," the 2005 storm that swamped Louisiana and Mississippi and killed more than 1,800.

[ducks]

I thought he did not care wiping out all the money they owe

[ducks]

16 died 1800 Katrina

[Pavlov]

Death toll doubles after Trump's visit.

Go figure.

[boutons_deux]

Having said PR is in big debt, in big water, it's an island, screwing up his budget, Trash now says PR debt must be cancelled. :lol

So Trash is gonna unbankrupt PR? allow it to declare default and wipe it all out?


Trump Says Puerto Rico Debt Needs to be Wiped Out (https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2017/10/trump-says-puerto-rico-debt-needs-wiped.html)


https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2017/10/trump-says-puerto-rico-debt-needs-wiped.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+NakedCapitalism+%28naked+capi talism%29

Porto Rico, Hawaii, Alaska must be liberated by cancelling the Jones Act.

Isn't killing regulations ALL that the Repugs do? But the JA is corporate welfare, so Repugs won't touch it.

[boutons_deux]

He repeatedly played down the destruction to the island,

telling local officials

they should feel “very proud” they *haven’t lost hundreds of lives

like in “a real catastrophe” like Hurricane Katrina along the Gulf Coast in 2005.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-praises-himself-for-administrations-great-job-in-puerto-rico/2017/10/03/fdb5eeb4-a83a-11e7-8ed2-c7114e6ac460_story.html?utm_term=.3d04af667b6b

[boutons_deux]

Trump Says He Is ‘Just Very Proud’ of Death Count in Puerto Rico


DonaldTrump continued his praise of the “just 16” person death count in hurricane devastated Puerto Rico.

“I’m just very proud of the fact — you look at just one statistic, 16 deaths. That’s a lot of deaths, far too many deaths. If you look at Katrina, they had in the thousands, and this was a storm the likes of which nobody has ever seen.”

https://www.mediaite.com/tv/trump-says-he-is-just-very-proud-of-death-count-in-puerto-rico/

In Trash's fucked up, sicko mind (a sickness that infects all his supporters), PR's disaster is all about him and his pride, as if he personally kept the body count low.

"thousands"? :lol

"Hurricane Katrina on August 29, leaving 238 people dead, 67 missing"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Katrina

[boutons_deux]

San Juan Mayor Slams Donald Trump For ‘Terrible And Abominable’ Puerto Rico Stunt

The mayor of San Juan, Puerto Rico blasted President Donald Trump (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/topic/donald-trump)’s meeting with local leaders on the island Tuesday as a public relations stunt.

“There was no exchange with anybody (http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/san-juan-mayor-trump-was-insulting-to-the-people-of-puerto-rico-1061332547621), with none of the mayors,” Mayor Carmen Yulín Cruz said on MSNBC.

She called out Trump for the bizarre moment when he tossed paper towels to storm survivors in need of supplies (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/donald-trump-helps-suffering-puerto-ricans-by-throwing-paper-towels-at-them_us_59d3db64e4b0218923e5b4f7?ncid=inblnkushpmg 00000009) after Hurricane Maria left many on the island without basic necessities.

“This terrible and abominable view of him throwing paper towels and throwing provisions at people, it does not embody the spirit of the American nation,” Cruz said. “That is not the land of the free and the home of the brave, that beacon of democracy that people have learned to look up to across the world.”

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/san-juan-mayor-trump-abominable_us_59d48333e4b0218923e632d9?utm_medium= email&utm_campaign=__TheMorningEmail__100417&utm_content=__TheMorningEmail__100417+CID_7ca5f9c4 c1fd605ab58f9172e4befb3d&utm_source=Email%20marketing%20software&utm_term=HuffPost&ncid=newsltushpmgnews__TheMorningEmail__100417

"land of the free and the home of the brave, that beacon of democracy" :lol Does she really believe those bullshit myths? :lol

[Brazil]

is he really shooting rolls of paper towels into the crowd? dude is a fucking clown.

yes... you should see the video, it's beyong pathetic

[Reck]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QzKgsEsW-lE

http://a.abcnews.com/images/Politics/donald-trump-puerto-rico-supply-distribution-ap-jef-171003_4x3_992.jpg

This guy is disgusting.

[Splits]

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[Pavlov]

So ducks is trying to bury this thread?

[ducks]

San Juan Mayor is brainwashed sheep!

[boutons_deux]

Puerto Rico Issues Travel Ban on Malignant Narcissists

SAN JUAN —Calling the move an “urgent response to recent unfortunate events,” Puerto Rico has issued a sweeping travel ban on malignant narcissists, effective immediately.

Starting on Wednesday,

Customs and Border Protection officials at Puerto Rico’s ports of entry will be equipped with the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM–V)

issued by the American Psychiatric Association, and will be

instructed to look for symptoms of malignant narcissism in those attempting to enter.

“If port officials encounter a visitor who has a pompous and arrogant demeanor,

needs the constant admiration of others, and

is unwilling to empathize with others’ feelings, wishes, or needs,

that visitor will be denied entry,” a Puerto Rican government statement read.

Puerto Rico took the forceful action after an incident on Tuesday, in which a man with narcissistic-personality disorder gained entry to the island and inexplicably hurled projectiles at unwitting Puerto Ricans.

“We had to do something,” one government official said. “Enough is enough.”

Puerto Rico’s ban on malignant narcissists drew widespread praise from people around the world,

with many Americans calling for a similar ban in the mainland United States.

https://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/puerto-rico-issues-travel-ban-on-malignant-narcissists (https://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/puerto-rico-issues-travel-ban-on-malignant-narcissists)

[clambake]

Death toll doubles after Trump's visit.

Go figure.

lol

[CosmicCowboy]

That bit about the PR bonds was pretty funny. Dont think a Prez can just arbitrarily order a cram down. Scared the shit out of some people though. The GO bonds went from .50 to .29 before the bottom fishers jumped in.

[Trill Clinton]

ducks...what do you have to say to tim duncan. he is still asking for help for the virgin islands

915532725007745025

[djohn2oo8]

Death toll could be as high as 450 and Trump is threatening to pull first responders from the island...

[rjv]

Congress will never forgive the debt that U.S. foreign policy is largely responsible for. Once again, we see foreign policy that is based on the interest of the U.S. banks (along with Wall Street) because Puerto Rico's debt is a result of predatory bond deals brokered by Wall Street. The Congress-created PROMESA just exacerbated the problem and so half of the country's American citizens live under the poverty level with inflated sales taxes and inflated electricity and water rates (Governor Rossello wants to privatize everything). Social programs have been cut massively, public schools have been shut down and funding to the public university cut by almost half a billion. The U.S. no longer values PR because sugar cane and military bases are no longer needed, rendering the island an archaic colony. Thanks to the Reagan administration Puerto Rico lost its ability to seek debt relief because it was not allowed to declare Chapter 9. PROMESA offers a version of it but it involves 'settlements' that would likely be tested in the US courts. Now that Maria has devasted the island one can look for the usual US post-disaster corporate deployment to take place. Privatization. Bondholders coming in to soak up all available revenue (including pensions). And meanwhile, people will literally starve to death or die from conditions that are easily treated or prevented.

[Pavlov]

Death toll could be as high as 450 and Trump is threatening to pull first responders from the island...Trump said it was only 16, so that has to be the truth. Dude has never lied about anything in his life.

[boutons_deux]

FEMA dodges questions about Puerto Rico’s reported food shortages

"There is no urgency in the government response to this humanitarian crisis," contractors claim.

U.S. officials have privately acknowledged that Puerto Rico is facing a massive food shortage amid an escalating humanitarian crisis, a new report claims. The news comes as the island continues to face staggering water and power shortages and growing anger among its citizens that the U.S. government has not done enough.

Officials working with the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) say that only 200,000 meals per day are being provided by the government, according to the Guardian (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/oct/11/puerto-rico-food-shortage-hurricane-maria).

That small allotment is meant to feed more than 2 million people, with many of the meals made in a “military ready-to-eat” style that can be challenging to digest over an extended period of time, the publication reported.

According to the disaster-relief nonprofit World Central Kitchen (https://www.eater.com/2017/10/10/16452524/jose-andres-has-served-over-350000-meals-in-puerto-rico), the organization’s agreement with FEMA expired on Tuesday, ending the mere 20,000 meals per day it had been supplying, which was outlined in its contract.

It could be weeks before a new contract materializes, part of the federal rules FEMA insists it must follow.

Some say that slowness is being exacerbated by a lack of preparedness, as much as by apathy.

https://thinkprogress.org/puerto-rico-food-shortage-a941bf56ab18/ (https://thinkprogress.org/puerto-rico-food-shortage-a941bf56ab18/)

[boutons_deux]

FEMA: "Not our job to deliver water and food" to Puerto Ricans.

FEMA claims the roads aren’t passable, For the record, when I say “about an hour south” I mean Google Maps puts the drive — right now — at 1 hour and 5 minutes if I take the autopista (highway).

BUT it also says there are portions of the road that are closed.

Soooo you have to take route 173 and that takes 1 hour and 24 minutes. Maybe Google is wrong, right?

It would be nice if someone on the ground could actually make the trip…. oh wait… what’s that?

The MSNBC film crew already made the trip and it took them “about an hour and a half.”

As the MSNBC video shows, they got there no problem because the road was clear. No bridges out, no trees in the way, no mudslides, no raging rivers.

Presented with the fact of Maddow’s team having video evidence directly contradicting their claims, FEMA then dropped this bombshell:

Apparently, FEMA says it is the mayor’s job to distribute food and water. They are just there to help people fill out paperwork.


FOX News reported THIS about (http://www.fox13news.com/news/local-news/fema-distributes-food-water-in-polk-co)FEMA in Lakeland, FL (http://www.fox13news.com/news/local-news/fema-distributes-food-water-in-polk-co) responding to the crisis following a recent hurricane that hit there

LAKELAND (FOX 13) - People who are worn out from Hurricane Irma are getting help in Polk County.

On Friday, FEMA starting handing out free food and water at 11 different sites around the county, including Victory Church.

A long line of cars formed at 8 a.m., and continued throughout the day.

Many of the people who came still don’t have electricity.


The difference? Unlike Aibonito, Lakeland is over 70% white, and that is the darkest part of Polk County. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lakeland,_Florida#Demographics)

The game plan in Puerto Rico is clear.

The sons of bitches are going to grind those poor bastards into dust, trigger a mass exodus of those who can afford to leave, and then swoop in and buy up the land at fire sale prices so they can build high priced condos to use as real estate for their next international money laundering scheme.

What surprises me?

There are still Puerto Ricans who think the most racist government in 70 years is going to help them.

https://m.dailykos.com/stories/2017/10/10/1705685/-FEMA-Not-our-job-to-deliver-water-and-food-to-Puerto-Ricans-Think-I-am-making-this-up-Wrong?detail=emaildkre

next up? "disaster capitalism"

brown, Spanish-speaking PR people, who are "real American citizens" for all y'all racisit white male supremacists, are and will be more fucked and unfuckable

"Remember the Maine!" to start the Spanish-American war (boat was blown up from the inside, not by an external attack by Spaniards)

[boutons_deux]

Trump threatens to abandon Puerto Rico recovery effort

President Trump served notice Thursday that he may pull back federal relief workers from Puerto Rico, effectively threatening to abandon the U.S. territory amid a staggering humanitarian crisis in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria.

Declaring the U.S. territory's electrical grid and infrastructure to have been a “disaster before hurricanes,”

Trump wrote Thursday that it will be up to Congress how much federal money to appropriate to the island for its recovery efforts and that

relief workers will not stay “forever.”
Three weeks after Maria made landfall, much of Puerto Rico, an island of 3.4 million people, remains without power.

Residents struggle to find clean water, hospitals are running short on medicine, and commerce is slow, with many businesses closed.


Donald J. Trump (https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump)
(https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump)✔@realDonaldTrump (https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump)

"Puerto Rico survived the Hurricanes, now a financial crisis looms largely of their own making." says Sharyl Attkisson. A total lack of.....
5:49 AM - Oct 12, 2017 (https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/918428456869916672)


Donald J. Trump (https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump)
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...accountability say the Governor. Electric and all infrastructure was disaster before hurricanes. Congress to decide how much to spend....
5:58 AM - Oct 12, 2017 (https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/918430769776914432)


Donald J. Trump (https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump)
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...We cannot keep FEMA, the Military & the First Responders, who have been amazing (under the most difficult circumstances) in P.R. forever!
6:07 AM - Oct 12, 2017 (https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/918432809282342912)


Ricardo Rossello (https://twitter.com/ricardorossello)
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The U.S. citizens in Puerto Rico are requesting the support that any of our fellow citizens would receive across our Nation.
9:27 AM - Oct 12, 2017 (https://twitter.com/ricardorossello/status/918483209301692416)


https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2017/10/12/trump-warns-puerto-rico-we-cannot-keep-fema-the-military-the-first-responders-forever/?undefined=&utm_term=.f32a68366eb6&wpisrc=nl_most&wpmm=1

[Trill Clinton]

Death toll could be as high as 450 and Trump is threatening to pull first responders from the island...

wow what the fuck

[SpursforSix]

wow what the fuck

I think he's worried about being associated with Ducks. Who has been asking to pee in front of 13 year old girls.

[djohn2oo8]

918588591852449792
:lmao nobody respects the cuck

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Two-man company that got $300 million Puerto Rico contract tied to Trump officials, GOP donors (https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/10/24/1709476/-Two-man-company-that-got-300-million-Puerto-Rico-contract-tied-to-Trump-officials-GOP-donors)

This is how the local news media describes Whitefish Energy. (http://mtpr.org/post/whitefish-company-wins-power-restoration-contract-puerto-rico)

The company was established in 2015. It doesn’t have an office and only lists two employees.

Whitefish Energy is little more than a post office box. They grab temporary employees and toss them at small construction jobs—with an emphasis on small. The largest electrical line constructed by Whitefish coming into 2017 was less than five miles long.

And yet, Whitefish has acquired the contract to repair the 2,400 miles of electrical lines in Puerto Rico over not just other private companies, but instead of calling in other power companies under an existing series of mutual aid agreements.

Why not exercise those agreements—which brought more than 30,000 utility workers to Florida (https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2017/09/11/hurricane-irma-continues-path-destruction-florida-eyes-cleanup/652434001/) to repair utilities after Hurricane Irma—rather than count on a tiny company which has brought in 280 temporary workers and is slowly hiring more? No one seems to know.

It’s unclear why PREPA didn’t call for mutual aid when it contracted Whitefish Energy.


But there do seem to be a few clues. (https://www.thedailybeast.com/dollar300m-puerto-rico-recovery-contract-awarded-to-tiny-utility-company-linked-to-major-trump-donor)

Among them are the fact that Whitefish is funded by a private equity firm that includes at least two big Republican donors, and one big friendship.

Luis Vega-Ramos, member of the Puerto Rico House of Representatives, told The Daily Beast, “Whitefish’s most important expertise or assets seems to have been… having the U.S. secretary of the interior, Ryan Zinke, as their former congressman and current ally and having the wisdom to retain the services of key people close to the governor [of Puerto Rico].”


https://www.dailykos.com/stories/1709476

The corruption, graft, grifting will be UnPresidented.

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https://scontent-dft4-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/22154137_773009229572492_1619180092474528002_n.jpg ?oh=d43da59875e1b597491667b6c762c227&oe=5A706060

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"Heckuva job, Trashie"

Give yourself a Perfect 10 and move on to enriching yourself with tax cuts

The U.S. Could Have Avoided Puerto Rico’s Water Crisis (https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2017/10/u-s-avoided-puerto-ricos-water-crisis.html)

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2017/10/u-s-avoided-puerto-ricos-water-crisis.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+NakedCapitalism+%28naked+capi talism%29

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FEMA Had a Plan for Responding to a Hurricane in Puerto Rico — But It Doesn’t Want You to See It

The disaster-relief agency, under fire after Hurricane Maria, won’t release the plan, even as a comparable document for Hawaii remains public.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency, citing unspecified “potentially sensitive information,” is declining to release a document it drafted several years ago that details how it would respond to a major hurricane in Puerto Rico.

The plan, known as a hurricane annex, runs more than 100 pages and explains exactly what FEMA and other agencies would do in the event that a large storm struck the island. The document could help experts assess both how well the federal government had prepared for a storm the size of Hurricane Maria and whether FEMA’s response matches what was planned.

As ProPublica has previously reported, FEMA’s Freedom of Information process is plagued by dysfunction and yearslong backlogs (https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-federal-government-no-longer-cares-about-disclosing-public-information/2016/03/10/7e0bf1bc-e631-11e5-a6f3-21ccdbc5f74e_story.html?utm_term=.5be0c599ba8c). For example, FEMA hasn’t responded to a request for documents related to Superstorm Sandy that we filed more than three and a half years ago.

https://www.propublica.org/article/fema-had-a-plan-for-responding-to-a-hurricane-in-puerto-rico

[djohn2oo8]

911 people dead

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911 people dead

... I read they are burning some bodies rather than bury them.

[Blake]

911 people dead

But still not Katrina levels, right?

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But still not Katrina levels, right?

nope, Trash said many 1000s dead by Katrina

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Trash and his Best People maintain their record of absolute perfection

White House Places All Blame for 'Astonishingly Corrupt' Whitefish Contract on Puerto Rico

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2017/10/27/white-house-places-all-blame-astonishingly-corrupt-whitefish-contract-puerto-rico

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Texas Macho Man Cowboy cosplay secessionists whining for $10Bs from the Feds (blue states)

Abbott presses Congress for an extra $61 billion to rebuild after Harvey

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott flew to Washington to press the case for an additional $61 billion in federal disaster recovery money to rebuild public infrastructure after Hurricane Harvey’s devastation.

https://www.texastribune.org/2017/10/31/texas-needs-61b-more-feds-rebuild-after-harvey-sharps-says/

There's a sentiment among Houston Harvey victims, racist to the bone, that the Feds should help TX, but not help PR.

If Abbott stands for anything, it's for hypocrisy.

[Pavlov]

Texas Mach Man Cowboy cosplay secessionists whining for $10Bs from the Feds (blue states)

Abbott presses Congress for an extra $61 billion to rebuild after Harvey

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott flew to Washington to press the case for an additional $61 billion in federal disaster recovery money to rebuild public infrastructure after Hurricane Harvey’s devastation.

https://www.texastribune.org/2017/10/31/texas-needs-61b-more-feds-rebuild-after-harvey-sharps-says/

There's a sentiment among Houston Harvey victims, racist to the bone, that the Feds should help TX, but not help PR.

If Abbott stands for anything, it's for hypocrisy.

Cash the $61 billion check -- THEN we secede!

[Blake]

Lol

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The Lineman Got $63 an Hour. The Utility Was Billed $319 an Hour.

The small energy outfit from Montana that won a $300 million contract to help rebuild Puerto Rico’s tattered power grid had few employees of its own, so it did what the Puerto Rican authorities could have done: It turned to Florida for workers.

For their trouble, the six electrical workers from Kissimmee are earning $42 an hour, plus overtime.

The senior power linemen from Lakeland are earning $63 an hour working in Puerto Rico, the Florida utility said.

Their 40 co-workers from Jacksonville, also linemen, are making up to $100 earning double time, public records show.

But the Montana company that hired the workers, Whitefish Energy Holdings, had a contract that allowed it to bill the Puerto Rican public power company, known as Prepa,

$319 an hour for linemen, a rate that industry experts said was far above the norm even for emergency work — and almost 17 times the average salary of their counterparts in Puerto Rico.
A spokesman for Whitefish, Chris Chiames, defended the costs, saying that “simply looking at the rate differential does not take into account

Whitefish’s overhead costs,” :lol

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/12/us/whitefish-energy-holdings-prepa-hurricane-recovery-corruption-hurricane-recovery-in-puerto-rico.html?partner=rss&emc=rss

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Predatory Capitalists gonna fuck PR schools like they fucked NOLA schools

Making Puerto Rico the New New Orleans – Steal the Schools and Give Them to Big Business to Run For Profit

Charter school backers can’t help it.

They see a bunch of black or brown kids displaced by a natural disaster and they have to swoop in to help…

Help themselves, that is.

They did it in 2005 to New Orleans schools after Hurricane Katrina. Now they want to do it again in Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria.

A dozen years ago in Louisiana, that meant stealing almost the entire New Orleans public school system in the aftermath of Katrina (https://www.usnews.com/opinion/knowledge-bank/2015/08/18/lessons-from-new-orleans-post-katrina-charter-school-experiment).

About 90 percent of the city’s 126 schools were given to the Louisiana Recovery School District, which turned them all into charter schools.

In effect, Louisiana state officials elected by the white majority stole control from local school boards elected by the city’s black majority.

More than 7,000 teachers most of whom were people of color and had been displaced by the hurricane found themselves replaced by mostly white teachers brought in from other parts of the country.

Now, more than 10 years later,

(https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/education/wp/2015/09/03/katrina-swept-away-new-orleans-school-system-ushering-in-new-era/?utm_term=.295cd7884e7d)the New Orleans experiment has been shown to be a failure (https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/education/wp/2015/09/03/katrina-swept-away-new-orleans-school-system-ushering-in-new-era/?utm_term=.295cd7884e7d).

Scores on standardized tests have improved (kinda (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/if-state-takeover-of-new-orleans-schools-worked-act_us_5990ec27e4b0caa1687a6165)), but the curriculum has narrowed,

teacher turnover has doubled,

disadvantaged and special education students have even fewer resources

while schools fight over high achieving children,

students spend hours being bused to schools far from their homes,

communities have been erased, and

parents have less control over how their own tax dollars are spent.

That is what Keleher and others want to

repeat in Puerto Rico – wrest control away from the public and give it to big business all wrapped up in a bow.

Keleher’s administration, the Education Secretary has

pledged to lay off massive amounts of teachers and permanently close more schools – even schools that are structurally sound.

“Keleher is using the crisis as an opportunity

to close hundreds of public schools,

lay off senior teachers and

privatize public education,”

says Mercedes Martinez, President of the Federacion de Maestros of Puerto Rico (https://www.facebook.com/federaciondemaestrosdepuertorico), an island teachers union.

https://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/11/10/making-puerto-rico-new-new-orleans-steal-schools-and-give-them-big-business-run

Disaster Capitalism, Capitalists fucking everybody and everything for profit.

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the predatory vampire squid of (colonial) capitalism gonna fuck PR hard and deep (they ain't white, don't speak English, aren't Real Americans, so fuck 'em)

Exploiting tragedy, heartless Republicans seek to privatize Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria (https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/11/14/1715532/-Exploiting-tragedy-heartless-Republicans-seek-to-privatize-Puerto-Rico-after-Hurricane-Maria)

Donald Trump thinks that everything that has happened in Puerto Rico is the fault of the Puerto Rican people.

Republicans (https://theintercept.com/2017/11/14/puerto-rico-hurricane-maria-promesa-andrew-biggs/) are following suit in the blame game, heaping lots of shame and blame on Puerto Rico while also trying to promote big business in the post-hurricane recovery.

One of the appointed officials overseeing Puerto Rico’s government said last week that he hoped the island would finally accept

a range of austerity measures

after Hurricane Maria,

likening the island to “the alcoholic who hits rock bottom and says, ‘OK, we’re bankrupt now, and we really got to change the way we’re doing things.'”

This gem of a comment comparing a disease (as classified by the American Medical Association) to a natural disaster came from

Andrew Biggs, a Republican who is a member of PROMESA—

the financial oversight and management board for Puerto Rico established in 2016 under the Puerto Rico Oversight, Management and Economic Stability Act.

Apparently Biggs shares Trump’s views that everything that has happened in Puerto Rico is the fault of the people living there and not the fact that they are a colony (https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/posteverything/wp/2017/09/26/puerto-rico-may-not-be-a-colony-but-its-getting-treated-that-way/?utm_term=.fcb77ba0f0a3)of the United States.

Biggs is a resident scholar, he was full of this bigotry and conservative ideology masquerading as thoughtful analysis.


Biggs discussed what he described as the structural barriers for Puerto Rico’s recovery:

minimum wage laws,
labor rules requiring just-cause termination,
paid sick days for employees,
paternity leave, and
overtime pay.

Even a planned Christmas bonus for employees is problematic, he noted.

The labor rules that govern Puerto Rico, Biggs said, are part of an “inherited political culture” from its time as a Spanish colony, which must be reshaped to ensure an economy recovery.

“The reality is, the government doesn’t want to do these things,” he said of labor changes. “If you let them not do them, they won’t do them.”

The AEI scholar :lol argued that

any additional financial aid from Congress should be contingent on revamping and repealing the island’s welfare and labor regulations.

Puerto Rico wasn’t allowed to elect its own governor until 1947,

experienced forced sterilization (https://stanford.edu/group/womenscourage/cgi-bin/blogs/familyplanning/2008/10/23/forced-sterilization-in-puerto-rico/) of women on the island, and

how Congress (http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/faultlines/2015/10/economy-puerto-rico-gamble-151019181845800.html) has given tax breaks to companies operating in Puerto Rico and

have allowed for predatory investors to buy up debt and live extremely well on the island

while people (nearly 50 percent) remain living below the poverty line.

As Belen Fernandez in Al Jazeera wrote in August, after these kinds of abuses by the US government dating back to 1898, “Now, we are told Puerto Rico is a "commonwealth"—which certainly sounds a lot more civilised than the other C-word.”

Instead of helping people who have lost everything, Republicans are talking about privatizing (https://nonprofitquarterly.org/2017/11/09/puerto-rico-privatization-battle-wages-now-schools/) the island’s schools. And they want to push this as a good time for the island to use natural gas.

Two senior lawmakers viewed as close to the fracking industry, Reps. Glenn Thompson, R-Penn., and Doug Lamborn, R-Colo., used a hearing to call for the island to revamp its energy needs through natural gas.

“We need to look at environmental regulation waivers” to implement energy policy on the island, Lamborn added.

Make no mistake—Republicans are incredibly greedy and inhumane.

They will use this tragedy as an opportunity to squeeze every little drop from Puerto Rico and they will withhold vital support from the island until they get their way.

None of this is about helping US citizens.

It’s about punishing them and making a buck.

And if that’s not full proof that Puerto Rico is a colony, nothing is.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/11/14/1715532/-Exploiting-tragedy-heartless-Republicans-seek-to-privatize-Puerto-Rico-after-Hurricane-Maria?detail=emaildkre

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From an email

"Hedge-fund billionaire Seth Klarman owns $911 million of Puerto Rico’s debt. And he thinks it’s time for the island to pay up.

Klarman is demanding the island pay up.

Puerto Rican lawyer and politician, Iván Rivera Reyes, says the COFINA bonds that Klarman’s firm owns were a “creation of Wall Street financial whizzes” to take advantage of the island’s precarious economic situation."

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vampire squid vulture capitalism.

Klarman probably thinks US govt will cover PR's debt, but US govt helped create PR's debt.

The Capitalists' shitstorm will fuck up PR much worse than the hurricanes, for decades. Ask Greece.

[RandomGuy]

I live in PR and as you know Irma and Maria have caused great devastation. As a person who is actually living the SHTF scenario due to the aftermath of these hurricanes, I have to say that prepping and actually living through it doesn't compare to the expectations we had.
Today is day #49 after hurricane Maria and 61 days after Irma. There is still no power, water comes and goes every few days, but it's not safe to drink. The CDC is recommending we boil and treat with bleach for personal hygiene, sanitation and for consumption.
Power will take a couple of months to be back. Maybe between April and May. Just in time for the next hurricane season. Water depends on electrical power. Right now we have generators pumping water. They're alternating days of service between the communities. But if that generator breaks or collapses, bye bye water.
Supermarkets carry very low supplies because they're running on generators too. Prices have rocket to the sky on most basic items including bottled water. Hard to find baby items and basic items.
There's debris every where. Rats have made debris and water sources their home, contaminating it. People are dying because of water contamination with rat's urine.
Most banks have had to close again because their generators have collapsed. So you can't access cash either. Most of the businesses are closed or open very limited hours due to the same situation.
Relief that's being sent from all over the states is taking way to long to arrive and to be distributed. We still have lots of communities that can't be accessed since the hurricane hit us.
Phone signal comes and goes. Actually I have signal since Saturday night but it's not constant.
In my personal case most of my supplies are gone. Lost more than half during the impact and have used what was left. I have a family of six including two babies (1&2 years old). But I'm grateful because we're alive and the knowledge acquired has helped us survive this nightmare.
I've been collecting rainwater for personal hygiene, cooking, drinking and hand washing clothes. I'm boiling the water as a precaution. Cooking with wood, solar oven and a Dutch oven.

[RandomGuy]

i thought i would share a moment from my time in puerto rico
we did a remote mission into a mountain town called morovis, with a local puerto rico aid group, they brought water cooked meals, including freshly slaughter young cows which one of the aid group donated, one of the residents let us use her covered patio area to set up as small clinic, we didn't see tons of patients, but those we did were extremely thankful,i hiked a steep rowdy road to see a diabetic with an infected foot , family did a great job caring for him, when we went to leave the entire community wanted to take photos with us, the elderly small woman who let us use her patio thanked each of us, she stood less than 5 feet, she came to me took my face in her hands ,and said" you are all gods angels. thank you for coming and taking care of our people", that moment will live with me for the rest of my life

Another first hand account.

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Remember PR? Still being FUCKED OVER by Repug FEMA

Puerto Rico: urgently needed tarps delayed by failed $30m Fema contract

Fema paid a newly created Florida company for tarps to help the thousands of people left homeless after Hurricane Maria, but the company couldn’t deliver

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/nov/28/puerto-rico-urgently-needed-tarps-delayed-by-failed-30m-fema-contract?CMP=share_btn_fb (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/nov/28/puerto-rico-urgently-needed-tarps-delayed-by-failed-30m-fema-contract?CMP=share_btn_fb)

[RandomGuy]

Remember PR? Still being FUCKED OVER by Repug FEMA

Puerto Rico: urgently needed tarps delayed by failed $30m Fema contract

Fema paid a newly created Florida company for tarps to help the thousands of people left homeless after Hurricane Maria, but the company couldn’t deliver

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/nov/28/puerto-rico-urgently-needed-tarps-delayed-by-failed-30m-fema-contract?CMP=share_btn_fb (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/nov/28/puerto-rico-urgently-needed-tarps-delayed-by-failed-30m-fema-contract?CMP=share_btn_fb)





http://i0.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/facebook/000/012/812/tarp-30198.jpg

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New data shows hurricane deaths in Puerto Rico could be 20 times higher than the government claims

Puerto Rican officials say only 55 people died from the storm. Researchers estimate more than 1,000 people did.

They found that in September 2017 — the month that Maria hit — there were 518 more deaths than the recent historical average for September and 567 more deaths in October 2017 than the recent historical average for October.

That’s a total of 1,085 deaths likely linked to the hurricane.

And given that widespread power outages have continued into November, the number of indirect deaths from the hurricane is probably higher still.

The finding supports reports from several media outlets, including Vox (https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2017/10/11/16424356/puerto-rico-official-hurricane-maria-death-toll), CNN, and BuzzFeed, that found hundreds of hurricane-related deaths that were not included in the official count.

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/11/29/16623926/puerto-rico-death-toll-hurricane-maria-count (https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/11/29/16623926/puerto-rico-death-toll-hurricane-maria-count)

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Months After Storm, Puerto Rico Stares Down Another Blow: The Tax Bill

The final legislation negotiated by the House and Senate (https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/15/us/politics/republican-tax-bill.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=first-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news) would treat mainland companies in Puerto Rico, a United States commonwealth, as it does those in foreign countries, and

impose a 12.5 percent tax on income they receive from intellectual property.

The bankrupt Puerto Rican government, which lobbied intensely for special tax treatment, fears that the bill could endanger crucial industries and thousands of jobs on the island.

“This is really a devastating blow for Puerto Rico, in our greatest time of need,” Gov. Ricardo A. Rosselló said on Friday.

Mainland companies — mostly in medical manufacturing — make up about a third of Puerto Rico’s tax base, and directly or indirectly employ about 250,000 Americans, according to the Rosselló administration.

The tax on intellectual property, which includes patents and design rights, would make Puerto Rico less attractive for business,

compared with foreign countries that offer lower tax rates for manufacturers,

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/16/us/tax-bill-puerto-rico.html?partner=rss&emc=rss

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Report slams local, US hurricane response in Puerto Rico

"There was a failure of leadership and a failure to appreciate the magnitude of the situation and the need for extraordinary action by U.S. officials,"

Eric Schwartz, the group's president and a former U.S. assistant secretary of state for population, refugees and migration, said in a phone interview.

"These people are our fellow Americans. The response of the federal authorities should have been and should be much stronger than it was and much stronger than it is."

Officials with the U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency (http://abcnews.go.com/topics/news/us/federal-emergency-management-agency.htm) did not return a request for comment Sunday.

Puerto Rico (http://abcnews.go.com/topics/news/puerto-rico.htm) is still struggling to recover from the Sept. 20 storm that killed dozens of people and caused up to an estimated $95 billion in damage during a 12-hour rampage across the island with winds of up to 154 mph.

Power generation is currently at 69 percent of normal, and 5 percent of utility customers still don't have water service.

Nearly 600 people remain in shelters, and more than 130,000 have left for the U.S. mainland.

http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/report-slams-local-us-hurricane-response-puerto-rico-51847896

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A tax bill written by Disaster Shock Capitalists who are swooping into buy up everything cheap, including schools

The GOP’s Tax Bill Kicks Puerto Rico When It’s Down

The island is getting slapped with new taxes as it drowns in debt and tries to recover from a catastrophic hurricane

As the U.S. island struggles to climb out of a $70 billion debt crisis (http://www.businessinsider.com/puerto-rico-debt-2017-10) and recover from the devastation of Hurricane Maria,

House Republicans voted Tuesday to impose a 12.5 percent tax on intellectual property income made by U.S. companies operating on the island and

a minimum 10 percent tax on their profits in Puerto Rico. The Senate passed the measure early Wednesday.

That means that businesses with operations in Puerto Rico will pay higher taxes than their counterparts on the U.S. mainland, which puts industries and jobs on the island at risk.

The provision, tucked into the GOP’s tax reform bill, was

intended to stop American companies from dodging federal taxes by shifting their profits overseas. :lol :lol :lol

But because the U.S. tax code treats Puerto Rico as a foreign territory, business operations on the island will get hit.

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/puerto-rico-tax-bill-nydia-velazquez_us_5a39938de4b06d1621b042f8?utm_medium=e mail&utm_campaign=__TheMorningEmail__122017&utm_content=__TheMorningEmail__122017+CID_1f4fcd0d fc2338d23b1a56afb732ed17&utm_source=Email%20marketing%20software&utm_term=does%20include%20a%20tax%20hike&ncid=newsltushpmgnews__TheMorningEmail__122017

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Sin Luz

Life Without Power

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2017/national/puerto-rico-life-without-power/?tid=sm_tw&utm_term=.3ebd929aa27d

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Things in Puerto Rico continue to worsen as police chief resigns amid increased killings (https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/1/10/1731579/-Things-in-Puerto-Rico-continue-to-worsen-as-police-chief-resigns-amid-increased-killings)

Things appear to be getting worse by the day in Puerto Rico.

Of course, if you weren’t on the island you wouldn’t know that, given that the media has pretty much forgotten about this massive humanitarian crisis.

Wednesday marked 112 days since Hurricane Maria made landfall and, to date, only 55 percent of the island has power restored.

Food, gas and medical supplies remain scarce with no answers as to when full power and services will be restored.

the police chief resigned (http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/puerto-rico-police-chief-resigns-killings-absences-spike-52221820) amid controversy and an increase in the murder rate.

Puerto Rico's first female police chief resigned Monday amid a spike in killings while thousands of officers continue to call in sick to protest the lack of overtime pay.

The island's governor said retired military officer Michelle Hernandez was stepping down after one year of overseeing one of the largest police departments under U.S. jurisdiction. [...]

Puerto Rico had recorded 23 killings as of Sunday, compared with nine in the same period last year, police spokesman Carlos Rivera told The Associated Press.

This year's killings have occurred across the U.S. territory and include a triple homicide in recent days, he said.


This is downright frightening. For almost four months, Puerto Ricans have been without stable sources of food, electricity, water and medicine.

Schools are operating without power.

There is a mass exodus of people leaving the island.

We still don’t know exactly how many people have died because of the storm and the government says it’s 64, though other data suggests it’s over 1,000 (https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/12/08/us/puerto-rico-hurricane-maria-death-toll.html?_r=0).

And now police officers are not showing up to work because they aren’t being paid and there is a spike in killings.

This is the stuff of fictional dystopian movies and books—except it’s real life and Puerto Ricans are suffering and dying.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/1/10/1731579/-Things-in-Puerto-Rico-continue-to-worsen-as-police-chief-resigns-amid-increased-killings?detail=emaildkre

Amazing how Trash's deep empathy for his fellow citizens has failed.

[boutons_deux]

Trash gives himself 10 over 10 for his PR recovery

112 days after Maria, a school's lights get turned on

https://www.facebook.com/NowThisPolitics/videos/1775650245858425/

[boutons_deux]

White supremacist Repug colonial rulers inflict more oppression on brown/black non-English speaking US citizens.

FEMA and US Treasury decide to 'help' Puerto Rico by withholding a billion-dollar emergency loan (https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/1/18/1733852/-FEMA-and-US-Treasury-decide-to-help-Puerto-Rico-by-withholding-a-billion-dollar-emergency-loan)

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/1/18/1733852/-FEMA-and-US-Treasury-decide-to-help-Puerto-Rico-by-withholding-a-billion-dollar-emergency-loan?detail=emaildkre

Are the Repug Feds loaning, or giving, recovery funds toTX ?

[boutons_deux]

FEMA Contractor Failed To Deliver Millions Of Meals To Puerto Rico: Lawmakers

Democrats say documents show a company contracted to bring 30 million meals to the island delivered just 50,000.

Democrats on the House Oversight Committee cited records that showed the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)

awarded a nearly $156 million contract

to a one-person company

that delivered just 50,000 of the expected 30 million meals.

The lawmakers said documents showed the company,

Atlanta-based Tribute Contracting, had a history of problems handling smaller government contracts worth less than $100,000 and

had been barred from government work until 2019.

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/fema-contractor-failed-to-deliver-millions-of-meals-to-puerto-rico-lawmakers_us_5a7a0d40e4b06505b4e8cfbe?utm_medium=e mail&utm_campaign=__TheMorningEmail__020718&utm_content=__TheMorningEmail__020718+CID_46d1566a f07188166f368e30cd71347a&utm_source=Email%20marketing%20software&utm_term=only%20managed%20to%20deliver%2050000&ncid=newsltushpmgnews__TheMorningEmail__020718

Repug MISgovernance, what's not to ridicule?

typifies what it's like to be non-white and non-English-speaking American in white supremacist Repug AmeriKKKa

[boutons_deux]

As FEMA ends its temporary housing program, displaced Puerto Rican families face homelessness (https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/2/20/1743096/-As-FEMA-ends-its-temporary-housing-program-displaced-Puerto-Rican-families-face-homelessness)

the priorities of those in leadership and in the administration.

In the case of assisting Puerto Ricans in the months after Hurricane Maria,

the government and FEMA seem to have no problem abruptly ending food aid (https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/1/30/1737219/-Despite-many-people-who-still-need-assistance-FEMA-plans-to-end-food-and-water-aid-to-Puerto-Rico)and rendering thousands of families on the mainland homeless—

even after a botched recovery effort and the hiring of several corrupt contractors.
the funding for nearly 4,000 displaced Puerto Rican families who have been provided with temporary shelter expires in March.News that the program was ending came as a swift blow. Some families got less than 24 hours notice that they had to vacate the hotel.

Democrat Dannel Malloy, doesn’t understand why the federal government is abandoning people in this way at a time of great need.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/2/20/1743096/-As-FEMA-ends-its-temporary-housing-program-displaced-Puerto-Rican-families-face-homelessness

They're brown, their Catholic, they don't speak English, so Trash and his racist xenophobes so "fuck 'em"

[boutons_deux]

Trash gets 9/10 for fucking over American Puerto Ricans

Treasury cuts $4.7B disaster relief loan to $2B

https://www.yahoo.com/news/puerto-rico-treasury-cuts-5b-185158570.html

W Buffett just pocketed $29B in cut taxes

[boutons_deux]

Months Before Winning $300 Million Puerto Rico Contract, Whitefish Energy Was On Shaky Financial Grounds

In newly obtained emails, local officials questioned the company’s finances as it sought to build a transformer manufacturing plant near Whitefish, Montana.

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/whitefish-energy-financials_us_5aa30036e4b086698a9dd3eb?utm_medium= email&utm_campaign=__TheMorningEmail__031318&utm_content=__TheMorningEmail__031318+CID_c6bff6c9 1c7a47bba6cf5d225cfdad87&utm_source=Email%20marketing%20software&utm_term=HuffPost&ncid=newsltushpmgnews__TheMorningEmail__031318

I'm pretty sure, Repugs being corrupt, grafty sonsofbitches, stinky Zinke had a hand in giving his hometown boys the PR contract.

[boutons_deux]

Trash and his FEMA are fucking LYING


Harvard study estimates thousands died in Puerto Rico due to Hurricane Maria

At least 4,645 people died

as a result of Hurricane Maria and its devastation across Puerto Rico last year,

according to a new Harvard study released Tuesday, an estimate that far exceeds the

official government death toll, which stands at 64.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/harvard-study-estimates-thousands-died-in-puerto-rico-due-to-hurricane-maria/2018/05/29/1a82503a-6070-11e8-a4a4-c070ef53f315_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.5f8e7cc40f2e&wpisrc=nl_most&wpmm=1

"Y'all are poor, brown, Catholic, non-English-speaking, not real Americans, so fuck you.

The oligarchy needs $Ts more wealth than you PRs need help.

We're the White Mail Protestant Nativist Supremacy. This is how we roll."

[boutons_deux]

Decrying Trump's 'Cruel' Refusal to Act, Warren and Markey Unveil Bill to Help Puerto Ricans Left Homeless by Maria

With a new hurricane season beginning, "this can't wait," says Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.)

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/06/01/decrying-trumps-cruel-refusal-act-warren-and-markey-unveil-bill-help-puerto-ricans

[ducks]

YEP SHE IS RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT 2020
She is trying to buy minority votes. She could careless about them. SEE TRACK RECORD WITH DEMORCRACTS
UNLIKE trump more minorities are back to work and making more

Amazing to me how much the USA is suppose to send to other countries

Their gov is corrupt that is why they are broke. IF they want money it should be handled with different people in charge with check and balances.

[ducks]

Decrying Trump's 'Cruel' Refusal to Act, Warren and Markey Unveil Bill to Help Puerto Ricans Left Homeless by Maria

With a new hurricane season beginning, "this can't wait," says Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.)

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/06/01/decrying-trumps-cruel-refusal-act-warren-and-markey-unveil-bill-help-puerto-ricans







Help people who want to live on island and known to destroy land and houses? They enjoy the left sytle and MAKE STUPID choices they should pay not the USA TAXPAYERS

Plenty of land and jobs in Wyoming. Lots of buiding going on not enough workers

[ducks]

warren biden and sanders all running would be perfect:rollin

[Blake]

Help people who want to live on island and known to destroy land and houses? They enjoy the left sytle and MAKE STUPID choices they should pay not the USA TAXPAYERS

Plenty of land and jobs in Wyoming. Lots of buiding going on not enough workers

So many stupid points in just 4 sentences. Bravo

[Spurminator]

Help people who want to live on island and known to destroy land and houses? They enjoy the left sytle and MAKE STUPID choices they should pay not the USA TAXPAYERS

Plenty of land and jobs in Wyoming. Lots of buiding going on not enough workers

Wow, not only are you an idiot, you're also a callous piece of shit. What made you such a sad person, ducks?

[ducks]

I hate bailing out people who make stupid mistakes
they will not learn from it if they always get bailed out.
Everyone knows their gov their is corrupt and bankrupt before the hurricane but they are playing that card for a handout.
Why do they deserve a handout? Because they are humans? What above the average joe where is his handout? Or just people who claim they need it should be bailed out by the other people in the usa.

[Spurminator]

I hate bailing out people who make stupid mistakes
they will not learn from it if they always get bailed out.
Everyone knows their gov their is corrupt and bankrupt before the hurricane but they are playing that card for a handout.
Why do they deserve a handout? Because they are humans? What above the average joe where is his handout? Or just people who claim they need it should be bailed out by the other people in the usa.

Doubling down on piece of shit. Saying it's a stupid mistake for Puerto Ricans to live in Puerto Rico is like saying it's a stupid mistake that you were born missing an entire section of your brain.

You're a bitter asshole and you should reflect on what happened in your life that made you this way.

[Blake]

I hate bailing out people who make stupid mistakes

Yeah those dumbasses should have moved the island before the hurricane hit

[ducks]

Those dumbasses should have looked at weather patterns before they moved. If they did they did not care they wanted the party life

[ducks]

Like me moving to Alaska and then wanting a handout because it is cold

[spurraider21]

this is nuts tbh

[Spurminator]

Those dumbasses should have looked at weather patterns before they moved. If they did they did not care they wanted the party life


Like me moving to Alaska and then wanting a handout because it is cold

You're right, Puerto Rico was an uninhabited island until 20 years ago when people moved there en masse without checking Weatherbug first.

4,600 people are dead. Most of them were born in Puerto Rico. These are US Citizens.

You're a sad piece of shit.

[Blake]

Those dumbasses should have looked at weather patterns before they moved. If they did they did not care they wanted the party life

Seriously, no joking, you're the literal definition of retarded.

[boutons_deux]

Trump just bragged about his response to Puerto Rico amid skyrocketing death toll

Today, Trump addressed the U.S. Coast Guard and attempted to paper off his heinous Puerto Rico legacy by lauding the Coast Guard’s response to Hurricane Maria.

While the brave men and women of the Coast Guard did strive to save lives, they were handicapped by an administration that refused to deliver the proper supplies and attention to the disaster zone.


“Last season, during the Hurricanes,

I was in Texas,

I was in Florida,

I was in Puerto Rico. :lol tossing paper products! :lol

I saw the work that you did under the most adverse conditions.

And I’ve said this to a lot of people,

I don’t think any brand has gained more momentum or

gained any more of anything than the brand of the United States Coast Guard,” said Trump.


Trump is attempting to whitewash his own legacy by praising those whom he failed to properly aid. He does a grave disservice to the Americans who died in Puerto Rico.

https://washingtonpress.com/2018/06/01/trump-just-bragged-about-his-response-to-puerto-rico-amid-skyrocketing-death-toll-watch/ (https://washingtonpress.com/2018/06/01/trump-just-bragged-about-his-response-to-puerto-rico-amid-skyrocketing-death-toll-watch/)

[ducks]

You're right, Puerto Rico was an uninhabited island until 20 years ago when people moved there en masse without checking Weatherbug first.

4,600 people are dead. Most of them were born in Puerto Rico. These are US Citizens.

You're a sad piece of shit.

sad but their parents made their choices and had them their
feel bad for the kids but lets take care of the world USA

what about all the kids starving to death in Africa more then 4600 died this year
WHERE IS YOUR THREAD ON THAT

[spurraider21]

sad but their parents made their choices and had them their
feel bad for the kids but lets take care of the world USA

what about all the kids starving to death in Africa more then 4600 died this year
WHERE IS YOUR THREAD ON THAT
"America First" bad now

[Spurminator]

sad but their parents made their choices and had them their
feel bad for the kids but lets take care of the world USA

what about all the kids starving to death in Africa more then 4600 died this year
WHERE IS YOUR THREAD ON THAT

Puerto Ricans are US Citizens. The United States aids areas of its country that are devastated by hurricanes, whether it's Texas, Louisiana or Puerto Rico. We don't harp on why they chose to live there like a bunch of naive elitists. Except for true pieces of shit like you, that is.

Next time a natural disaster ravages Africa and kills almost 5000 people I absolutely expect the US to help along with other developed countries. What will your reaction be? That you don't want your precious tax dollars going to people who chose to move to Africa?

Seriously, go fuck yourself. You are a garbage human.

[monosylab1k]

Help people who want to live on island and known to destroy land and houses? They enjoy the left sytle and MAKE STUPID choices they should pay not the USA TAXPAYERS

Plenty of land and jobs in Wyoming. Lots of buiding going on not enough workers

Dumbfucks in red state Florida live there despite the hurricanes, fuck them too, right? Fuck anybody who chooses to live in Houston, right?

Oh wait I forgot, white people live there.

[clambake]

it's unbelievable how far up his ass you are, ducks.

[boutons_deux]

Dumbfucks in red state Florida live there despite the hurricanes, fuck them too, right? Fuck anybody who chooses to live in Houston, right?

Oh wait I forgot, white people live there.

https://goo.gl/maps/Zn8iuzQGNy82

Elevation? can't be more than several feet.

[ducks]

people should plan on disasters
I do
it is called a savings account.
Why should the taxpayers help other ones out? If you want to donate or give them directly. The gov does not need to collect money to bail anyone out in any country.
People that make money and want to can fin but do not force PEOPLE TO PAY FOR THEM.

Why should people be forces to suffer and have to pay higher taxes to bail people out of disasters?


If other countries want the usa help then wipe our debt we owe them out first and then make sure the trade deals are good.
GO AHEAD AND PREACH SPREAD THE WEALTH SPREAD THE WEALTH
make them earn it they will appreciate it more and take care of it better!

[ducks]

Dumbfucks in red state Florida live there despite the hurricanes, fuck them too, right? Fuck anybody who chooses to live in Houston, right?

Oh wait I forgot, white people live there.

I DO NOT BELIEVE IN BAILOUTS for ANY COLOR OF SKIN

FAMILY SHOULD TAKE OF FAMILY

[ducks]

"America First" bad now

something has to give thanks to the national debt for bailing other countries out

[monosylab1k]

I DO NOT BELIEVE IN BAILOUTS for ANY COLOR OF SKIN

FAMILY SHOULD TAKE OF FAMILY

What about people whose family all died in the hurricane?

[ducks]

so they have no relatives anywhere else in the world?
LOL RIGHT..

they should have friends someplace they can turn to or get a loan from the bank
NOT A FREE HANDOUT

[clambake]

What about people whose family all died in the hurricane?

fuck them, they knew what they were getting in to.

[monosylab1k]

so they have no relatives anywhere else in the world?
LOL RIGHT..

they should have friends someplace they can turn to or get a loan from the bank
NOT A FREE HANDOUT
What if all their friends died in the hurricane too?
How do they get a loan from the bank when everything they own has been destroyed in the hurricane?

[clambake]

they shouldn't even bury them. leave them out as a reminder.

[ducks]

THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS SOMETHING FREE
SOMEONE PAID FOR IT THRU HARD WORK AND HAND TO GIVE MONEY TO PAY FOR IT THAT THEY COULD HAVE SPENT ON THEMSELVES OR DONATE IT TO A CAUSE THEY CHOISE TO

[ducks]

they shouldn't even bury them. leave them out as a reminder.

it is called life insurance and they would have money to bury them
does not cost a lot to crematie them

[clambake]

THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS SOMETHING FREE

air is free

[ducks]

they shouldn't even bury them. leave them out as a reminder.

would cause diseases and kill more people !

[ducks]

air is free

not an enhaler

[clambake]

it is called life insurance and they would have money to bury them
does not cost a lot to crematie them

no, leave them out to rot to remind all those stupid people.

[Spurminator]

THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS SOMETHING FREE
SOMEONE PAID FOR IT THRU HARD WORK AND HAND TO GIVE MONEY TO PAY FOR IT THAT THEY COULD HAVE SPENT ON THEMSELVES OR DONATE IT TO A CAUSE THEY CHOISE TO

Going to all caps isn't going to make you look less like a piece of shit.

[monosylab1k]

THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS SOMETHING FREE
SOMEONE PAID FOR IT THRU HARD WORK AND HAND TO GIVE MONEY TO PAY FOR IT THAT THEY COULD HAVE SPENT ON THEMSELVES OR DONATE IT TO A CAUSE THEY CHOISE TO

So everyone should pay a toll at every stop sign and citizens should just hire private traffic cops for every intersection. No free traffic light handouts for us.

[clambake]

would cause diseases and kill more people !

good. it would kill the remaining moochers. stupid moochers.

[ducks]

so trying to help 365 million people instead of less then 5k people is shit


LOL

[ducks]

So everyone should pay a toll at every stop sign and citizens should just hire private traffic cops for every intersection. No free traffic light handouts for us.

people are paying taxes for the traffic light already NOT FREE

[Spurminator]

Look, if you choose to live in an area where the government is letting the remains of the dead rot to make a statement, that's your fault and WHY SHOULD MAKE MY FAMILY SUFFER BY PAY MORE TAXES TO HELP YOU

[monosylab1k]

so trying to help 365 million people instead of less then 5k people is shit


LOL

NO HANDOUTS EVER

[clambake]

goddamn you're stupid.

[ducks]

NO HANDOUTS EVER

correct

[Spurminator]

so trying to help 365 million people instead of less then 5k people is shit


LOL

What do you need help for, you pathetic mooch? The brain damage?

[monosylab1k]

people are paying taxes for the traffic light already NOT FREE

People pay taxes for hurricane relief too, dumbass :lmao

[ducks]

What do you need help for, you pathetic mooch? The brain damage?

never got a handout from gov ever

[Spurminator]

never got a handout from gov ever

Who said anything about handouts? Disaster relief isn't a handout, it's a legitimate government expense. Like roads. Do you live near a road?

Quit your bullshit, you're embarrassing yourself. Tuck your tail between your legs, log off, and go talk to a therapist to figure out how you turned into such a piece of shit.

[ducks]

Disaster relief isn't a handout, it's a legitimate government expense

WHO IS PAYING FOR IT
IS IT THE STATE OR FEDERAL
THE state should have insurance for the roads with natural disasters
that would be a legitmate expense

[ducks]

taxes could be lower if Disaster relief is not budgeted. I bet the budgeted item is over 1 billion:claw

[Spurminator]

Disaster relief isn't a handout, it's a legitimate government expense

WHO IS PAYING FOR IT
IS IT THE STATE OR FEDERAL
THE state should have insurance for the roads with natural disasters
that would be a legitmate expense

Have you even heard of FEMA?

[Spurminator]

I take it back ducks, I think you have some really good ideas and you should run for office as a Republican ASAP.

[clambake]

get rid of fema.

[spurraider21]

my takeaway is ducks wants to live with one of those uncontacted tribes in brazil or new guinea where there is no government

[Spurminator]

my takeaway is ducks wants to live with one of those uncontacted tribes in brazil or new guinea where there is no government

I hear they have great life insurance policies.

[spurraider21]

seriously though, i'm reading his recent posts in this thread an the concept of civilization/society is lost on him

[ducks]

get rid of fema.

yep
they sit up their making 60 an hour drinking their coffee and wanting medical LIFE DENTAL insurance
and a big retirement plan
plus bail out humans that do not plan ahead on your dime

[ducks]

my takeaway is ducks wants to live with one of those uncontacted tribes in brazil or new guinea where there is no government

people survived without big gov people

why do you need a big to spread the wealth:rollin

[Winehole23]

we screwed em hard.

they could not have planned well enough for that.

[Winehole23]

plus which, they is us.

Puerto Ricans are US citizens.

[ducks]

chapter 13 or chapter 7 is better then forcing 365 million to suffer and give them more money and not have enough to plan ahead
not like the Houston football playing is not raising money to bail them up

[ducks]

plus which, they is us.

Puerto Ricans are US citizens.

better their then other countries but why bail anyone out
make them learn!

[Winehole23]

I'm sorry who's forcing 365 million to suffer? Puerto Rico?

are you delusional?

[spurraider21]

better their then other countries but why bail anyone out
make them learn!
do you understand the concept of civilization/society?

[ducks]

according to you
I pay taxes to help you out because you can not take of yourself. I am against free welfare if I need something I pay for it. You think if I do not want to bail out a USA citizen I am a shit can. I just happen to like to give money to whom I choice to and not force to.
I do not expect something from the gov and others should not either. The entilement concept has gotten this country into a mess. What makes them so special they deserve it. What have they done? Oh wait they were born in the USA so they are legal USA citizens.

[spurraider21]

according to you
I pay taxes to help you out because you can not take of yourself. I am against free welfare if I need something I pay for it. You think if I do not want to bail out a USA citizen I am a shit can. I just happen to like to give money to whom I choice to and not force to.
I do not expect something from the gov and others should not either. The entilement concept has gotten this country into a mess. What makes them so special they deserve it. What have they done? Oh wait they were born in the USA so they are legal USA citizens.
that didn't answer my question

[ducks]

civilization

an advanced state of human society, in which a high level of culture, science, industry, and government has been reached.
those people or nations that have reached such a state.
any type of culture, society, etc., of a specific place, time, or group:

the act or process of civilizing, as by bringing out of a savage, uneducated, or unrefined state, or of being civilized:
Rome's civilization of barbaric tribes was admirable.
cultural refinement; refinement of thought and cultural appreciation:
The letters of Madame de Sévigné reveal her wit and civilization.
cities or populated areas in general, as opposed to unpopulated or wilderness areas:
The plane crashed in the jungle, hundreds of miles from civilization.
modern comforts and conveniences, as made possible by science and technology:

[Winehole23]

Puerto Rico is our country. ducks.

[clambake]

Puerto Rico is our country. ducks.

yeah, the needy step child.

[Winehole23]

MAKING 365 MILLION SUFFER

[ducks]

Puerto Rico is our country. ducks.

so what
I said it was better bailing out USA THEN franCE OR ANOTHER COUNTRY

[clambake]

this could be fixed on the cheap.


how much is a nuke?

[Winehole23]

don't give him any ideas!

[TeyshaBlue]

Ducks is just breathlessly stupid. I've never seen anything like it. He almost makes spurtacular seem lucid.


Almost.

[ducks]

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