Its been a year since hurricane Maria, why are "displaced" Puerto Ricans still in "temporary" housing?
IMO, this underscores that Puerto Ricans are pure unappreciative, lazy trash who feel America owes them something.
This pissing ground of a island and its people are an unnecessary economic, political and social burden on our country.
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https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/hurricane-maria-puerto-rico-fema-displaced-families-temporary-housing-a8488266.html
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Its been a year since hurricane Maria, why are "displaced" Puerto Ricans still in "temporary" housing?
Because cleaning up Puerto Rico isn't a priority of the current President and his cabinet of buffoons? Because the same group of buffoons decided that after the hurricane was a GREAT time to call in PR's debt, knowing they wouldn't be able to pay it and thus the buffoon party could start replacing the government with a team of Wall Street big businessmen willing to start selling off the island to the highest bidder?
And no, I'm not kidding about that; that's EXACTLY what they're dong with PR: https://www.npr.org/2018/08/08/636603584/judge-rules-in-favor-of-puerto-rico-oversight-boards-authority
IMO, this underscores that Puerto Ricans are pure unappreciative, lazy trash who feel America owes them something.
Apparently, you didn't get the memo, but... Puerto Rico IS PART OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. When you take over a region and declare it a territory, that means you're responsible for things like this. So yeah, America kind of DOES owe them something...
America DOES owe them something, seeing as how they're American citizens. America owes them to help them get back on their feet, rebuild, and restore the island to pre-hurricane status, just like it has done with Florida and the Gulf Coast after hurricanes hit those areas. The government should help out all its people, not just the white, English-speaking ones.
"Its been a year since hurricane Maria, why are 'displaced' Puerto Ricans still in 'temporary' housing?"
Well, there's still "displaced" people here in Houston living in "temporary" housing, so why don't you just go fuck yourself?
After Irma Florida got the largest rescue flotilla in American history. (One of the few times Trump's bullshitting was accidentally accurate.) Power was restored in weeks. There was no question of whether or not to send help. Nobody even thought of mentioning a bill.
Puerto Rico got told to fuck itself. There was no food or clean water. Power was restored after six months, during which time Puerto Rico's creditors demanded the money that was going into rescue and restoration efforts be paid to them instead. They even wanted to shut of the power that had just been restored to the hospitals. Millions were spent lobbying against a temporary reprieve from Puerto Rico's debt to deal with the damage. Not a bailout - cash was not going to go in to Puerto Rico at all - a temporary delay on payments to bond holders. For no sane reason bankruptcy protection was stripped from Puerto Rico due to a legal loophole leftover from colonial sensibilities that is exactly as racist as you might expect. Puerto Rico was publicly demonized for the debt that directly resulted of the kind of corporate legal exemptions that get the GOP rock hard and a reliance on the sales of bonds - which were triple tax exempt - to substitute for tax revenue since those businesses did not pay the taxes needed to fund infrastructure like electricity, told to foot the bill itself in addition to paying off damned hedge funds before even essential services, and was overall left twisting in the wind with the reminder than even though America went through the trouble of taking Puerto Rico by force and the people there are legally American the United States will never see them as anything but non-white aliens and maybe a convenient tax shelter.
Oh... but Trump threw some paper towels around while on camera. Then immediately talked a whole lot of shit.
@2161329: Apparently there are sections of Puerto Rico that STILL don't have power or water. And it's been almost a year, and we're getting close to hurricane season again... Which means the island is likely to get hammered by another huge hurricane while still suffering from the aftereffects of the PREVIOUS one.
And now the "Junta" (Wall Street assholes) are claiming that the US courts have given them complete control over the island government... and they're using any money sent to help the island to instead pay themselves to cover PR's debt. Because they're a bunch of sleazy assholes in suits with no hearts.
@ DarkPhoenix
I think I'm going to vomit. That is shit you expect from the villains in an action movie. The kind where an American hero overthrows the "government" (usually self-declared at gunpoint) to the tune of cheers and "Democracy, fuck yeah!" I mean an unbearably hackneyed cliche drenched piece of cold war cultural posturing too cheesy to make it in the 80's that was salvaged from a vault for pure kitsch value.
But now the script's flipped and America is doing it to Americans. With fucking accountants doing the job usually relegated to third-world communist dictators as an example of the inherent corruption of their politics or drug lords to firmly establish there is nothing legitimate or humane about their rule seeing people as resources or playthings that would be contractually obligated to get riddled with bullet holes and exploded before the credits roll because evil must be punished.
America is in the grips of a cartoonish, racist, tyrant thoroughly compromised by a hostile foreign power whose own party and cabinet manages like a petulant toddler running around without supervision rather than opposing him because they're more afraid of losing political capital with the American people than they are of actively harming the country while Trump dismantles the Constitution and every single alliance America has ever built. And in the meantime the world is quibbling over soybeans making a joke of those same alliances that were supposed to have been established to keep any one world power from fucking the planet up singlehandedly. It's basically always been assumed it would be Russia. Well, half-right I guess.
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