Posted on 04/11/2018 6:02:52 AM PDT by cll
Edited on 04/11/2018 8:11:14 AM PDT by Sidebar Moderator. [history]
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP)
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This is all going to be pissed away by liberal corruption which is endemic in Puerto Rico. Just watch.
Just pissed away, and a lot of it is going to end up in people’s pockets.
Waiting for the redneck with a Wifi connection in his outhouse compain that we sgould help Americans first in 3...2...
Bonus - Some statement aviut how Puerto Ricans should learn to speak “American”
2x Bonus - A comment avout immigration
50,000 points - A comment about Mexico
Those in power are going to have to build larger warehouses to store all this money for themselves.
"The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody elseAdrian RogersWhenever somebody receives something without working for it somebody else has to work for it without receiving"
I suggest the electric co-op model should be put in place with elected representatives as is done in rural America.
Then, invite the US Navy back to the island. There would be no better example to get the attention of PR’s young people.
Better have a large group of “watch dogs” to oversee that project.
Bringing back the Navy would be a good start.
This is a wonderful opportunity to install a microgrid system. Local, distributed energy sources would be far more resilient in storms. It would reduce dependency on central generation and transmission.
I noticed the large number of roof top solar panels in Hawaii when we visited there.
Hawaii has some of the highest utility prices in America...
I am interested in discussing the issue instead of being sarcastic about it. And my issues don’t have anything to do with “a bunch of people who can’t speak American”.
My issue is handing out $16 Billion dollars with what is going to be likely zero oversight at worst, and at best oversight that is simply a bunch of forms filled out that fulfill a oversight requirement and will therefore be an open trough which will be used in ways the Leftist overseers in Puerto Rico see fit, in much the way stimulus money was handed out by the Obama administration.
This in a country that is trillions in the hole in debt already, and approaching a point where the interest being paid on the debt is going to approach our gross national product.
This money is going to be thrown down a rat hole. Now, you may be of the mind that this kind of money is being frittered away by everyone else in every state, why can’t Puerto Rico get some of that pie.
I am not of that mind.
What is going to happen to that money is as predictable as the day is long. Sure, some powerplants will be restored, some schools will be reopened, and the leftists running the government down there will pose with the cameras and talk about how they brought the bacon home, but the largest portion of that money is going to be pissed away, given by a country that cannot afford to waste more money.
That is my issue. Not crap about foreigners, Mexico, or whatever your gig is. I would say the same thing about money like that sent to any locality with an extensive and demonstrable history of corruption, including many of the localities in CONUS.
LOL
I don’t disagree with the fact they need help.
What I disagree with is giving them GRANTS to do this. Basically, “Here you go. Use it as you see fit.”
Yeah. That’s an idea. Here are your grants. In return we want this part of Puerto Rico with a 200 year binding guarantee. At least the US taxpayer would get more out of it than a couple of billion spent to fix a few things to provide leftist window dressing.
Block grants come with certain checks by the grantees, I think.
I suspect the panels are there because of the high energy prices, not the other way around. ;)
If the load isn’t there, no need to build supply.
We need to repair the place, help them get them to a functioning level then cut them lose. It’s a corrupt hellhole with a criminal culture ... The reason the hurricane damage was so bad was because like all hellhole cultures, the money for ‘the people’ was skimmed off by corrupt ‘elites’...
This on top of the billions already given. They’ve never had such nice homes and electricity across the island as they will after all this. And, of course, this taxpayer will never get a thank you card.
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