[cll]

"Largest disaster aid package in FEMA history, approved 3 years after Hurricane Maria" - CB

[cll]

Puerto Rico Ping! Please Freepmail me if you want on or off the list.

[cll]

Hurricane-related courtesy ping/update. 3 years after Hurricane María, our power grid is still in a very precarious situation and fails constantly.

Thankfully it looks like we will be spared again this year, other than the two TS near misses, so that should give us more time for the rebuild.

Regards,

[Red Badger]

$13 Billion?

It will disappear faster than a NYC pickpocket....................

[1Old Pro]

Just make sure that the PR pols don’t commit fraud with this money, again.

[Seruzawa]

[Paladin2]

Only $4,000/peep

[Chode]

[rigelkentaurus]

Just no. Let the US Virgin Islands and PR go independent. They serve no valid us to the US. They are not States and should not be States. Let them go their own way like other Caribbean islands.

[Professional]

13 billion...

What percentage of that will be routed to the DNC, Mexican Drug Cartels, personal pockets of PR’can officials, corrupt business owners, ...?

We all know damn well that 2-4 years from now, there will be extensive reporting on how this project went over budget, needs more funding, mistakes were made...

[alternatives?]

I wonder if Spain ultimately won the Spanish American war.

[Yo-Yo]

Earlier, Vázquez tweeted that FEMA Administrator Pete Gaynor called her to give her the news that they had approved the multimillionbillion-dollar allocation.

[zeestephen]

Are residents of Puerto Rico required to pay the same federal taxes we pay in the 50 states?

[Little Ray]

I wonder how much of it will be stolen?

[Sergio]

You notice it says allocates. There is much crying an gnashing of teeth on the island because the Trump administration is making detailed budgets of how and when the monies will be spent and to whom the monies are going to.

This is a first for the the local politicians, they are used to being handed a big bag of cash to spend as they see fit. There are funds that were allocated right after hurricane Maria that have still not been dispersed because the local politicians won’t turn in a budget proposal.

[Izzatso]

“Largest disaster aid package in FEMA history, approved 3 years after Hurricane Maria”

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“Largest disaster aid package in FEMA history, approved 47 days before the election.”

Fixed.

[<1/1,000,000th%]

You can’t restore something that never existed. The Democrats’ mismanagement is being rewarded by building an electrical grid.

I’m betting most of the money disappears and Puerto Rico still doesn’t have an electrical grid.

[mrsmith]

Puerto Rico’s electric grid has always been garbage- from corruption.

If Trump has demanded, and gotten, guarantees of scientific improvement he deserves high praise.