U.S. militarizes relief campaign
Posted on 10/09/2017 5:55:59 AM PDT by markomalley
As U.S. soldiers Sunday handed out dozens of boxes of emergency food and water rations in this coastal town, a federal relief official pronounced himself satisfied.
“They seem pretty happy right now. I think it’s going great,” said Patrick Hernandez, assistant administrator for field operations for the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
Just a few feet away, Serafin Roman looked through cyclone fencing at the distribution scene and offered a radically different view: “It’s nasty. People are desperate. They got no water.... Some people are starving.”
The scene put a vivid spotlight on the gap between some government views of relief efforts for Hurricane Maria, and a somewhat testier view on the street. In some corners of Puerto Rico, deep into the third week of recovery efforts, a smattering of Puerto Ricans said they feel forgotten and vulnerable. Residents and city officials often tell drastically different stories about the frequency of food distribution.
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A necessary step, to be sure
Are people really starving there? I don’t watch the media, but I find it hard to believe people are starving, except perhaps people who might already have been close to it depending on how many of them there were before the hurricane.
It wouldn’t surprise me if you see 500,000 of the 3.4-million...pack up between now and end of December, and another 500,000 throughout 2018....all leaving.
I can understand issues with water, but in the pictures I saw, I saw no evidence of starving people.
They are way too lazy to pack up!!!!
Don’t expect any gratitude to God for sparing their lives or to US taxpayers who are expected to feed them and rebuild infrastructure that their own government had allowed to decay. They hadn’t had a hurricane for 85 years, so the residents of an island in the Atlantic hurricane corridor stupidly thought they were immune.
The sooner we can dump this liability, the better.
To bypass the “not for prime time newsfolks”, does someone know the non-ssb shortwave frequencies being broadcast from Puerto Rico??
If I’m sitting in Central Louisiana, and getting the English-language broadcast from Havana, I should be able to get the transmission from PR. Donchathink?
The left wing Herald has been in the Dem party back pocket for decades .
They are aligned with the Dade county Dems campaigning to get there Mayor set up as Gov .
Who knows what to believe but the power grid is a disaster
U.S. militarizes relief campaign
What they wanted all along.
The massive immigration of Puerto Rican USA citizens from the island of Puerto Rico to the USA “stateside” states “NY, NH, Fl, etc.” that began in earnest in the late 1940s has resulted in the drainage of “island” Puerto Rican talents, ambitions, dreams and bright futures.
The devastating Democrat political party has been an economic death knell to this magnificent island for many years, forcing millions of bread & butter Puerto Ricans to leave, looking for better opportunities and more fulfilling lives in the mainland United States.
Fast forward to today, and we all clearly witness the total failures the Democrat Party has burdened Puerto Rican and its remaining natives with. Bankruptcy, no power grid, poor communications, fair tourism, little economic growth, poverty, etc., etc.
However, My PR brothers and sisters, all is not lost in the homeland. Enter POTUS, Donald J. Trump. a savior for PR? HOW?
Puerto Rico should be the economic gem and diamond of the Caribbean Basin, in tourism, in jobs, in economic growth. The opportunity now exists to build PR into the powerful economic, business and tourism giant she can become through great economic leadership and rebuilding of her shattered island. It is as simple as that.
PRs, dump the Democrat low life that has gleefully, disabled you for all these years and breathe fresh life and energy into your island of paradise. Whether Commonwealth or USA State....MAKE PUERTO RICO GREAT AGAIN. Support your POTUS, Donald J. Trump. In your hour of vital need and aid, DJT was standing with you all, island and stateside!!! Your future destiny is in your own hands, Broom and dump the Democrat Party scum and vermin that has taken you down.
I would think that Puerto Rico should not try to go to the watering hole after this.
Re-establish our unique military base as a condition of refinancing their debt....and make it bigger base than ever.
If the relief wasn’t militarized, liberal ‘elites’ would complain it wasn’t effective. When it’s militarized they complain about that...
On Morning Joe (Speaking Hate to Power Show) Joe sets up a ‘let’s bitch about it’ question by implying hospitals in Puerto Rico still didn’t have power. The democrat shill wasn’t able to lie - - and had to admit ‘hospitals had power’... It’s just bitch bitch bitch...
SEARCH the www.arrl.com website.
IIRC, the Bob Heil website has links to amateur radio broadcasts from PR.
There was a link here (FR) citing ham radio updates.
Until the roads are repaired the requirement for aviation assets are going to be huge. People need to either evacuate from those areas or get used to eating MREs.
This is what should have been done in the corrupt morass of Louisiana in the aftermath of Katrina
Squinty, pig-eyed Joe Scarburro, caught lying again. Murdered any women lately, Joe?
I admit I don’t understand it, having never been to Puerto Rico except in a stopover for a plane change (unless you count going to Rosie Road on a det)
I have seen a bunch of pictures, but nobody starving. It is pretty clear to me that if there were people actually starving, it would be in the media’s interest to show that, as it is a cudgel they would use against a President they have openly declared war on.
I was just struck by someone saying they were starving, but those people look far from starving. I guess, in my mind, being hungry means going without food for a day or two.
Being starving means eating pets and bugs.
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