Jimmy Hoffa would be sooooo proud...
Posted on 10/01/2017 8:07:04 AM PDT by COUNTrecount
The reason for truck drivers not showing up? The Puerto Rican Teamsters Union, Frente Amplio, is refusing to move the product. Report: Puerto Rico Teamsters Union, “Frente Amplio”, Refuse to Deliver Supplies – Use Hurricane Maria as Contract Leverage…
Puerto Rican born and raised, Colonel Michael A. Valle (”Torch”), Commander, 101st Air and Space Operations Group, and Director of the Joint Air Component Coordination Element, 1st Air Force, responsible for Hurricane Maria relief efforts, has the following comment:
…They have the generators, water, food, medicine, and fuel on the ground, yet the supplies are not moving across the island as quickly as they’re needed.
“It’s a lack of drivers for the transport trucks, the 18 wheelers. Supplies we have. Trucks we have. There are ships full of supplies, backed up in the ports, waiting to have a vehicle to unload into. However, only 20% of the truck drivers show up to work. These are private citizens in Puerto Rico, paid by companies that are contracted by the government”.. (link)
The ports are so full of relief supplies they can’t fit any more on the available space. CNBC ground report confirms Colonel Valle’s ground report. WATCH:
(Excerpt) Read more at theconservativetreehouse.com ...
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxation_in_Puerto_Rico
On top of that, aren’t a majority of Puerto Ricans getting government handouts?
Our Government had everything in place to go into PR once the storm had passed. Puerto Rican leadership had no plans because they haven’t a clue how to do their jobs on a daily basis let alone a destructive force as this was.....they had nothing prepared to assist in this distribution of aid.....though the alarm went out weeks ahead.....even to clearing the debrie off the streets.
There s a video of a women crying out how the mayors are sabotoging the supplies getting through to the people....it was ore than alarmmng to hear...she was begging Trump to senm in the army!
All I had ever heard(mostly NOT on the news,but hearsay)was that the supplies were there,but not being distributed. Didn’t realize it was a Teamster problem. Yes,Trump does need to pull a “Reagan” & fire the whole bunch. It’s hard to believe they would do this in a time of crisis.
Bump
Cancel their licenses. What are they going to do? Go on strike?
Trump should send in federal troops to escort the truck drivers to their jobs at gun point. It’s been done before:
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/truman-orders-army-to-seize-control-of-railroads
I think it’s likely the Democrats are telling the Teamsters not to deliver in order to make Trump look bad.
I smell a Clinton and an Obama. Never let a crisis go to waste.
They should put out a public announcement letting the starving people know who is not doing their job. Hungry desperate people do not think of politics.
The little liars in the liberal MSM will totally ‘miss’ this story... And yeah, Chuck Todd will lead the union/liberal cover-up.
Carmen Yulin has been invited to participate in the FEMA meetings. She has refused to show up to coordinate and help her city… too busy doing Trump- bashing interviews with CNN:
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2017/09/30/fema-director-san-juan-mayor-refuses-to-participate-in-puerto-rico-unified-command-and-relief-efforts/
The major of Guaynabo has been to the FEMA meetings. He has been able to get help to his town because he has coordinated with the feds. He has criticized Yulin for refusing to go to the coordination meetings and for spending the time grandstanding before the cameras, instead of coordinating federal help to her constituents:
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/neighboring-mayor-praises-trump-says-san-juan-mayor-playing-politics-awol-at-meetings/article/2636185
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2017/09/30/shameful-san-juan-mayor-prioritizes-making-puerto-rico-crisis-political-president-trump-rightly-hits-back/
The ports are full of containers with food, water and supplies ready to be delivered. So is the airport in San Juan. Why is the stuff moving out so slowly?
Because 4 out of 5 local truckers, who belong to the Teamster’s union (Union Frente Amplio), are using this disaster to get back at the Governor for passing a law they did not like. They are basically on strike. They are bragging no cargo will move throughout PR for at least 2 years:
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2017/09/30/puerto-rico-teamsters-union-frente-amplio-refuse-to-deliver-supplies-use-hurricane-maria-as-contract-leverage/
Latest update from FEMA as of 9/302017 at 20:53 –
Urban Search and Rescue teams, working alongside local law enforcement, covered 100 percent of Puerto Rico and rescued 843 individuals.
Power was restored to 59 hospitals in Puerto Rico — these hospitals are operationally able to care for the patients they have or are receiving new patients. Efforts to restore the power grid on the island are on-going among the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, U.S. Department of Energy, and the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority.
Drinking water is being restored; 45 percent of customers now have potable water following testing by the Environmental Protection Agency and local officials.
Stores are opening with more than 60 percent of gas stations operating and providing fuel, and 49 percent of grocery and big box stores on the island now open.
Commodities, such as food and water, are being delivered and distributed daily to the municipality leadership.
The U.S. Coast Guard continues to assess ports, with 70 percent of ports open and conducting operations.
Efforts by the Federal Aviation Administration, along with the Department of Defense, enabled the Luis Munoz Marin International Airport (SJU) to accommodate daily commercial flights.
Work to clear debris continues; so far11 highways are cleared of debris and open.
There are now over 4,000 National Guard members on the ground, from 21 states and territories across the nation.
Shoot em on sight
By one report, 50% of the Puerto Rico National Guard refused to report for duty after being activated for the hurricane. I understand the desire to stay with your family and ensure their well-being, but a 50% no-show rate is unacceptable.
In short order, Trump should impose martial law and appoint a military governor, working in tandem with the island’s civilian governor. To his credit, the Democrat governor seems to have a clue, and would probably admit that he can’t break the logjam at the ports, with union thugs holding relief supplies hostage.
Under the short-term arrangement, the civilian governor continues his public duties and tries to work through the political issues (good luck with that). Real authority rests with the military governor, with carte blanche to do whatever is necessary to get relief supplies to the people who need it.
Next, mobilize all available military truck drivers from Army Transportation Command and other armed forces transport elements. Deploy them to Puerto Rico along with additional military police units and elements of the 82nd Airborne and 101st Airborne. Start moving supplies as we did in Iraq during the surge, under armed escort, with full security measures in place. Union thugs who attempt to disrupt the operation will be arrested—or shot.
Bingo, you are correct.
Now who's next in charge?
They couldn’t possibly believe in an afterlife in which they would be judged. Outcome of radical atheism.
M’Fu@kers, not truckers.
5.56mm
Jimmy Hoffa would be sooooo proud...
Difference is, I think, that the air traffic controllers all were federal employees. Not sure about these Teamsters types.
President Trump could break the Teamsters strike with a couple of tweets, and expose the MSM’s refusal to cover the truth of what’s happening, as well.
One thing’s for sure. In a place as small as Puerto Rico, you can bet that everyone on that island knows the real skinny.
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