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I'll admit that I got caught up in the emotion of the issue, as I was there during and after the hurricane. We do know that many people died as a result of lack of medical facilities, but to blame it on anyone but the local PR government is a stretch.
Anyone who believes anything coming out of Harvard, or any other Ivy League school, likely believes in Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny as well.
The Washington Post modulates itself, surprisingly. I posted their first sensationalist article on the subject.
A lot of folks are still without power down there.
But hey, isn’t this what the Clinton Foundation — or the Bill, Hillary, and Chelsea Foundation — is all about?
They held a big fundraiser in NYC May 24. I bet the funds will ALL go to help restore power in P.R.!!
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The Left needs bodies to advance their agenda ... be it bodies in schools or pretend bodies in PR.
Meanwhile killing Country Music fans gets a yawn from them.
Courtesy ping. I got caught up in the hoopla. I should have checked my emotional attachment to the issue.
Original estimates were it set power restoration back 10 weeks. It was far longer than that and it's still incomplete.
Democrats tried to impugn and ridicule the company by saying there were only two employees.
Whitefish are contractors. They hire on a need for job basis.
Liberals took control of the narrative as seen in the Wikipedia entry:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitefish_Energy#Hurricane_Maria_controversy
Guess I missed the Harvard study on deaths in Haiti after the hurricane. Wonder why?
How big an emergency aid package did Trump propose, and Congress authorize, to patch up Puerto Rico? $20 billion?
And, during the immediate post-hurricane period, didn’t Puerto Rican truck drivers strike for higher pay while aid materiel from the US sat at the docks?
No wonder Trump got frustrated and said, “They want us to do everything for them.”
PR is a beautiful island, full of shitty people.
In no way are they a net benefit to the US.
When I read the Harvard report, I wondered why there was no coverage of mass funerals weeks after the storm.
Media used Hurricane Katrina to help destroy W. Bush. They wanted the same for this storm.
This is the same sort of approach they used to “tabulate” the number of Iraqis who died “because of UN sanctions” or during the Iraq war. They surveyed households and if a family said “We lost our father, Kalid,” that’s one. Then if the family next door (who are relatives) said “We lost our Uncle Kalid,” and then the family on the other side said “We lost our cousin Kalid,” they counted it as 3 different deaths. It’s clearly the same guy, but shh... Then they also compared the population to what it was some years ago, or the birthrate... it’s absolute bullcrap.
I am not buying one single word of this ‘repost’.
1. PR is a small country in acreage, so HERE could they hide/bury/handle 4600 or more BODIES?
2. If those ‘bodies’ were just laying out in the sun to rot, the stench would have been so bad no one could have ignored it.
3. There ACTUALLY WAS a competent POWER company on site in the first days after the hurricane..
Local politicians refused to pay them after a couple of weeks work had been done & they needed payment for their workers.
NO MONEY-—the power company left.
I would have left, also.
Keep in mind, when PR sent out for bids on doing this power work, they only had 3 bidders, and when it became know that 2 of them REQUIRED a DEPOSIT, PR wouldn’t pay a deposit, and only one power company was still in play.
After a “We are not paying for your serves’ standoff a couple of weeks after starting the job, they also bailed.
Find me ONE single company here on FR that would NOT have done the same.
I am only a one person bookkeeping service-—for over 38 years. IF a client didn’t pay me, I held onto their records & then demanded CASH—for which I would sign a receipt-—to get their stuff back.
I never did one more minute of work for them.
One of them was so bad, I passed around the word to blackball them.
Harvard is a joke like CNN, Washington Post and University of California system wide.
Harvard gives automatic A and B grades so that virtually everyone leaves with a high GPA. It is no longer anything by which to be influenced.
Power grid was antiquated; Obama did nothing for eight years to fix this outdated infrastructure.
plus....They were hit by TWO HURRICANES!
How is that Trumps fault? It’s not.
Beside Kenya, soetoro supposedly came from Harvard.
Harvard is inequal opportunity, affirmative action garbage.
Ptuh!