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Cyrano

(15,041 posts)
Wed Sep 27, 2017, 09:49 AM Sep 2017

Puerto Rico is a desolate, desperate land

Millions of American citizens, Puerto Ricans, are trapped on an island with no water, food, homes, medical assistance, personal possessions, electricity, gasoline, or communications. They are in a deadly situation and, even though some small amount of help is there, most are left either praying for help, or giving up.

At this very moment, this is in the process of turning into one of the most immense disasters in American history.

Many of us can donate money, and/or supplies, but it's not nearly enough. What is needed is the full resources of the federal government to immediately dispatch planes and shiploads of water, food, shelters, doctors, medications, and tens of thousands of troops to help.

Yet, our so-called president is busy congratulating himself and giving himself an "A+" on how he's handled it. Thousands, perhaps tens of thousands could die in Puerto Rico because this grotesque monster in the White House is a total prick who doesn't give a shit about Puerto Rico.

This isn't about politics. This is about life and death. Yet, most of us are totally helpless to help Puerto Rico in a meaningful way. All we can do is watch this calamity unfold, while our president and politicians do nothing.

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Puerto Rico is a desolate, desperate land (Original Post) Cyrano Sep 2017 OP
I think it immediately should have been... LuckyCharms Sep 2017 #1
Maybe we all need to start calling our representatives! Madam45for2923 Sep 2017 #2
Has Raul Labrador (R-ID) weighed in yet? Zambero Sep 2017 #3
Don't know where he stands, however, Cyrano Sep 2017 #4

LuckyCharms

(17,441 posts)
1. I think it immediately should have been...
Wed Sep 27, 2017, 10:00 AM
Sep 2017

placed in the hands of the US military.

It may be too late now to stop the majority of the deaths.

Planning should have started before the hurricane even hit, and assets needed to be deployed the minute it was safe to do so.

Of course, that would have required some forward thinking by administration officials, which is probably not possible.

Zambero

(8,964 posts)
3. Has Raul Labrador (R-ID) weighed in yet?
Wed Sep 27, 2017, 10:10 AM
Sep 2017

A native Puerto Rican and immigration lawyer who before being elected to Congress in 2010 where he quickly took up with the Freedom Caucus, he is a tireless advocate for smaller gov't and lower taxes. Now a GOP candidate for Idaho governor. Wondering where Labrador stands today, in terms of what the federal government's role should be in dealing with an immediate humanitarian crisis of epic proportion, and for assistance in restoring essential infrastructure for Puerto Rico's 3.4 million American citizens?

Cyrano

(15,041 posts)
4. Don't know where he stands, however,
Wed Sep 27, 2017, 10:50 AM
Sep 2017

even if he cared about his heritage, there's really not much one congressional representative can do.

That aside, he's a Republican which means he has a political philosophy that is anti-human/humane. I have no idea whether he bought into the GOP's "philosophical" load of crap out of conviction or opportunism. And I don't know whether or not he's spoken out about Puerto Rico. If he has, no one has heard it as far as I know.

I repeat what I said in the OP. This is a matter of life and death. Politics shouldn't be a part of the survival of three and a half million people. Nonetheless, it seems that it is. And thousands may die as a result.

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