Repeal the Jones Act to speed Puerto Rico's Recovery

Which does not refute anything I said. I don't give a **** about the Jones Act. The Jones Act is not Puerto Rico's problem. Their people are.

 

Oh no I've been called a racist, I feel so ashamed and may never recover. Now I feel amazingly self conscious and worry "am I a racist?" "why do I hate Puerto Ricans?".

Just kidding.

I don't care what you call me, in fact, it makes me smile because I know you have nothing else.

I guess you can't answer any of the questions I posed in your own thread topic.

Par for the course, really.

 

Money is not everything

We need national security too

 

So you'd have no problem with US shipping being outsourced to foreign countries that are sailing their ships in and out of our ports?

Interesting.

 

Why would he need to suspend the Jones act for Texas and Florida?

Just more proof you either don't understand the Jones Act, or don't want to understand it.

 

Puerto Ricans served in Vietnam in huge numbers and are heavily represented on the Vietnam war memorial.

What does Puerto Rico have to do with national security?

The US invaded PR in July of 1898..

 

Puerto Ricans served in Vietnam in huge numbers and are heavily represented on the Vietnam war memorial.

What does Puerto Rico have to do with national security?

The US invaded PR in July of 1898..

 

PR isn't subject to the law.

Foreign shipping is.

The Jones Act does not impact PR in any way.

 

No one said PRs' didn't serve

Liberals need to get off this lie that PR is being mistreated

 

Emergency workers had a spa day in PR today getting pedicured in sterile areas meant for patients. Big stink. People are dying of bacterial infections because of the lack of potable water.. and the hospital ship with 800 beds only has 8 patients.

Its just poor management.

 

It absolutely does impact PR negatively and has for nearly 100 years..

 

Yet no one has complained about it in the last 100 years.

I'll ask you again.

How does it stop PR from getting shipments from the US.

How does it stop PR from getting shipments from foreign countries.

Here's another chance to ignore the questions and call me a racist again.

 

It does appear that PR is poorly managed

And maybe the culture is holding the people back

But they should be doing more to help themselvs

 

Do you know any Puerto Ricans? I do, and they tend to think of themselves as Puerto Ricans, not so much "US citizens". It's almost like the citizenship issue is more of a technicality. But they are certainly, in the minds of the ones I know, Puerto Ricans first and US citizens a distant second.

Also, and please try to be honest, did you ever give even one crap about the plight of Puerto Ricans before it became the political football du jour?

 

Of course I care about them..They are US citizens... just like people consider themselves Texans or Tarheels or Georgians or Floridians.

 

They still don't have electricity or phone service or potable water.

 

GOOD LORD: FBI Reviews Allegations Of Puerto Rican Officials Withholding Hurricane Relief.

“People call us and tell us some misappropriation of some goods and supplies by supposedly politicians, not necessarily mayors, but people that work for the mayors in certain towns,” FBI Special Agent Carlos Osorio told The Daily Caller Wednesday.

Osorio explained, “They’re supposedly withholding these goods and these supplies and instead of handing them out to people who really need them, [there are claims] that [local officials] are assigning them to their buddies first–people that have voted for them or people that contributed to their campaigns or what not.”

He added, “So what we’re doing is looking into these allegations. That I can tell you is happening. Again, I cannot say that we have any ongoing investigation. We’re just corroborating these allegations.”

I would hope there’s nothing to these allegations, but if there is...

 

That's not what he said.

 

I guess I haven't been around this forum long enough to have caught your many many previous posts criticizing the Jones Act, or your many many previous posts worrying about the plight of Puerto Ricans.....

 

Why would Trump want to help Puerto Rico? They're just brown people who vote for Democrats.

 

Actually they pay taxes but they can't vote unless they all move to Florida.

 

They don't have that when there isn't a hurricane.

 

More incorrect information.

They do not pay income taxes.

 

The Commonwealth government has its own tax laws and Puerto Ricans are also required to pay most US federal taxes, with the major exception being that most residents do not have to pay the federal personal income tax. In 2009, Puerto Rico paid $3.742 billion into the US Treasury.
Taxation in Puerto Rico - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxation_in_Puerto_Rico

 

Which means the only federal taxes they pay are Social security and medicare programs, both of which benefit the individual Puerto Rican far more than if they didn't pay it.