Trump slams Puerto Rico

No, they expect him to keep it from happening, and lots of people ARE starving, at least according to uh...those people. But what the hell do they know?

 

Yes, that's probably true. But for the sake of decency, shouldn't this kind of thing be called out by both sides?

 

BZZZT Wrong!

Your BLOTUS played golf and picked fights over NFL players while IGNORING the plight of AMERICANS on PR for an ENTIRE WEEK!

 

PR will NEVER recover as long as the Jones Act remains in place.

 

Say what?



Coast Guard continues hurricane response in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands
U.S. Coast Guard sent this bulletin at 09/25/2017 01:30 PM EDT


SAN JUAN -- The Coast Guard continues the hurricane response Monday in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands with 13 cutters and 10 aircraft.

Crews continue working to reopen affected ports and waterways to help the flow of humanitarian aid and resume maritime commerce. Reopening affected ports enables critical fuel supplies and commodities to flow into the port and be distributed throughout the affected regions. The Captain of the Port and his team will continue to work around the clock to get these port assessments completed and open as soon as it safe to do so.

"Our personnel, aircraft and cutter fleet have mobilized from throughout the Atlantic Area, bringing with them port security presence, humanitarian aid to augment our Federal Emergency Management Agency and Puerto Rico Emergency Management Agency partners, as well as command and control capabilities while our shore based units in Puerto Rico continues to reconstitute their infrastructure," said Rear Adm. Peter Brown, commander of Coast Guard's District Seven. "Our newest National Security Cutter James along with our fast response cutter fleet, medium endurance cutters and seagoing buoy tenders mobilized quickly following Hurricane Maria to fulfill these missions and will continue to do so."

Cutters responding are:

• Coast Guard Cutter Cypress - Homeported in Pensacola, Fla.
  
• Coast Guard Cutter Elm - Homeported in Atlantic Beach, N.C.
  
• Coast Guard Cutter Diligence - Wilmington, N.C.
  
• Coast Guard Cutter Donald Horsley - San Juan, Puerto Rico
  
• Coast Guard Cutter Forward - Portsmouth, Va.
  
• Coast Guard Cutter Heriberto Hernandez - San Juan, Puerto Rico
  
• Coast Guard Cutter James - Charleston, S.C.
  
• Coast Guard Cutter Joseph Napier - San Juan, Puerto Rico
  
• Coast Guard Cutter Richard Dixon - San Juan, Puerto Rico
  
• Coast Guard Cutter Venturous - St. Petersburg, Fla.
  
• Coast Guard Cutter Valiant - Jacksonville, Fla.
  
• Coast Guard Cutter Winslow Griesser - San Juan, Puerto Rico
  
• Coast Guard Cutter Yellowfin - San Juan, Puerto Rico

Multiple fixed wing and rotor wing aircraft have responded from Air Station Miami, Air Station Clearwater, Fla, Air Station Elizabeth City, N.C, and Air Station Borinquin, Puerto Rico.

The following is a port condition update for the ports in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

Guayanilla, Puerto Rico - Open

• Exception: Peerless Oil open w/ restrictions - Daylight transit only

Tallaboa, Puerto Rico - Open

Salinas, Puerto Rico - Open

San Juan Harbor, Puerto Rico - Open with restrictions

• Daylight transit Only

Fajardo, Culebra, Vieques - Open with restrictions

• Daylight transit only

Guayama, Puerto Rico - Open with restrictions

• Tug/barge only
• No deep draft vessels
• No vessels greater than 500 gross tons

St. Thomas, East and West Gregrie Channels, U.S. Virgin Islands - Open with restrictions

• Daylight transit only
• VIPA-Homeport Pier Virgin Island Port Authority
• VIP A- Sandfill
• WAPA – News Station
• Tropical Shipping
• Crowley

Charlotte Amalie, St. Thomas - Open with restrictions

• Daylight transit only

Red Hook, St. Thomas - Open with restrictions

• Daylight transit only

Cruz Bay, St. John - Open with restrictions

• Daylight transit only

Limetree Bay, St. Croix - Open with restrictions

• Daylight only
• Draft less than 45ft

Krause Lagoon, St. Croix - Open with restrictions

• Daylight only
• Draft less than 45ft

Frederiksted, St. Croix - Open with restrictions

• Daylight transit only

All other ports remain closed. Information can be found at the Coast Guard’s Homeport Web site.

For information on Hurricane Maria progress and hurricane preparedness, please visit the National Hurricane Center's web page.

For more breaking news follow us on Twitter and Facebook.



-USCG-

IMPORTANT LINKS

Official U.S. Coast Guard Hurricane Maria Response News

Official U.S. Coast Guard Hurricane Maria video and imagery

FEMA Hurricane Maria resources......snip~ <<<<< Courtesy of @Labouroflove

http://www.politicalforum.com/index.php?threads/trump-‘a-lot-of-shippers’-don’t-want-me-to-waive-the-jones-act-to-help-puerto-rico.515308/page-13

What was that? Whats that you said?

 

Because sociopaths stick together.

 

PR's private sector is fiscally hamstrung by the Jones Act.

 

Here is the condition of their ports. Do you think this Mayor should still be flapping her pie hole with 8 US Coast Guard Cutters there. Plus US Naval Ships? Do you think she should be about telling the truth?


Guayanilla, Puerto Rico - Open

• Exception: Peerless Oil open w/ restrictions - Daylight transit only

Tallaboa, Puerto Rico - Open

Salinas, Puerto Rico - Open

San Juan Harbor, Puerto Rico - Open with restrictions

• 
  
• Daylight transit Only

Fajardo, Culebra, Vieques - Open with restrictions

• Daylight transit only

Guayama, Puerto Rico - Open with restrictions

• Tug/barge only
• No deep draft vessels
• No vessels greater than 500 gross tons.....snip~

Why is the MS Media and the leftness along with this Mayor dissing our Military and First Responders there? Why are they doing that to get at Trump?

 

Always an excuse for mismanagement and incompetence.

 

Trump the oversized turd only likes regulations that screw the little guy.

 

If you haven't heard, the Jones Act has been suspended. So PR can now spend it's impressive, non-existant rainy day fund anywhere it chooses.

 

Prove that.

 

That you cannot refute the FACTS and instead persist in blaming the victims says volumes.

 

So you agree that laws designed to protect union labor can be harmful?

 

Taunting your fellow Americans in mortal peril says volumes about the BLOTUS and his extremist alt right supporters.

 

Thank you for ADMITTING that you FAILED to read the link provided by @Margot2 .

 

Well Trump got rid of regulations. Told Puerto Rico.....Love is Coming to Town.

 

He whipped your asses!

 

Yes, none of those comments from Puerto Rico are true, are they? PR today is full of shiny happy people...

 

Onus is entirely on YOU to PROVE that was the reason for the Jones Act and why it was never subsequently repealed by the anti-union GOP when they had full control over both houses and the executive branch.

 

Inane non sequitur!

 

So why didn't they report on those 8 Coast Guard Cutters being there? Just why does the leftness seek to avoid reality?

 

The facts are that PR amassed $73 Billion in debt, and having been devastated by dozens of hurricanes before, utterly ignored preparations for another disaster. Wiki can provide with the islands history of storms.

 

Read "killing the jones act" Heritage foundation 2014...... It was poster 2-3 times yesterday.

 

Of course she should be telling the truth, and I'm sure she is doing so to the best of her knowledge: if you watch the interviews, the anguish is clear. Not to say she might not be uninformed about some aspects of the situation, but I can't see her responses as some orchestrated anti-Trump thing. But I note you completely avoid the question of how inappropriate Trump's tweets are.