Letting the Jones Act Waiver expire means the Trump Administration just decided to go back to charging Puerto Rican's twice was much for food and supplies. How The Jones Act does that is explained below. But the question we should be asking ourselves daily is this:
How many people have died due to reasons secondary to the storm itself?
* * * * * Our first clue that a WHITE LIVES MATTER ONLY approach was coming was Trump's paper towel toss as a method of "helping Puerto Ricans" And he didn't go to Puerto Rico until after he'd gone golfing the weekend before.
Compare the paper towel toss to Puerto Ricans to how he helped mostly white folks after a flood in Louisiana.
In Louisiana he and Pence were there photographed passing out baskets of supplies.Trump even had an eighteen wheeler roll in to Louisiana with even more necessities of life.
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Now, Trump's FEMA* is saying it's not their job to hand out supplies Puerto Rico. FEMA said it's the local governments responsibility
FEMA had the audacity to say this after a category 5 hurricane hit P.R., had the audacity to say this when Puerto Ricans, including local governments, didn't have any electricity or clear roads or fuel or functioning vehicles for a while.
How was the local government supposed to pass out supplies? As of yesterday --three weeks later after the storm has gone-- somewhere near 85% still don't have electricity and up to 60% don't have access to clean drinking water.
Roads are now clear, but local governments, the mayors, are still floundering without drinking water, gasoline, vehicles etc.
If outside help refuses to help distribute supplies, then I guess it's not a mystery as to why supplies aren't moving too far away from the landing zones and docks, is it?
Can you imagine Trump's FEMA saying this crap to white people in Texas and Florida?
I can't.
On a side note, I wonder how many of the paler and richer people on Puerto Rico thought they were cut from a richer, better quality clothe than their darker, poorer cousins.
All Puerto Ricans should now know what "not-white" means to at least 57% of white folks on the mainland: It means your humanity is worth less.
Read More: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/10/10/1705685/-FEMA-Not-our-job-to-deliver-water-and-food-to-Puerto-Ricans-Think-I-am-making-this-up-Wrong
And See More: http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/d-block-puerto-rico-1067297859792
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We all would have seen this coming if we had known that The Jones Act put in place by the United States back in the 1920s means that "U.S. Territory Treatment" is the same as getting the "Colony Treatment" circa the 18th century.
And the "Colony Treatment" means that the land and people one has invaded exist as one giant supply depot -- which is exactly why the American Colonies (pre-existence of the United States) wanted to get out from under Britain in 1776.
read more on The Jones Act
The Jones Act, the obscure 1920 shipping regulation strangling Puerto Rico, explained
Protectionism and exploitation at its worst.
The island of Puerto Rico is devastated, with millions lacking power, infrastructure destroyed, homes damaged, and an entire year’s worth of agricultural output essentially ruined. Like any disaster-struck place, it will be in need of supplies brought it from elsewhere in the country.
But getting goods from the US mainland to Puerto Rico is much more expensive than sending them to Texas or even to other Caribbean islands as a result of a century-old man-made disaster that’s been crippling the island’s economy for a long time.
Meet the Jones Act, an obscure 1920 regulation that requires that goods shipped from one American port to another be transported on a ship that is American-built, American-owned, and crewed by US citizens or permanent residents.
For most Americans, this isn’t a big deal — it enriches a small number of American shipowners while introducing some weird distortions into the overall pattern of economic activity in the United States.
For the residents of the island of Puerto Rico, though, the Jones Act is huge. Basic shipments of goods from the island to the US mainland, and vice versa, must be conducted via expensive protected ships (and protected companies) rather than exposing them to global competition.
That makes everything Puerto Ricans buy unnecessarily expensive relative to goods purchased on either the US mainland or other Caribbean islands, and drives up the cost of living on the island overall.
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/9/27/16373484/jones-act-puerto-rico
1) REMEMBER: PUERTO RICANS ARE UNITED STATES CITIZENS THAT CAN'T VOTE
2) DOESN'T THIS MEAN PUERTO RICO IS STILL A COLONY UNDER THE BOOT OF THE COLONIZER, THE UNITED STATES?
3) DOESN'T ALL THIS MEAN PUERTO RICO NEEDS TO HAVE A BOSTON TEA PARTY ALL THEIR OWN?
4) DO YOU SEE HOW HYPOCRITICAL IS FOR TRUMP AND HIS WHITE SUPREMACY GUZZLING FOLLOWERS TO CRITICIZE THE P.R. ECONOMY AND INFRASTRUCTURE?BLACKCHICKROCKED.BLOGSPOT.COM
Republican John McCain and another Senator are supposed to be introducing legislation to get rid of the Jones Act altogether. But some American companies are making money hand over fist so there's sure to be some serious pushback. If congress doesn't get rid of the Jones Act before Puerto Rico's story drops off the charts as "important" (sans any dying white folk) I think Puerto Rico is going caught in the proverbial trick bag.
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