Trump Is Right: Puerto Rico Shouldn’t Get More Hurricane Subsidies
The Federalist,
by
Ned Ryun
Original Article
Posted By: MissMolly,
4/12/2019 6:32:45 AM
In the last week, President Trump has been denounced for opposing more taxpayer funds for Puerto Rico in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria. Trump has put the blame squarely on the corrupt political leadership of Puerto Rico and highlighted that Puerto Rico has received more relief funding than Florida and Texas combined. While there is some disagreement over the exact figure that Puerto Rico has received, the Department of Housing and Urban Development has reported $20 billion in hurricane recovery funds, while the Federal Emergency Management Agency has funded an additional $8 billion
Reply 1 - Posted by:
John C 4/12/2019 6:46:21 AM (No. 31473)
I am tick off that they paid bonuses to workers ever though the island was bankrupted. They complained that Whitefish
Company which was doing a great job, wasn´t their company.
They left millions of water bottles on a runway.
Nuts to them
Remove the gift from the democrats of no taxes and becoming Americans at their vote, without input from Americans.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Krause 4/12/2019 7:21:45 AM (No. 31472)
Obviously, an audit of the billions we sent them needs to happen.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
F15 Gork 4/12/2019 7:36:23 AM (No. 31466)
Crap hole.
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Should have kept Cuba and not PR. What a bad deal for us.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
jacksin5 4/12/2019 8:33:36 AM (No. 31484)
Who´s going to make the needed repairs with so many PR nationals collecting welfare here as refugees?
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
jinx 4/12/2019 8:48:25 AM (No. 31465)
Of course he´s right. He understands finance. The Democrat/Socialists don´t. All they understand is handouts because they consist of OPM. Handouts mean votes for them and they get to stay in office and make millions to put into their own pockets.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Lazyman 4/12/2019 9:08:29 AM (No. 31481)
How many American cities are being subsidized by suburbia.
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President Trump is right again!
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Strike3 4/12/2019 9:50:54 AM (No. 31475)
Puerto Rican corruption has been going on for decades and it took a hurricane to bring it into focus. Still, AOC is going to be all hair, teeth and eyeballs for several days over this obvious racism and cruelty to the children.
Half the friggen island has been on welfare and unemployment for two generations. Whose bright idea was it to start this experiment in useless humanity? Operation Bootstrap was created in the fifties to bail them out, is that still the basis for our generosity?
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Rinktum 4/12/2019 9:56:16 AM (No. 31477)
I am weary of sending billions to countries that are corrupt when we could use the money here. You cannot throw good money after bad if you have any integrity at all. Either the corruption ends of the aid is cut. There is no logical reason to support people who will not work to support themselves. I am all for a hand up, but these perpetual hand outs are a disgrace and a slap in the face to every hard working American taxpayer.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Uno_Thatguy 4/12/2019 10:19:37 AM (No. 31469)
Send Hilary down to do the audit. She knows where all the loot went!
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
panther361 4/12/2019 10:42:39 AM (No. 31480)
Maybe we can get them to take back AOC.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
MDConservative 4/12/2019 11:02:36 AM (No. 31467)
Where are the indictments for this corruption? The bigger "issue" is that this is politics, not humanitarianism. No one minds helping people in distress...and those being "helped" seem to be those imposing distress as political leverage to gain more "help".
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
lakerman1 4/12/2019 11:34:46 AM (No. 31479)
My favorite moment in the PR hurricane was when the girl mayor of San Juan stood on the docks, and complained that the Trump administration was not sending aid. And behind her were stacks and stacks of boxes of aid, undelivered because the Teamsters went on strike to extort higher wages.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
snowoutlaw 4/12/2019 12:01:56 PM (No. 31476)
The people of PR do need help but first the corruption needs to be cleaned up so the help goes to those that need it.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
DVC 4/12/2019 12:14:40 PM (No. 31471)
We really need to put together a plan to unhitch PR entirely from the US. They are a resource sink, and it was a really serious error not to do with them what we did with the Philippines and Cuba after the Spanish-American war - cut them loose.
Free Puerto Rico! (and get your damned hands out of my pocket!)
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
winnie1 4/12/2019 2:39:48 PM (No. 31468)
who pocketed the money from the USA way before the Hurricane.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
Chuzzles 4/12/2019 2:49:57 PM (No. 31474)
What I found appalling was the mayor of San Juan carrying on about how Trump doesn´t care. Meanwhile, this interview with Anderson Cooper is happening in front of numerous pallets of aid that she and her cronies refuse to distribute.
They thought they were going to get a blank check from us, as in previous disasters. When they didn´t, the corruption came out to play all over the place. Now this mayor wants to run for governor.If anyplace needs an audit, it is PR right alongside Cali.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
Franz 4/12/2019 4:11:13 PM (No. 31464)
Puerto Rico has already gotten more aid than what was needed.
Giving them any more money will only continue to line the pockets of the crooked politicians and contractors.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
VirtuDawg 4/12/2019 4:47:50 PM (No. 31470)
Immediate independence for PR, NOW!
And, then take all their citizens off U.S. welfare / food stamp / social services rolls.
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No, Florida should get the check. They all live in Central FL taking jobs, affordable housing, and welfare. Kissimmee is PR North and has been for years.
Some have been here for 20 plus years and still can´t and won´t speak English. Over it.
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