This is not fake news, it’s not deniable science, people will die if medical care, food, and clean water is not made readily available…
Our Navy hospital ship should be there already, the Jones sanctions should have been lifted and any available ships ready to deliver emergency relief goods should have already been in motion. Screw profit oriented relief efforts and our government aiding in that endeavor. Puerto Rico has been strangled by profit oriented federal and PR government, and the people are barely recognized as citizens. FEMA relief funds for multiple disasters are going to have to be allocated, prioritized, and split in a prioritization that makes sense. We can’t be making $150 Billion available to Texas while Puerto Rico gets a fraction of that.
Questions…
Has FEMA devoted equal or commensurate resources as could be quantified against Texas or Florida? Florida perhaps not being nearly as threatening to life as pertains to the post relief efforts.
Dems need to submit a comprehensive and well constructed statement of the facts as relate the dire nature of the impending crisis. Deaths that can be expected need to be quantified both as projected estimates and the difference specific relief efforts will make such as providing a hospital ship.
The military has the logistic capability of mobilizing helicopter sky cranes that can deploy generators and fuel to the 50 plus hospitals that are without power. Surplus warehouses can be raided for items that would otherwise be sold at pennies on the dollar. In a world where $100 million dollars in a disaster is nothing, provide that critical infrastructure so that lives can be saved and the process of rebuilding can start.
Allow ships from all countries to bring supplies, thereby reducing the cost of the goods that hit the island. The Navy can provide tenders for ferrying goods from ships that are not able to dock. Local boats can provide this service at a fraction of the cost of outside providers, mobilize them.
Dems serving proper notice of what needs to be done that is not happening places Trump and the GOP directly in the realm of crimes against US citizens. This is the strategy that will get the GOP’s attention, that failure to act is knowingly allowing US citizens to unnecessarily die.
Recommend this, keep the message front and center, send letters to this effect to both GOP and dem senators and representatives. The more visibility the message of crimes against US citizens the more it will scare Trump and the GOP. Failure to intervene in an emergency fashion is murder, PERIOD.