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For those still yammering about how Trump isn't waiving the 1920 Jones Act as he did for Texas and Florida because they already had plenty of fuel -- BS.
As I posted somewhere else, Ft. Stewart has deployed 40 soldiers to set up communications between all the federal aid entities. It's an important start.
24/7 national guard planes are shuttling people and supplies on C130s out of Savannah, and have been for a week. We have NG pilots from all over the country here.
It is not as if the northern power companies can drive down to help, like they could on the mainland.
I have a friend that is a native there, living in Florida, and he took his own boat down to check on his family, and he says they have huge generators up and are starting to work on the electricity, and have most of the hospitals in his family's area up and running on generators. But, he does admit that the infrastructure or Puerto Rico is poor, and the leaders are already working with the government about what they can do to upgrade their problems.
For those still yammering about how Trump isn't waiving the 1920 Jones Act as he did for Texas and Florida because they already had plenty of fuel -- BS.
I have a friend that is a native there, living in Florida, and he took his own boat down to check on his family, and he says they have huge generators up and are starting to work on the electricity, and have most of the hospitals in his family's area up and running on generators. But, he does admit that the infrastructure or Puerto Rico is poor, and the leaders are already working with the government about what they can do to upgrade their problems.
The reason behind a weak infrastructure, or at least the portion of it in private hands, but subject to regulation, can often be laid at the door of populist politicians who held the rates down for political reasons. Not saying that is necessarily the case here, but anyone who claims it never happens is either fooling him/herself, or lying outright.
so what will you howl about now since he lifted the ban?
the whimpering will never stop, he could cure cancer and they'd complain, it's fun to watch them act out.
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