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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIs Trump's strategy for Puerto Rico some sort of Final Solution?
Three+ million people need a whole lot of food. Scavenging and tapping stores will only get them so far. Right now, it sounds like the island's capacity to produce food is nearly nil. There don't seem to be any plans or even any will to create a supply chain with the capacity needed, even for bare subsistence.
Is he just going to let them die?
dewsgirl
(14,961 posts)lapfog_1
(29,166 posts)they end up selling everything to the new oligarchs and working for minimum wage in factories set up by the ownership class. Company towns... where you rent your home and buy your food from your employer... and often wind up in debt even though you are working full time.
enough
(13,235 posts)NRaleighLiberal
(59,940 posts)The man is a totally self consumed idiot.
Alice11111
(5,730 posts)a military guy to head the operation now, so someone will take responsibility and, hopefully, go into Emergency overdrive.
Just terrible. We don't take Syrian refugees. Now, we don't even help our own citizens. Reprehensible. Immoral.
arthritisR_US
(7,269 posts)Alice11111
(5,730 posts)arthritisR_US
(7,269 posts)Lurker Deluxe
(1,031 posts)That is the plan ... all 3+ million people will die, by the end of the weekend.
ffs
Like PR is the only place getting any attention because it is in the worst condition ... right this minute.
The desire of this site to place blame for shit that can not be helped is crazy.
Three major storms have hit in the last month, the entire Caribbean is destroyed. Oh ... and Texas ... Florida ...
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)what are you doing sitting around on social media, Girard?
Maybe go learn a little bit about what you're talking about? Because this shocking post suggests you haven't spent 2 minutes learning about what is being done and what is not.
To accuse our nation of not having "any plans or even any will" is shockingly, 100% ignorant and an enormous insult to all those working to exhaustion to save the people of PR and USVI.
Here're a quickly grabbed few of dozens of articles.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/09/27/us/puerto-rico-aid-problem/index.html
Pentagon names 3-star general to lead Puerto Rico efforts
http://www.cnn.com/2017/09/28/politics/pentagon-general-to-lead-puerto-rico-efforts/index.html
The general who turned around the response in New Orleans after Katrina thinks we're failing Puerto Rico: Puerto Rico is a bigger and tougher mission than Katrina.
https://www.vox.com/world/2017/9/28/16379286/puerto-rico-response-trump-honore-interview
DoD, Partner Agencies Support Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands Hurricane Relief Efforts
U.S. Northern Command estimates being able to increase the airlift flow rate from 3-6 aircraft per hour to 10 aircraft per hour into Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands -- for a total of 240 aircraft per day over the next 24 hours.
https://www.defense.gov/News/Article/Article/1325245/dod-partner-agencies-support-puerto-rico-virgin-islands-hurricane-relief-efforts/
Is the Trump Administration Price Gouging Puerto Rico Evacuees and Seizing Passports?
The Trump administration did not implement a Department of State policy that was widely rumored as being applicable to Puerto Rican hurricane evacuees.
http://www.snopes.com/is-the-trump-administration-puerto-rico-evacuees/
What every American needs to know about Puerto Ricos hurricane disaster
https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2017/9/26/16365994/hurricane-maria-2017-puerto-rico-san-juan-humanitarian-disaster-electricty-fuel-flights-facts
Girard442
(6,058 posts)Two points:
1. It's all in the numbers. I don't doubt that the people on the ground are working their hearts out, but if you don't do the volume, the job isn't getting done.
2. There's a reason it's called a supply chain. Every link has to work. It doesn't help to point to one link being super-de-duper when one down the line is inop.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)You've picked up a couple new terms from the headlines at least, Gerard, supply chain, distribution. How that supports your suspicion that our nation is launched on a program of genocide I do not see.