I make an exception to my opposition to public subsidies for the Jones Act, which is necessary if the US merchant marine is to survive; the merchant marine is very important to national security.
But this is clearly a case where a limited and reasonable waiver of the act is necessary. It’s a matter of protecting the lives and well-being of American citizens. Which, of course, is antithetical to everything that the Drumpf maladministration stands for.
Speaking on CNN after Trump’s statement, Jeremy Konyndyk, the former head of USAID’s Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance, said Trump’s reasoning “almost sounds like profiteering by U.S. shipping companies off an emergency like this.”
Do you think
I can smell corruption at the heart of the American relief effort.
Shorter headline:
“For Puerto Rico Disaster, Trump Doesn’t Give a Ship.”
In other words, Trump doesn’t care to help the “Brown people”.
So again, 45 makes a blue territory with brown skinned people a victim of his hatred. Didn’t happen in the two States that voted for him, did it?
Well, it´s that he sees brown and black people and sees money to be made. Hence, his statement of his friends making the big bucks in Africa.
There´s gold in that there melanin.
That’s just a lie. And if it were true, a real President would tell the “shipping industry” where to get off.
There is only one way to understand the distinction here, where lifting the restriction is fine for the mainland but suddenly becomes objectionable where the island is concerned. We’ve already seen this President and party simply not caring about the people they could kill. Revulsion is not a strong enough word.
Karma will be when 150,000 American citizens have to move to Florida to survive and start voting there.
Until yesterday, Trump thought the Jones Act was something the Russians might have videotape of.
Congress can do something right now, and should do it ASAP.
If Trump had a heart he would tell the shipping industry to go screw themselves.
"The Jones Act…was waived earlier this month after Hurricane Harvey and Hurricane Irma…
A week after Hurricane Maria made landfall, the Department of Homeland Security has not issued a similar waiver for Puerto Rico…"
One of these things is not like the others,
One of these things just doesn’t belong,
Can you tell which thing is not like the others,
By the time I finish my song?
Clean your plate. Little kids in China would kill to have that food.
Well, now that they don’t have anything else to occupy their time, I guess it’s as good now as any…
Don’t forget, they speak SPANISH. In Puerto Rico’s case, they are a two-fer.
They are brown and they have no votes in federal elections. Time to move on, nothing to see here. Not real Muricans.