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Thursday, March 28, 2024

Puerto Rico Relief Efforts Pale to that for Just One Wall Street Bank

Courtesy of Pam Martens

With 3.4 million fellow American citizens undergoing an epic humanitarian crisis in Puerto Rico, a United States territory, as critically-needed food and water remain undistributed for lack of manpower and proper logistical coordination by the Trump administration, there is no better time than the present to assess how corporate welfare trumps the rights of individual citizens of the United States.

President Trump, the man who ran on a so-called populist agenda, has Tweeted the following regarding the situation in Puerto Rico (italic emphasis added below):

September 25: It’s old electrical grid, which was in terrible shape, was devastated. Much of the Island was destroyed, with billions of dollars owed to Wall Street and the banks which, sadly, must be dealt with. Food, water and medical are top priorities – and doing well.

September 29: The fact is that Puerto Rico has been destroyed by two hurricanes. Big decisions will have to be made as to the cost of its rebuilding!

September 30: Such poor leadership ability by the Mayor of San Juan, and others in Puerto Rico, who are not able to get their workers to help. They want everything to be done for them when it should be a community effort. 10,000 Federal workers now on Island doing a fantastic job.

When Donald Trump made these Tweets, the situation was as follows in Puerto Rico as the result of Hurricane Maria making a direct hit on the island: most of these U.S. citizens have no electric power, no air conditioning in sweltering heat, no working refrigerators or running water because of the lack of electricity, with tens of thousands of homes missing their roofs and/or walls.

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