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There were stockpiles of supplies in Puerto Rico, too, but that didn't mean it was successfully distributed to the people who needed it.[1] Is there a secret pl
by 34679 7y ago
There were stockpiles of supplies in Puerto Rico, too, but that didn't mean it was successfully distributed to the people who needed it.[1] Is there a secret plan for disbursing this stockpile to 300+ million Americans? If so, why wasn't that plan utilized in PR?
[1]https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/puerto-rico-fires-emergency-director-after-finding-warehouse-full-of-wasted-hurricane-maria-aid https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/puerto-rico-fires-em...
- zappo2938 7y agoWho was in charge at the time delegating responsibility?
- 34679 7y agoAt the federal level, republicans, and at the local level, democrats. There's plenty of blame to go around without being partisan.
- mwilliaams 7y agoAid was delivered to the island. Local officials failed to distribute it, apparently willfully. Abandoned/hidden aid is still being discovered in warehouses and other locations [1]. [1] https://www.npr.org/2020/01/20/797996503/political-unrest-in-puerto-rico-after-discovery-of-unused-hurricane-aid https://www.npr.org/2020/01/20/797996503/political-unrest-in...
- skinnymuch 7y agoThat’s insane. Do you know the reasoning for wastefully leaving supplies to rot? Is it laziness? It’s one thing to keep supplies or money for yourself. But this isn’t the case here.
- mwilliaams 7y agoI have heard speculation that it was to make the federal government look bad. Or perhaps the local government benefits from maintaining a crisis situation. I’m not Puerto Rican.
- Mountain_Skies 7y agoProbably some of both with the added bonus that the supplies could be sold slowly over time as the demand never collapsed.
- iratewizard 7y agoThe disaster in PR was used as a political weapon because we elected sociopaths. If such a disaster happened in the mainland at a larger scale and such a thing happened, I imagine there would be a coup.
- tracer4201 7y agoAs much as I want you to be right—that there would be a coup if our government in the mainland delivered these results—I’m fearful that certain cities or even states could be abandoned. I’m fearful a certain political block would even support this as a cleansing and restoring America to some fantasy version.
- JshWright 7y agoWe've literally already seen that threatened in the Trump administration's response to wildfires in California.
- arrosenberg 7y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Katrina https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Katrina The result was only minor civil unrest.
- ta999999171 7y agoRight, because New Orleans is known as being an area to exercise their 2nd Amendment right!
- skinnymuch 7y agoThe OP said if something similar happened in the mainland. Is NO not the mainland? It’s fine if you’re shifting the goal posts (you weren’t OP after all). But some more details should be provided then.
- ta999999171 7y ago
- tathougies 7y agoI mean america is a Federation not a centralized country. There are rarely federal plans that are not somewhat affected by the state or territory that plan is for. PRs failure is completely on them and doesnt really reflect on the federal government, which, if you recall, explicitly pointed out the corruption but was unable to do anything about it due to political grandstanding
- skinnymuch 7y agoWas all of Hurricane Katrina’s after math the local government’s fault too? Was not properly helping 9/11 first responders into the next decade the local government’s fault?
- tus88 7y agoProbably for the Chosen and the shadow government. Me and you are done for.