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Puerto Rican born and raised, Colonel Michael A. Valle (”Torch”), Commander, 101st Air and Space Operations Group, and Director of the Joint Air Component Coordination Element, 1st Air Force, responsible for Hurricane Maria relief efforts, has the following comment:
…They have the generators, water, food, medicine, and fuel on the ground, yet the supplies are not moving across the island as quickly as they’re needed.
“It’s a lack of drivers for the transport trucks, the 18 wheelers. Supplies we have. Trucks we have. There are ships full of supplies, backed up in the ports, waiting to have a vehicle to unload into. However, only 20% of the truck drivers show up to work. These are private citizens in Puerto Rico, paid by companies that are contracted by the government”.. (link)
The ports are so full of relief supplies they can’t fit any more on the available space. CNBC ground report confirms Colonel Valle’s ground report. WATCH:
https://youtu.be/f4Z01o4tBlI
The reason for truck drivers not showing up? The Puerto Rican Teamsters Union, Frente Amplio, is refusing to move the product.
Did mayor of San Juan mention union workers at port are on STRIKE & demanding money first before distributing supplies off boat? #amjoy
— Kambree (@KamVTV) September 30, 2017
50% of Puerto Rico's native National Guard members didn't report for duty when called in. https://t.co/uylhuKps35
— TheLastRefuge (@TheLastRefuge2) September 30, 2017
Whereas you, devoid of understanding and human compassion, stand and salute Donald Trump with your heads up your asses…
OPINION: Is Donald Trump really a moron? Duh
* Possibly because his fuse isn’t the only thing about him that’s unusually short.
@Greg: So, what is more compassionate? Getting the aid where it needs to go and expecting it to be distributed to the people that are in dire need of it or camping out in front of cameras and propagandists and bitching about everything not being fixed immediately?
Lack of compassion is taking time away from serving those in need to turn this catastrophe into a political circus, and that is what Cruz is doing. You liberals lack compassion in this and every tragic situation because you try to turn them ALL into a political gambit.
Don’t give me your “compassion” shit. Liberals are devoid of compassion.
If you don’t want a political circus, perhaps someone should separate your goofball ringmaster from his Twitter account.
Nearly 3 weeks after Hurricane Maria, distributing aid across Puerto Rico is a mess
It isn’t because of striking teamsters, or because of debt issues, or because lazy liberal Puerto Ricans would rather wait for their lunches to be delivered or hold out their tin cups than work. It’s because the entire infrastructure was severely damaged from one end of the island to the other.
@Greg: It really chaps the libtard’s asses that their lib news services can’t control the news on Trump. He sets the agenda and that sets them off. So funny
@Greg:
You left out your opinion of why that’s the fault of the Trump Admin.
@Greg:
I fail to see the point of attemting to judge if someone is ‘moron’ level or not. Just for your info, that would be about 3 steps up from Obozo’s level and about 2 above Hillary. So don’t be looking down on anyone that has acheived ‘moron’ level when you are in the company of so many that are still attempting to achieve it. I think the levels are 1. Vegetable, 2, imbecile, 3. Idiot, 4. moron.
@Redteam: @Redteam, #57:
Why did Trump take the Mayor of San Juan’s words so personally to begin with? She was talking about the reality of the dire situation on the island. He could have addressed or disputed the issues she raised. Instead, he launched a highly personal public attack.
Trump made it all about Trump. He always does this.
Desperate fight to avoid shortage of saline solution in the US after destruction at production plants in Puerto Rico
@Greg:
That is a situation that exists solely in the hateful liberal mind. False accusation were aimed at Trump and he slapped them down. Don’t want trouble? Don’t CAUSE trouble.
So why, then, does the left want to try and turn it into a racist, political circus? There would be no controversy if whiny bitch publicity whore Cruz had not turned it into a Trump hate-fest.
Yeah, that was NBC’s “opinion”, but Tillerson smacked that down. Fake news, fake news, fake news. If liberals didn’t lie, they’d have nothing to say.
SHE took it there. She saw cameras and knew if she vomited anti-Trump lies into CNN microphones, she’d be a liberal darling. Trump takes his job seriously. Liberals just make sure they have someone to blame. Blame and point fingers; the one and only attribute of the liberal.