09-30-2017, 10:41 PM
So I have seen a bunch of various things like how it's "Trump's Katrina" and how many people are without water, and it's all Trump's fault and such, and it seemed like they were doing and okayish on the response, but hardly a great job. Then I read this.
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/teamsters-organize-truckers-to-move-supplies-in-puerto-rico/ar-AAsEJsd?OCID=ansmsnnews11
This is a CNN article, so it's not like this is a pro-Trump slanted article, either. Only 20% of Puerto Rico's truck drivers have reported back to work. This is what, 10 days after the fact? So *thousands* of shipping containers full of supplies are sitting undistributed.
At what point do we need to stop blaming Trump for the response, and point out that either Puerto Rico's leadership failed at organizing their own people or the people just weren't interested in helping each other? It doesn't matter how much supplies the mainland ships in if nobody in Puerto Rico is willing to do their job and distribute it. Instead we have to get volunteers from 1,200-3,000 miles away (Cincinnati is 1,800 miles away) to do it.
I remember when Hurricane Ike came through and knocked out everyone's power. We had a full old tree fall across our deadend street, taking out the power lines. A day later everyone went to work, just driving off the road and through a yard to be able to get out (everyone chipped in later to pay for new grass seed and such). We had no electricity for 9 days, yet people still went to do their jobs that were a hell of a lot less important than shipping badly needed supplies so people could eat and drink.
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/teamsters-organize-truckers-to-move-supplies-in-puerto-rico/ar-AAsEJsd?OCID=ansmsnnews11
Quote: The Teamsters union and the AFL-CIO, a federation of more than 50 unions, are working together to recruit truckers to travelto Puerto Rico and help distribute a stockpile of relief supplies
Thousands of shipping containers full of food, water, and medicines were sitting unused at Puerto Rico's Port of San Juan.
Relief workers haven't been able to distribute the goods, in part because only about 20% of Puerto Rico's truck drivers have reported back to work since Hurricane Maria swept through, according to a representative for Puerto Rican Gov. Ricardo Rosselló.
This is a CNN article, so it's not like this is a pro-Trump slanted article, either. Only 20% of Puerto Rico's truck drivers have reported back to work. This is what, 10 days after the fact? So *thousands* of shipping containers full of supplies are sitting undistributed.
At what point do we need to stop blaming Trump for the response, and point out that either Puerto Rico's leadership failed at organizing their own people or the people just weren't interested in helping each other? It doesn't matter how much supplies the mainland ships in if nobody in Puerto Rico is willing to do their job and distribute it. Instead we have to get volunteers from 1,200-3,000 miles away (Cincinnati is 1,800 miles away) to do it.
I remember when Hurricane Ike came through and knocked out everyone's power. We had a full old tree fall across our deadend street, taking out the power lines. A day later everyone went to work, just driving off the road and through a yard to be able to get out (everyone chipped in later to pay for new grass seed and such). We had no electricity for 9 days, yet people still went to do their jobs that were a hell of a lot less important than shipping badly needed supplies so people could eat and drink.
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