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what would you like for them to do?lip service. No one will anything.
You are the idiot! PR needed about 35,000 troops with container moving equipment on the ground after the storm passed. There are finally about 10,000 troops there after yelling at Trump for a month. Now he wants to pull them back.You left out 810,800 National Guard & ReservesTrump has 2 million military people that can distribute emergency aid, water, food, restore, water, food, electric, roads, communications regardless of the conditions of it's devastated local government & it's infrastructure. It's been 35 day's since Trump declared Puerto Rico state of emergency & could not even get bottled water delivered. 35 US citizens died there over that period of time.Trump had 30 days to get them distributed & failed!
and, he still hasn't mowed my yard yet, either, the bum!
Oh?
According to this, it's 1,373,650
Total Available Active Military Manpower by Country
Not all of those are relief workers. Duh!
So you're saying ..oh nevermind, you're Cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs!
Where'd you pull those figures from? Your colon?
So all bases around the world should be abandoned and all NG troops called up because: Puerto Rico, amirite?
Cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs!
You are the idiot! PR needed about 35,000 troops with container moving equipment on the ground after the storm passed. There are finally about 10,000 troops there after yelling at Trump for a month. Now he wants to pull them back.You left out 810,800 National Guard & ReservesTrump has 2 million military people that can distribute emergency aid, water, food, restore, water, food, electric, roads, communications regardless of the conditions of it's devastated local government & it's infrastructure. It's been 35 day's since Trump declared Puerto Rico state of emergency & could not even get bottled water delivered. 35 US citizens died there over that period of time.and, he still hasn't mowed my yard yet, either, the bum!
Oh?
According to this, it's 1,373,650
Total Available Active Military Manpower by Country
Not all of those are relief workers. Duh!
So you're saying ..oh nevermind, you're Cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs!
Where'd you pull those figures from? Your colon?
So all bases around the world should be abandoned and all NG troops called up because: Puerto Rico, amirite?
Cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs!
Why do you call hungry & thirsty survivors grabbing food & water looters? There is no way to pay for stuff without power & communications! The military doesn't need roads, bridges or any kind of infrastructure to distribute supplies. Landing craft, mobile bridges, hovercraft, helicopters, container dollies, etc would have got this done in a few days.It's about accessibility, for some reason urban lefties don't get it. They have no concept that it becomes exceedingly difficult to move products when you have no functional roads. 13 miles sounds so small, but depending on the terrain it can very easily be /impassible/ as in we cannot get through it. We cannot just fly a thousand helicopters to every little village, its not logistically possible, planes cannot land, so we're left in a huge mess of having to drop supplies - outside of town so it doesn't kill anyone, which means people have the opportunity to loot it and there may be damages from the fall and so forth. Hell, even if we had transporter technology figured out we couldn't get supplies to some of these places, no power, no platform, etc.
It's unfortunate for those suffering no doubt, but it's reality. Nature owns this planet, we humans can only tame it temporarily...
Because Trump had his head up his ass!President Trump, FEMA, Red Cross, none of them could have known that PR wasn't ready for emergency supply distribution. Don't be disingenuous...
Why do you call hungry & thirsty survivors grabbing food & water looters? There is no way to pay for stuff without power & communications! The military doesn't need roads, bridges or any kind of infrastructure to distribute supplies. Landing craft, mobile bridges, hovercraft, helicopters, container dollies, etc would have got this done in a few days.It's about accessibility, for some reason urban lefties don't get it. They have no concept that it becomes exceedingly difficult to move products when you have no functional roads. 13 miles sounds so small, but depending on the terrain it can very easily be /impassible/ as in we cannot get through it. We cannot just fly a thousand helicopters to every little village, its not logistically possible, planes cannot land, so we're left in a huge mess of having to drop supplies - outside of town so it doesn't kill anyone, which means people have the opportunity to loot it and there may be damages from the fall and so forth. Hell, even if we had transporter technology figured out we couldn't get supplies to some of these places, no power, no platform, etc.
It's unfortunate for those suffering no doubt, but it's reality. Nature owns this planet, we humans can only tame it temporarily...
You are clueless. 35,000 troops & proper equipment could clear every tree off the roads in that small island in days.Why do you call hungry & thirsty survivors grabbing food & water looters? There is no way to pay for stuff without power & communications! The military doesn't need roads, bridges or any kind of infrastructure to distribute supplies. Landing craft, mobile bridges, hovercraft, helicopters, container dollies, etc would have got this done in a few days.It's about accessibility, for some reason urban lefties don't get it. They have no concept that it becomes exceedingly difficult to move products when you have no functional roads. 13 miles sounds so small, but depending on the terrain it can very easily be /impassible/ as in we cannot get through it. We cannot just fly a thousand helicopters to every little village, its not logistically possible, planes cannot land, so we're left in a huge mess of having to drop supplies - outside of town so it doesn't kill anyone, which means people have the opportunity to loot it and there may be damages from the fall and so forth. Hell, even if we had transporter technology figured out we couldn't get supplies to some of these places, no power, no platform, etc.
It's unfortunate for those suffering no doubt, but it's reality. Nature owns this planet, we humans can only tame it temporarily...
As I understand it, people are stealing the aid that's being dropped and selling it - I call that looting, yes.
Bullshit, the military needs roads to distribute all of that shit. Even /IF/ they had all those things you talk about in PR in a few days, they /still/ wouldn't have the distribution shit set up. You clearly have no idea what it's like to deal with devastation, or even just raw nature.
A real life example tree falls across my road in Eagle River, Alaska. Even if I see it at 6am, it's not likely to be out of my way until probably around noon - why? Because /I/ cannot cut it myself so I have to wait on someone who has the tools and equipment necessary to get it out of the way for me. Meanwhile 100 other roads have trees on them as well, there are simply not enough "emergency tree removal" folks on hand to clear every single tree in town, much less in the equivalent size area of devastation that is PR...
As a heads up, PR is likely going to take /years/ to recover from this. Don't blow your empathy wad too quickly.
You are clueless. 35,000 troops & proper equipment could clear every tree off the roads in that small island in days.Why do you call hungry & thirsty survivors grabbing food & water looters? There is no way to pay for stuff without power & communications! The military doesn't need roads, bridges or any kind of infrastructure to distribute supplies. Landing craft, mobile bridges, hovercraft, helicopters, container dollies, etc would have got this done in a few days.It's about accessibility, for some reason urban lefties don't get it. They have no concept that it becomes exceedingly difficult to move products when you have no functional roads. 13 miles sounds so small, but depending on the terrain it can very easily be /impassible/ as in we cannot get through it. We cannot just fly a thousand helicopters to every little village, its not logistically possible, planes cannot land, so we're left in a huge mess of having to drop supplies - outside of town so it doesn't kill anyone, which means people have the opportunity to loot it and there may be damages from the fall and so forth. Hell, even if we had transporter technology figured out we couldn't get supplies to some of these places, no power, no platform, etc.
It's unfortunate for those suffering no doubt, but it's reality. Nature owns this planet, we humans can only tame it temporarily...
As I understand it, people are stealing the aid that's being dropped and selling it - I call that looting, yes.
Bullshit, the military needs roads to distribute all of that shit. Even /IF/ they had all those things you talk about in PR in a few days, they /still/ wouldn't have the distribution shit set up. You clearly have no idea what it's like to deal with devastation, or even just raw nature.
A real life example tree falls across my road in Eagle River, Alaska. Even if I see it at 6am, it's not likely to be out of my way until probably around noon - why? Because /I/ cannot cut it myself so I have to wait on someone who has the tools and equipment necessary to get it out of the way for me. Meanwhile 100 other roads have trees on them as well, there are simply not enough "emergency tree removal" folks on hand to clear every single tree in town, much less in the equivalent size area of devastation that is PR...
As a heads up, PR is likely going to take /years/ to recover from this. Don't blow your empathy wad too quickly.
You are clueless. 35,000 troops & proper equipment could clear every tree off the roads in that small island in days.Why do you call hungry & thirsty survivors grabbing food & water looters? There is no way to pay for stuff without power & communications! The military doesn't need roads, bridges or any kind of infrastructure to distribute supplies. Landing craft, mobile bridges, hovercraft, helicopters, container dollies, etc would have got this done in a few days.It's about accessibility, for some reason urban lefties don't get it. They have no concept that it becomes exceedingly difficult to move products when you have no functional roads. 13 miles sounds so small, but depending on the terrain it can very easily be /impassible/ as in we cannot get through it. We cannot just fly a thousand helicopters to every little village, its not logistically possible, planes cannot land, so we're left in a huge mess of having to drop supplies - outside of town so it doesn't kill anyone, which means people have the opportunity to loot it and there may be damages from the fall and so forth. Hell, even if we had transporter technology figured out we couldn't get supplies to some of these places, no power, no platform, etc.
It's unfortunate for those suffering no doubt, but it's reality. Nature owns this planet, we humans can only tame it temporarily...
As I understand it, people are stealing the aid that's being dropped and selling it - I call that looting, yes.
Bullshit, the military needs roads to distribute all of that shit. Even /IF/ they had all those things you talk about in PR in a few days, they /still/ wouldn't have the distribution shit set up. You clearly have no idea what it's like to deal with devastation, or even just raw nature.
A real life example tree falls across my road in Eagle River, Alaska. Even if I see it at 6am, it's not likely to be out of my way until probably around noon - why? Because /I/ cannot cut it myself so I have to wait on someone who has the tools and equipment necessary to get it out of the way for me. Meanwhile 100 other roads have trees on them as well, there are simply not enough "emergency tree removal" folks on hand to clear every single tree in town, much less in the equivalent size area of devastation that is PR...
As a heads up, PR is likely going to take /years/ to recover from this. Don't blow your empathy wad too quickly.
Do you know where PR is? How long would it take to organize getting all that equipment and troops to the island - gotta find the equipment, get it to a US port, get cargo ships (which are busy elsewhere and do not belong to the US government,) gotta know where to put that equipment (which requires PR to have their shit straight,) gotta fix ports so that cargo ships can actually get in there and off load the stuff (again PR should have a plan for that in emergencies,) and a thousand other details that need to be sorted out.
You cannot just run in there willy-nilly and hope to accomplish anything; and I personally suspect that's what PR did, having no plan what-so-ever they just expected everything to "happen" - and guess what, it didn't.
Because Trump had his head up his ass!President Trump, FEMA, Red Cross, none of them could have known that PR wasn't ready for emergency supply distribution. Don't be disingenuous...
You are clueless. 35,000 troops & proper equipment could clear every tree off the roads in that small island in days.Why do you call hungry & thirsty survivors grabbing food & water looters? There is no way to pay for stuff without power & communications! The military doesn't need roads, bridges or any kind of infrastructure to distribute supplies. Landing craft, mobile bridges, hovercraft, helicopters, container dollies, etc would have got this done in a few days.It's about accessibility, for some reason urban lefties don't get it. They have no concept that it becomes exceedingly difficult to move products when you have no functional roads. 13 miles sounds so small, but depending on the terrain it can very easily be /impassible/ as in we cannot get through it. We cannot just fly a thousand helicopters to every little village, its not logistically possible, planes cannot land, so we're left in a huge mess of having to drop supplies - outside of town so it doesn't kill anyone, which means people have the opportunity to loot it and there may be damages from the fall and so forth. Hell, even if we had transporter technology figured out we couldn't get supplies to some of these places, no power, no platform, etc.
It's unfortunate for those suffering no doubt, but it's reality. Nature owns this planet, we humans can only tame it temporarily...
As I understand it, people are stealing the aid that's being dropped and selling it - I call that looting, yes.
Bullshit, the military needs roads to distribute all of that shit. Even /IF/ they had all those things you talk about in PR in a few days, they /still/ wouldn't have the distribution shit set up. You clearly have no idea what it's like to deal with devastation, or even just raw nature.
A real life example tree falls across my road in Eagle River, Alaska. Even if I see it at 6am, it's not likely to be out of my way until probably around noon - why? Because /I/ cannot cut it myself so I have to wait on someone who has the tools and equipment necessary to get it out of the way for me. Meanwhile 100 other roads have trees on them as well, there are simply not enough "emergency tree removal" folks on hand to clear every single tree in town, much less in the equivalent size area of devastation that is PR...
As a heads up, PR is likely going to take /years/ to recover from this. Don't blow your empathy wad too quickly.
Do you know where PR is? How long would it take to organize getting all that equipment and troops to the island - gotta find the equipment, get it to a US port, get cargo ships (which are busy elsewhere and do not belong to the US government,) gotta know where to put that equipment (which requires PR to have their shit straight,) gotta fix ports so that cargo ships can actually get in there and off load the stuff (again PR should have a plan for that in emergencies,) and a thousand other details that need to be sorted out.
You cannot just run in there willy-nilly and hope to accomplish anything; and I personally suspect that's what PR did, having no plan what-so-ever they just expected everything to "happen" - and guess what, it didn't.
The poster is your typical Burb Brat 'radical' raised on mindless self-indulgence and instant gratification; they have zero clue on how to do anything that requires an attention span more than 4 seconds, and is going to whine incessantly when they don't get their way and all the adults fail to indulge their whims right away.
It appears that not everybody has forgotten about the devastation in Puerto Rico.
Governor Ricardo Rossello of Puerto Rico has ordered an investigation over water and food distribution on the hurricane-battered island after complaints that the supplies were not reaching the people in some areas.
"If there is a place, a locality that is not delivering food to the people of Puerto Rico that need it, there's going to be some hell to pay," Rossello said on Monday, according to Reuters.
Rossello said the government was trying to identify problems in the distribution pipeline, looking to ensure that local leaders deliver resources to people as soon as they arrive in the municipality.
"I think that there are places where water is being withheld and food is being withheld," Rossello said. "We need to showcase it, we need to push it forward to the people."
More @ ‘Hell to pay’: Puerto Rico Governor to investigate delays in water, food deliveries
Governor Ricardo needs to investigate that outrage. Boatloads of water, food, fuel and supplies are moored in San Juan but there they sit without the inland getting anything. Governor Ricardo needs to get an FBI investigation and prosecuted to the furthest extent of the law.
The Puerto Rico Government was destroyed. Their drivers are fighting to stay alive. They can't deliver supplies. The Federal Government is charged with getting the supplies & relief directly to the people. The Trump Administration Failed to do it's job regardless of what local officials are doing.
The US has bigger fish to fry than Puerto Rico. The US Army was very recently told to get ready to fight North Korea. When the Glorious Leader themonuke's the East Bay???
Would that be because our glorious orange leader ask the pentagon 3 times "if we have nukes, then why can't we use them?"?
I think but not sure that The Joint Chiefs of Staff have ultimate authority for nuke use. Trump does not have the codes and if he did could not interpret the complicated jargon.
edit: for instance, COMSEVENTHFLT
PR declared state of emergency on September 4th. It don't take that long. Should have been ready to land the moment the storm passed.You are clueless. 35,000 troops & proper equipment could clear every tree off the roads in that small island in days.Why do you call hungry & thirsty survivors grabbing food & water looters? There is no way to pay for stuff without power & communications! The military doesn't need roads, bridges or any kind of infrastructure to distribute supplies. Landing craft, mobile bridges, hovercraft, helicopters, container dollies, etc would have got this done in a few days.It's about accessibility, for some reason urban lefties don't get it. They have no concept that it becomes exceedingly difficult to move products when you have no functional roads. 13 miles sounds so small, but depending on the terrain it can very easily be /impassible/ as in we cannot get through it. We cannot just fly a thousand helicopters to every little village, its not logistically possible, planes cannot land, so we're left in a huge mess of having to drop supplies - outside of town so it doesn't kill anyone, which means people have the opportunity to loot it and there may be damages from the fall and so forth. Hell, even if we had transporter technology figured out we couldn't get supplies to some of these places, no power, no platform, etc.
It's unfortunate for those suffering no doubt, but it's reality. Nature owns this planet, we humans can only tame it temporarily...
As I understand it, people are stealing the aid that's being dropped and selling it - I call that looting, yes.
Bullshit, the military needs roads to distribute all of that shit. Even /IF/ they had all those things you talk about in PR in a few days, they /still/ wouldn't have the distribution shit set up. You clearly have no idea what it's like to deal with devastation, or even just raw nature.
A real life example tree falls across my road in Eagle River, Alaska. Even if I see it at 6am, it's not likely to be out of my way until probably around noon - why? Because /I/ cannot cut it myself so I have to wait on someone who has the tools and equipment necessary to get it out of the way for me. Meanwhile 100 other roads have trees on them as well, there are simply not enough "emergency tree removal" folks on hand to clear every single tree in town, much less in the equivalent size area of devastation that is PR...
As a heads up, PR is likely going to take /years/ to recover from this. Don't blow your empathy wad too quickly.
Do you know where PR is? How long would it take to organize getting all that equipment and troops to the island - gotta find the equipment, get it to a US port, get cargo ships (which are busy elsewhere and do not belong to the US government,) gotta know where to put that equipment (which requires PR to have their shit straight,) gotta fix ports so that cargo ships can actually get in there and off load the stuff (again PR should have a plan for that in emergencies,) and a thousand other details that need to be sorted out.
You cannot just run in there willy-nilly and hope to accomplish anything; and I personally suspect that's what PR did, having no plan what-so-ever they just expected everything to "happen" - and guess what, it didn't.
PR declared state of emergency on September 4th. It don't take that long. Should have been ready to land the moment the storm passed.You are clueless. 35,000 troops & proper equipment could clear every tree off the roads in that small island in days.Why do you call hungry & thirsty survivors grabbing food & water looters? There is no way to pay for stuff without power & communications! The military doesn't need roads, bridges or any kind of infrastructure to distribute supplies. Landing craft, mobile bridges, hovercraft, helicopters, container dollies, etc would have got this done in a few days.It's about accessibility, for some reason urban lefties don't get it. They have no concept that it becomes exceedingly difficult to move products when you have no functional roads. 13 miles sounds so small, but depending on the terrain it can very easily be /impassible/ as in we cannot get through it. We cannot just fly a thousand helicopters to every little village, its not logistically possible, planes cannot land, so we're left in a huge mess of having to drop supplies - outside of town so it doesn't kill anyone, which means people have the opportunity to loot it and there may be damages from the fall and so forth. Hell, even if we had transporter technology figured out we couldn't get supplies to some of these places, no power, no platform, etc.
It's unfortunate for those suffering no doubt, but it's reality. Nature owns this planet, we humans can only tame it temporarily...
As I understand it, people are stealing the aid that's being dropped and selling it - I call that looting, yes.
Bullshit, the military needs roads to distribute all of that shit. Even /IF/ they had all those things you talk about in PR in a few days, they /still/ wouldn't have the distribution shit set up. You clearly have no idea what it's like to deal with devastation, or even just raw nature.
A real life example tree falls across my road in Eagle River, Alaska. Even if I see it at 6am, it's not likely to be out of my way until probably around noon - why? Because /I/ cannot cut it myself so I have to wait on someone who has the tools and equipment necessary to get it out of the way for me. Meanwhile 100 other roads have trees on them as well, there are simply not enough "emergency tree removal" folks on hand to clear every single tree in town, much less in the equivalent size area of devastation that is PR...
As a heads up, PR is likely going to take /years/ to recover from this. Don't blow your empathy wad too quickly.
Do you know where PR is? How long would it take to organize getting all that equipment and troops to the island - gotta find the equipment, get it to a US port, get cargo ships (which are busy elsewhere and do not belong to the US government,) gotta know where to put that equipment (which requires PR to have their shit straight,) gotta fix ports so that cargo ships can actually get in there and off load the stuff (again PR should have a plan for that in emergencies,) and a thousand other details that need to be sorted out.
You cannot just run in there willy-nilly and hope to accomplish anything; and I personally suspect that's what PR did, having no plan what-so-ever they just expected everything to "happen" - and guess what, it didn't.
