Coincidence or proof of liberal ineptness?

[Remodeling Maidiac]

You're not helping yourself. New Orleans is a massive tourist area. Puerto Rico is also a tourist destination. Yet the local politicians squander their natural resources and the financial revenue it provides them.
Hillbillies live in the middle of nowhere with no source of income.

And......what happens to massive tourist areas and the service employees when natural disasters strike?

It falls apart because DEMOCRATS squandered all the money and failed to be prepared for the Inevidible

Have you ever been to Puerto Rico? I have. I lived there for a year and a half. I had a project at the Naval Air Station Roosevelt Roads on the northeast side of the island.

Puerto Rico is roughly the size of Connecticut. But it's really more like West Virginia with palm trees. Population centers are strung along the coastline like pearls while the interior is mountainous with only a few main highways bisecting The island north and south. Everything else, transportation wise is two lane mountain roads.

It makes me wonder how someone without first hand knowledge of the situation can conclude that the "Democrats squandered all the money and failed to be prepared for the Inevidible (sic)". That sounds like political,grandstanding,at the expense of the truth.

Were they prepared? Did they have emergency supplies scattered around the island to be prepared for hurricane season? Stockpiles of bottled water? Canned rations? Batteries or fuel? Medical supplies? Emergency tents or propane stoves to boil water?

In case you hadn't noticed they are an island cut off from EVERYONE else and they are smack in the middle of normal hurricane paths every season.

So were they prepared? Are they governed by leftists?

Puerto Rico served as a way station for those beat up by Irma. Then, less than a fortnight later, Maria!

The best prepared would have been tested by this schedule.

I'll jot you down as coincidence then. I disagree but that's the great thing about opinions, we're entitled to our own.

 

[rightwinger]

When natural disasters strike I've noticed a stark difference in the response & recovery efforts depending on what side of the political spectrum the local officials are.
A lot of chaos seems to insue when the left controls the areas affected. Incidently when that happens they always find a way to blame it on higher ups at the federal level.
Case in point Rderps thread crying about all the resources sitting on the docks rather than being distributed inland. He blames that on Trump. HERE'S WHAT HE DOESN'T TELL YOU.
Fema has already distributed all of its relief supplies and the stuff sitting on the docks is commercial & private containers that do not belong to the government.
But rderp being the leftist hack he is may not even know that because all he listens to is leftist hate.

But I digress, is it a coincidence that the areas that struggle to recover the most are almost always governed by lefties?

You seem to struggle with cause and effect

Poor areas of the country tend to elect Democrats because Republicans will do nothing for them
They elect Democrats because they are poor........they are NOT poor because they elect Democrats

Why do poor people constantly expect the government to do for them. Why don't they do for themselves for a change?

Yet they remain poor after having elected Democrats for years.

On the national level, there are 63 congressional districts where more than 20% use food stamps. 54 are represented by Democrats. Many of them are gerrymandered to have a majority minority (usually a black majority). 6 of those districts where >20% food stamp users reside are in my State and the States directly north and south of me. 5 of those districts are Blue and all 5 of the blue ones have black representatives and either a black majority or damn near a black majority. Sad part is they've been poor districts for years and continue to elect democrats.

We are a great nation

Great nations help those who need help

 

[rightwinger]

Lets look at Appalachia
Been poor for hundreds of years. Hillbillies and dirt farmers who didn't have electricity till 50 years ago

They vote Republican. Are they poor and on generational welfare because they vote Republican or because they live in an area with a depressed economy?

You're not helping yourself. New Orleans is a massive tourist area. Puerto Rico is also a tourist destination. Yet the local politicians squander their natural resources and the financial revenue it provides them.
Hillbillies live in the middle of nowhere with no source of income.

And......what happens to massive tourist areas and the service employees when natural disasters strike?

It falls apart because DEMOCRATS squandered all the money and failed to be prepared for the Inevidible

Have you ever been to Puerto Rico? I have. I lived there for a year and a half. I had a project at the Naval Air Station Roosevelt Roads on the northeast side of the island.

Puerto Rico is roughly the size of Connecticut. But it's really more like West Virginia with palm trees. Population centers are strung along the coastline like pearls while the interior is mountainous with only a few main highways bisecting The island north and south. Everything else, transportation wise is two lane mountain roads.

It makes me wonder how someone without first hand knowledge of the situation can conclude that the "Democrats squandered all the money and failed to be prepared for the Inevidible (sic)". That sounds like political,grandstanding,at the expense of the truth.

Were they prepared? Did they have emergency supplies scattered around the island to be prepared for hurricane season? Stockpiles of bottled water? Canned rations? Batteries or fuel? Medical supplies? Emergency tents or propane stoves to boil water?

In case you hadn't noticed they are an island cut off from EVERYONE else and they are smack in the middle of normal hurricane paths every season.

So were they prepared? Are they governed by leftists?

How dare you not be prepared for two Cat 5 hurricanes?

Sandy was a Cat 1 and crippled the northeast

 

[Conservative65]

When natural disasters strike I've noticed a stark difference in the response & recovery efforts depending on what side of the political spectrum the local officials are.
A lot of chaos seems to insue when the left controls the areas affected. Incidently when that happens they always find a way to blame it on higher ups at the federal level.
Case in point Rderps thread crying about all the resources sitting on the docks rather than being distributed inland. He blames that on Trump. HERE'S WHAT HE DOESN'T TELL YOU.
Fema has already distributed all of its relief supplies and the stuff sitting on the docks is commercial & private containers that do not belong to the government.
But rderp being the leftist hack he is may not even know that because all he listens to is leftist hate.

But I digress, is it a coincidence that the areas that struggle to recover the most are almost always governed by lefties?

You seem to struggle with cause and effect

Poor areas of the country tend to elect Democrats because Republicans will do nothing for them
They elect Democrats because they are poor........they are NOT poor because they elect Democrats

Why do poor people constantly expect the government to do for them. Why don't they do for themselves for a change?

Yet they remain poor after having elected Democrats for years.

On the national level, there are 63 congressional districts where more than 20% use food stamps. 54 are represented by Democrats. Many of them are gerrymandered to have a majority minority (usually a black majority). 6 of those districts where >20% food stamp users reside are in my State and the States directly north and south of me. 5 of those districts are Blue and all 5 of the blue ones have black representatives and either a black majority or damn near a black majority. Sad part is they've been poor districts for years and continue to elect democrats.

We are a great nation

Great nations help those who need help

Great nations make then distinction between those that didn't cause their own problem/want to better themselves and those that caused their own misery/don't want to be better. Great nations help the former and hold the latter responsible. Liberals want to enable the latter to continue being freeloaders.