(10-12-2017 01:18 PM)Kaplony Wrote:  

(10-11-2017 02:47 PM)Owl 69/70/75 Wrote:  

(10-11-2017 11:59 AM)Redwingtom Wrote:  Death toll rises to 45.
I wonder which NFL game trump and pence are planning to pull a stunt at this weekend?

Puerto Rico is a terrible tragedy and a hell of a mess. You seem to be wanting to say that Trump could do something he is not doing to make it better. What would that be?

In fact, just a generic question, how could the response be better?

You don't expect a realistic answer do you? Those kind of answers can't be gleaned from the leftist talking points being put out there right now. Just like the electricity still being out for the majority of the island was a talking point for FBO's rant about the Jones Act despite the fact that you can't deliver electricity on a merchant ship regardless of which country's flag it flies.

No but their economy will go nowhere without electricity. They have no way to pay for their bills. The last thing we need to do is to be charging a broke country even more for commodities like oil and other goods. Any other country besides Puerto Rico is being charged less for products from the U.S. than Puerto Rico.

In fact, economists have estimated that just from 1970 to 2012, the Jones Act raised the costs of bringing all sorts of goods into Puerto Rico by nearly $29 billion.

It's an old law, we don't need to be getting rich off Puerto Rico.

http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2017/10/1...overy.html