(10-12-2017 02:17 PM)Kaplony Wrote:  

(10-12-2017 02:05 PM)Fort Bend Owl Wrote:  

(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

So why wasn't the Jones Act an issue when Obama was in office and when Democrats held overwhelming majorities in both houses of Congress?


AT this point there is no need for a temporary lifting of the act because the problem on the island remains the fact that due to third world level infrastructure BEFORE the hurricane the roads are still closed. There is absolutely nothing that a merchant ship flying a foreign flag can do to remedy that.

At this point the questions about he Jones Act should be directed to the legislative branch because what you are proposing, a repeal, isn't a function of the executive branch.


Now unless you can point out concrete evidence of how the Jones Act is hindering the relief efforts you would probably best be served by dropping that talking point and trying to find another one.

I have nothing else to add. Except ironically seven years ago the Heritage Foundation was trying to figure out why President Obama wasn't lifting the Jones Act after the Gulf of Mexico oil spill. They noted Bush lifted the Jones Act for 18 days after Katrina but Obama wouldn't do it after the oil spill. And this was almost 3 months after the spill.

So I guess the general consensus then must be the Jones Act is liberal politics, and lifting it is the proper conservative thing to do. So I guess it's just another reason why Trump is too liberal for all of you.

http://www.heritage.org/environment/comm...-jones-act