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Jones Act and Puerto Rico
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Jones Act and Puerto Rico
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09-27-2017, 05:37 PM
As you know Puerto Rico was struck by Hurricane María destroying infrastructure and creating a humanitarian crisis. Now, unlike with Harvey or Katrina, the US government is refusing to waive the Jones act for Puerto Rico-This means that any country that wants to help by sending much needed supplies cannot do so directly. They will have to bring it to the mainland, offload the ship, transfer the cargo to an american merchant marine vessel, and then that vessel can take the aid to Puerto Rico.

In these kind of emergencies, that type of delay will result in things getting worse.

So, I am asking that if you are willing, call your Senators and Representatives in Congress to waive the Jones Act during recovery efforts.

Puerto Rico needs as much help as possible.

References:

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2017...707448001/

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/...uerto-rico

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-storm...SKCN1C12UI

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/pu...act-waiver

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/wha...ng-n805101
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RE: Jones Act and Puerto Rico
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09-28-2017, 11:02 AM
White House lifts shipping restrictions to hurricane-hit Puerto Rico - for ten days.
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RE: Jones Act and Puerto Rico
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09-28-2017, 03:56 PM
At least is something.
“We can never undo what we have done. We can never go back in time. We write history with our decisions and our actions. But we also write history with our responses to those actions. We can leave the pain and the damage in our wake, unattended, or we can do the work of acknowledging and fixing, to whatever extent possible, the harm that we have caused.”

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RE: Jones Act and Puerto Rico
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10-01-2017, 11:15 AM
For all of ten days. Just long enough to say 'Hey, it's not working at all' and refuse to extend it.

I love the smell of rotaries in the morning. You know one time, I got to work early, before the rush hour. I walked through the empty carpark, I didn't see one bloody Prius or Golf. And that smell, you know that gasoline smell, the whole carpark, smelled like.... ....speed.

One day they're going to ban them.
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RE: Jones Act and Puerto Rico
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10-02-2017, 07:02 AM
I'll just leave these here...

Severe shortages plunge Puerto Ricans into struggle for survival

Trump slams mayors of Puerto Rico for wanting 'everything done for them'
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RE: Jones Act and Puerto Rico
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10-03-2017, 02:00 PM
Every time I think my opinion of Trump couldn't get any worse, he says something like this.

Trump said "every death is a horror, but if you look at a real catastrophe like Katrina and you look at the tremendous hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of people that died, and you look at what happened here with really a storm that was totally overpowering … you can be very proud of all of your people, all of our people working together."

From what he said, the devastation caused by Hurricane Maria wasn't "a real catastrophe" (his exact words).
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RE: Jones Act and Puerto Rico
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10-03-2017, 03:25 PM
Of course it wasn't. It's just Puerto Rico, and those people aren't allowed to vote in the elections that matter.

And even if they could vote in the elections that matter they're all latino, so not really people to him anyway.
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