Here is the reality:
“We celebrate the $30 billion milestone because this translates into an unprecedented and comprehensive reconstruction for this and future generations. Through these funds, Puerto Rico will experience a resilient recovery, so essential in planning for future atmospheric events,” explained Federal Disaster Recovery Coordinator José G. Baquero.—April 16, 2023.
Trump spouts bullshit.
He LOVES to say he was the BEST to Puerto Rico.
“To get to the $91 billion figure, a senior administration official told us Trump is including the total allocation for Puerto Rico — $41 billion — plus an estimated $50 billion in future FEMA costs ‘over the life of the disaster,’ which can stretch decades.“
So, surprise, he is CURRENTLY lying.
Also by the end of that year, Puerto Rico had only received 11.2 billion.
https://www.factcheck.org/2019/04/trump-misleads-on-aid-to-puerto-rico/
Over $91 Billie was approved by Congress for Puerto Rico and yet he only RELEASED a little over 11 billion after hurricane Maria. The REST he made sure was tied up in red tape.
Because he thought it was a country.
"Puerto Rico got 91 Billion Dollars for the hurricane, more money than has ever been gotten for a hurricane before, & all their local politicians do is complain & ask for more money. The pols are grossly incompetent, spend the money foolishly or corruptly, & only take from USA...."
This is what he said at his inauguration:
“Mothers and children trapped in poverty in our inner cities, rusted out factories scattered like tombstones across the landscape of our nation, an education system flush with cash, but which leaves our young and beautiful students deprived of all knowledge and the crime and the gangs and the drugs that have stolen too many lives and robbed our country of so much unrealized potential. This American carnage stops right here and stops right now.”
“Trump, for his part, has repeatedly called the entire United States a ‘garbage can’ and attacked Democrats as ‘the enemy from within’ and even suggested that the military could be used against them.”
Does Trump say even ONE THING positive about our country?
We are all Americans and yet he only appeals to a minority of Americans (about 30% are hardcore Trump).
All I hear from him is how America is lousy. He didn’t know that Puerto Rico was part of the US.
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“If I found out Emma was going to the voting booth and pulling the lever for Harris, that’s the same thing as having an affair. That violates the sanctity of our marriage. What else is she keeping from me? What is she lying about? Why would she do that and vote Harris? Why would she say she was voting… If I caught her and she said, ‘I lied to you for the last four years.’”
I hope she does vote for Harris and files for divorce.
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/jesse-watters-says-wife-voting-141510139.html
That DESTROYED 32% of the US savings and loans—HALF A TRILLION dollars taken from the American people.
Musk thinks the cost will present a “hardship”—no, it will mean deaths. That’s what happens when people can’t afford to eat, can’t afford medicine, can’t afford basic meals.
He won’t suffer. The rich never do.
Second,
The idea that crashing the economy is a “solution” is just dumb. Greece is still fragile as fuck. Musk wouldn’t feel the pain, he just wants cheap employees.
There is no “temporary pain”—it’s an idiots view.
Third, there is no way to predict how long it would take to recover. The Great Depression lasted ten years and was devastating. The Great Recession was two and destroyed one of the largest banks in the US.
A fucking bank
Reagan/Bush oversaw the Savings and Loan debacle that… 4/
This isn’t difficult to understand, yet Musk manages to fail anyway: in the same way Twitter is now worth less (WAY less) than Truth Social—seriously.
Musk is a younger Trump. But Musk actually IS on drugs. And is just as dumb.
First, the debt was created by Republicans, who have no problem using other countries as a credit card to cut taxes. Democrats actually LIKE paying the bills. Republicans prefer letting their children do it.
Tax and spend is ALWAYS BETTER than borrow and spend.
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So Musk is we INTENTIONALLY crash our economy to “ensure a better future”—which sounds fine if you have foreign investments and don’t need American dollars which will be worthless as the value of the dollar plummets.
And what about food? It will skyrocket. Wages? Also plummet. Jobs? They will vanish. Think 1929 without the fun.
Musk forgets he DEPENDS on government largesse. Hard to do that when few people make enough money to buy things.
JFC did he fall asleep during his Econ classes?
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Musk re: debt: “Most importantly, we have to reduce spending to live within our means,” he said, adding that these efforts will “involve some temporary hardship, but it will ensure long-term prosperity.”
This is dumb. It’s a child’s view of economics.
This happened to Greece (involuntarily) 2007-2008. “Temporary”? Almost ONE OUT OF TEN Greeks is CURRENTLY unemployed after sixteen years.
Billionaires don’t suffer. That isn’t temporary. Musk is just fucking dumb.
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https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/reidout-blog/elon-musk-trump-hardship-austerity-taxes-rcna177732
He doesn’t know that the internet doesn’t forget.
He said it and can’t back it up.
https://www.factcheck.org/2019/04/trump-misleads-on-aid-to-puerto-rico/
Trump: "I don't know who (Tony Hinchcliffe) is...I know nothing about him. I love Puerto Rico and Puerto Rico loves me."
Tony was performing at YOUR RALLY. You vetted him, did you not?
“… only take from the USA”—someone didnt know it was PART of the USA.
He doesn’t like Puerto Rico one bit. And what they were complaining about was Trump preventing the money and supplies being RELEASED to Puerto Rico.
Because he thought it was another country.
Alfred said I’m whimsical…
“@Alfred
@feloneouscat It seems like you're talking about a hypothetical scenario of cooling something down to near absolute zero and using it as a weapon, possibly in a playful or humorous way. The idea of leaving someone with freezer burn adds a whimsical twist”
I know the first word I think of when I hear “freezer burn” is whimsy…
“A Woman Died After Being Told It Would Be a “Crime” to Intervene in Her Miscarriage at a Texas Hospital”
I got four or five paragraphs in and started crying.
This shit is fucking evil.
https://www.propublica.org/article/josseli-barnica-death-miscarriage-texas-abortion-ban
“If I wanted government in my body, I’d fuck a politician” #Feminist #FuckCancer #LGBTQ #BLM #Ally #RetiredEngineer #HearingImpaired #HorseParent