Report: Puerto Rico Teamsters Union, “Frente Amplio”, Refuse to Deliver Supplies – Use Hurricane Maria as Contract Leverage…

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Puerto Rican born and raised, Colonel Michael A. Valle (”Torch”), Commander, 101st Air and Space Operations Group, and Director of the Joint Air Component Coordination Element, 1st Air Force, responsible for Hurricane Maria relief efforts, has the following comment:

…They have the generators, water, food, medicine, and fuel on the ground, yet the supplies are not moving across the island as quickly as they’re needed.

“It’s a lack of drivers for the transport trucks, the 18 wheelers. Supplies we have. Trucks we have. There are ships full of supplies, backed up in the ports, waiting to have a vehicle to unload into. However, only 20% of the truck drivers show up to work. These are private citizens in Puerto Rico, paid by companies that are contracted by the government”.. (link)

The ports are so full of relief supplies they can’t fit any more on the available space. CNBC ground report confirms Colonel Valle’s ground report.  WATCH:

https://youtu.be/f4Z01o4tBlI

The reason for truck drivers not showing up?  The Puerto Rican Teamsters Union, Frente Amplio, is refusing to move the product.

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Liberals sit on their asses and point fingers.

Whereas you, devoid of understanding and human compassion, stand and salute Donald Trump with your heads up your asses…

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OPINION: Is Donald Trump really a moron? Duh

We’ve reached the stage of the Trump presidency when the secretary of State has to call a news conference to deny that he called the president a “moron” — and then he doesn’t actually deny it.
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With almost every word he utters and almost every action he takes, Trump raises fresh questions about his mental fitness for office. Just consider his response to Hurricane Maria, which has caused devastating damage to Puerto Rico.

The president was oblivious to the size of the catastrophe during the four days after Maria made landfall on Sept. 20. He was too busy hanging out at his golf club and lashing out at NFL players for not standing during the national anthem. Not smart — but perhaps understandable. Everyone makes mistakes. What was inexcusably dumb was his next move.

San Juan Mayor Carmen Yulin Cruz was “begging anyone who can hear us to save us from dying,” and expressing her frustration “with the inefficiency and the bureaucracy.” Trump does not take kindly to being criticized by anyone, but he appears to have a particularly short fuse for criticisms from women or minorities.* Without evidently giving it much thought, he took to Twitter early Saturday from his golf club in Bedminster, N.J., to fire back:

“The Mayor of San Juan, who was very complimentary only a few days ago, has now been told by the Democrats that you must be nasty to Trump. … Such poor leadership ability by the Mayor of San Juan, and others in Puerto Rico, who are not able to get their workers to help. They … want everything to be done for them when it should be a community effort. 10,000 Federal workers now on Island doing a fantastic job.”

It’s hard to imagine anything more moronic than a president using crude racial stereotypes about supposedly lazy Latinos to criticize hurricane survivors, or picking a needless fight with a mayor after a major disaster. Yet this was the second time this year he has done just that: In June, Trump castigated the mayor of London (a Muslim, by the way) as “pathetic” after a terrorist attack.

* Possibly because his fuse isn’t the only thing about him that’s unusually short.

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@Greg: So, what is more compassionate? Getting the aid where it needs to go and expecting it to be distributed to the people that are in dire need of it or camping out in front of cameras and propagandists and bitching about everything not being fixed immediately?

Lack of compassion is taking time away from serving those in need to turn this catastrophe into a political circus, and that is what Cruz is doing. You liberals lack compassion in this and every tragic situation because you try to turn them ALL into a political gambit.

Don’t give me your “compassion” shit. Liberals are devoid of compassion.

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If you don’t want a political circus, perhaps someone should separate your goofball ringmaster from his Twitter account.

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Nearly 3 weeks after Hurricane Maria, distributing aid across Puerto Rico is a mess

It isn’t because of striking teamsters, or because of debt issues, or because lazy liberal Puerto Ricans would rather wait for their lunches to be delivered or hold out their tin cups than work. It’s because the entire infrastructure was severely damaged from one end of the island to the other.

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@Greg: It really chaps the libtard’s asses that their lib news services can’t control the news on Trump. He sets the agenda and that sets them off. So funny

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@Greg:

It’s because the entire infrastructure was severely damaged from one end of the island to the other.

You left out your opinion of why that’s the fault of the Trump Admin.

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@Greg:

OPINION: Is Donald Trump really a moron? Duh

I fail to see the point of attemting to judge if someone is ‘moron’ level or not. Just for your info, that would be about 3 steps up from Obozo’s level and about 2 above Hillary. So don’t be looking down on anyone that has acheived ‘moron’ level when you are in the company of so many that are still attempting to achieve it. I think the levels are 1. Vegetable, 2, imbecile, 3. Idiot, 4. moron.

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@Redteam: @Redteam, #57:

You left out your opinion of why that’s the fault of the Trump Admin.

Why did Trump take the Mayor of San Juan’s words so personally to begin with? She was talking about the reality of the dire situation on the island. He could have addressed or disputed the issues she raised. Instead, he launched a highly personal public attack.

Trump made it all about Trump. He always does this.

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Desperate fight to avoid shortage of saline solution in the US after destruction at production plants in Puerto Rico

Puerto Rico manufacturing facilities of one of the world’s largest makers of saline solution were damaged by Hurricane Maria

Saline solution is used in in hospitals for IV delivery of countless medications, including chemotherapy and renal therapies

The company said it has lost multiple days of production, and is sending rationed shipments to hospitals

Saline solution shortages have been a concern in the US since 2013, amid ongoing antitrust investigations

Half of the world’s leading prescription drugs are manufactured in Puerto Rico

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@Greg:

If you don’t want a political circus, perhaps someone should separate your goofball ringmaster from his Twitter account.

That is a situation that exists solely in the hateful liberal mind. False accusation were aimed at Trump and he slapped them down. Don’t want trouble? Don’t CAUSE trouble.

It’s because the entire infrastructure was severely damaged from one end of the island to the other.

So why, then, does the left want to try and turn it into a racist, political circus? There would be no controversy if whiny bitch publicity whore Cruz had not turned it into a Trump hate-fest.

OPINION: Is Donald Trump really a moron? Duh

Yeah, that was NBC’s “opinion”, but Tillerson smacked that down. Fake news, fake news, fake news. If liberals didn’t lie, they’d have nothing to say.

Why did Trump take the Mayor of San Juan’s words so personally to begin with?

SHE took it there. She saw cameras and knew if she vomited anti-Trump lies into CNN microphones, she’d be a liberal darling. Trump takes his job seriously. Liberals just make sure they have someone to blame. Blame and point fingers; the one and only attribute of the liberal.

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