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Schumer to Trump: Why do you treat Puerto Ricans differently?

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Schumer to Trump: Why do you treat Puerto Ricans differently?

By Olivia Beavers - 10/12/17

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Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) on Thursday asked why President Trump is treating storm-stricken Puerto Ricans differently from other Americans. "Why do you continue to treat Puerto Ricans differently than other Americans when it comes to natural disasters?" Schumer tweeted. Trump earlier in the morning warned that the federal response to the U.S. territory cannot last "forever." "We cannot keep [the Federal Emergency Management Agency], the Military & the First Responders, who have been amazing (under the most difficult circumstances) in P.R. forever!" Trump wrote in a series of tweets on Thursday morning. He also blamed the island's debt and infrastructure issues for compounding problems. Schumer shot back, saying the administration has to continue with its recovery efforts. Approximately 10 percent of the island's 3.4 million residents have electricity, Puerto Rico's government said Tuesday. The Trump administration was criticized for its initial response to the crisis, leading Puerto Rican lawmakers to beg the president to send help and provide basic necessities like food and clean water.
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Three weeks after Hurricane Maria, 80% of Puerto Rico still lacks electricity and 45% of the population lacks access to edible food and fresh water.


Then:
Donald Trump - 29 September 2017 said:
"We will not rest ... until the people of Puerto Rico are safe. These are great people. We want them to be safe and sound and secure, and we will be there every day until that happens,"
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Yesterday: Trump: We cannot aid Puerto Rico 'forever'


Related: Trump's wildly different responses to hurricanes in Texas, Florida and Puerto Rico

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Duh....because they are brown...
 
 
Because they voted to keep themselves independent rather than becoming an US state?
 
Shameful. I'm glad to hear someone asking that question of Trump.

EDIT: Threatening them like that as they are forced to drink filthy water to stay alive. What is his plan? Pull all aide and let them die? He's even further impeding their recovery by allowing the waiver for the Jones Act expire with no further plan to extend it.

Why are these citizens being treated differently?
 
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I assure you most Trump supporters think Puerto Rico is a separate country. And most Trump supporters are totally unaware of the amount of federal support red states have been getting for years.

It's amusing to hear a federal government with a massive multi trillion dollar deficit lecture Puerto Rico about fiscal responsibility.

Let's return to tax cuts without spending cuts and roll the future GDP dice.
 
Gina said:
Shameful. I'm glad to hear someone asking that question of Trump.

EDIT: Threatening them like that as they are forced to drink filthy water to stay alive. What is his plan? Pull all aide and let them die? He's even further impeding their recovery by allowing the waiver for the Jones Act expire with no further plan to extend it.

Why are these citizens being treated differently?
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Because our president is non compos mentis.
 
The answer is simple, he's a Racist Ass-Hole
 
What is Trump doing to reduce the federal government's massive debt and deficit? How is cutting taxes (federal revenue) going to reduce the deficit? Didn't G.W. Bush cut taxes too? How did that work out?

What are we doing about our crumbling infrastructure? Seems Trump is too busy tweeting to look into those things.
 
I didn't really see a Trump response. Did he answer Schumer?
 
beefheart said:
Duh....because they are brown...
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Are they? And you believe that therefore they should be subsidized for ever? That they cannot learn to make their own livelihoods? That sounds racist.
 
dobieg said:
Because they voted to keep themselves independent rather than becoming an US state?
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To be fair, the various votes seem to vary: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/11/us/puerto-ricans-vote-on-the-question-of-statehood.html


We did take in war and make it a territory. Doesn't that have any bearing for you? If you seize land, I think you rather take responsibility for it. We could have just left it for the Spanish, but for various reasons, felt it was in our national interest to hold on. They may not be all gung ho about statehood, but again, we took it.
 
joG said:
Are they? And you believe that therefore they should be subsidized for ever? That they cannot learn to make their own livelihoods? That sounds racist.
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Do you feel that way about the people Florida or Texas, or the ones affected by fires in California?
 
Cigar said:
The answer is simple, he's a Racist Ass-Hole
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Schumer? Maybe. But I doubt Trump thinks in those categories. Rich New Yorkers think differently.
 
joG said:
Are they? And you believe that therefore they should be subsidized for ever? That they cannot learn to make their own livelihoods? That sounds racist.
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Can you suggest a better reason for threatening to withdraw within a week of his belated response?
 
If Trump was a normal politician he would fire back with the standard. He didn't know how bad Schumer and the Obama administration had let things get on the island. Then send out his folks to battle the Obama folks on Sunday morning.

Trump will end up calling Schumer a nickname, Tweet he has a small something, ask to measure, call for a congressional investigation, move on, then deny he ever said any of that.
 
Why was this not said to Texas or Florida?

Why has Puerto Rico been singled out?
 
Jetboogieman said:
Why was this not said to Texas or Florida?

Why has Puerto Rico been singled out?
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I heard FEMA was still spending $2 million a year from the last [2011] hurricane in PR. Maybe they're lazy or too dependent on the government?
 
joG said:
Rich New Yorkers think differently.
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No they don't. Money doesn't explain bigotry. And rich New Yorkers are like rich Texans or rich Floridians or rich Californians. If they were bigots or racists or insensitive morons before they achieved or inherited their wealth, they are probably the same today.

And Donald Trump's reputation for ignorance, bigotry and misogyny is well-earned because it has been so well-documented.

But in Donald's case, his views were obviously shaped by HOW he was raised, not WHERE he was raised. It's no shock that his father (Fred Trump) was once arrested along with 7 other people at a 1927 anti-Catholic KKK rally in Queens (where Donald was born and raised) that turned into a riot in which two Catholic protesters were killed. It was never documented that Fred Trump was a member of the KKK at the time; but it was noted that several of the other men were known to be Klan members....and that all seven of the men were represented by the same attorney when the posted bail.

So as reprehensible as they are, Donald comes by his views honestly.
 
WCH said:
I heard FEMA was still spending $2 million a year from the last [2011] hurricane in PR. Maybe they're lazy or too dependent on the government?
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$2 million a year?!?!? That's outrageous, that's almost an entire day of travel costs for President Trump's cabinet!
 
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