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Old 10-12-2017, 11:21 AM  
Steve Rupe
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Originally Posted by sarettah View Post
Hurricane Maria struck Puerto Rico on September 20, 2017.

On October 12, 2017, 3 weeks later, President Trump tweeted:



https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump

However, if you look at FEMA's website at FEMA.gov you will find that as of 2015 (the last time the page was updated) FEMA was still involved in the recovery efforts from Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans and Mississippi. Hurricane Katrina struck in 2005. That was 10 years before the article was written. There are updates to some Katrina pages into 2016. I have not found anything saying that we are not still involved in the Katrina recovery today, 12 years after the hurricane hit.

https://www.fema.gov/news-release/20...ricane-katrina



My question is, How come American Citizens in New Orleans and Mississippi are worthy of receiving aid 10 years after the disaster and there is not a peep out of the President but he is complaining about American Citizens in Puerto Rico receiving aid 3 weeks after their catastrophe? Why are the people of the mainland United States more entitled to help then the people of Puerto Rico are?

In my opinion we should help Puerto Rico until they do not need the help any more, just like any other part of the United States.

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Possibly one reason is that PR is not a state so legally the obligation may not be the same. At one point the Donald said something about wiping out PR's debt but we will have to wait and see as what the Donald says and does are often not the same.
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