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2019-06-30 Caribbean-Latin America

'It's all stuck': FEMA struggling to pay out disaster aid in Puerto Rico

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Posted by Besoeker 2019-06-30 05:33|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 Good money after bad. If someone doesn't stop it soon, the US tax payer will be funding these island layabouts 10 years from now.

Posted by Besoeker 2019-06-30 05:36|| 2019-06-30 05:36|| Front Page Top

#2 Puerto Rico makes Chicago looks like modern efficient Scandinavian government. It's a one party criminal organization that is nothing but Caracas with a line to the US Treasury. Things don't get done till the 'right' people are hired or paid. FEMA is stuck with US laws that eventually show where the money went and those officials don't want to go jail if stuff that is occurring gets out. If we really had a 'media' the amount of official obstruction and theft would have appalled decent America. Place should have been put under marital law and rebuilt a la Germany, Japan, and Iraq before being put back in the hands of the pols.

Posted by Procopius2k 2019-06-30 07:27|| 2019-06-30 07:27|| Front Page Top

#3 Dennis, the FEMA representative, confirmed that the territory’s debt contributed to the decision to require an “additional level of review” for funding but said that FEMA recently removed that added scrutiny in March on the grounds that the commonwealth government demonstrated that it could successfully track the money.

Reads to me as "ripe for corruption by locals." That's likely the sticking point in distributing funds.

Posted by JohnQC 2019-06-30 10:42|| 2019-06-30 10:42|| Front Page Top

#4 We haven't heard anything from the lefty woman mayor in the Michael Kinsley glasses for a while. I wonder who shut her up?

Posted by M. Murcek 2019-06-30 11:20|| 2019-06-30 11:20|| Front Page Top

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