Posted on Oct 14, 2017
'Get Us Out Of Here': Amid Broken Infrastructure, Puerto Ricans Flee To Florida
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You know they keep posting this bs- we have boots on the ground and troops from our unit that are friends as well as friends I have that live on the island talk a completely different game. They are worried and tired- but working to restore normalcy. The crap spewed by a reporter that has an agenda seems to be the issue. I served with several that lived in PR and when finished with their AD time they returned. I have people working with me from PR and their families are all reporting things are going as well as expected. If we really want to help- listing agencies requesting donations or organizing essential needs to send to them would be a more fitting thing to post on this.
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Sadly, the popular assault on President Trump and his Administration is drowning out some of his rational commentary. The sad truth is that Puerto Rico has been destroyed and must be rebuilt. Are we to rebuild it as it was, with a corrupt government in bankruptcy? Who will pay for it? Sadly, the treasure of the United States has been squandered on well-intentioned and disastrous social programs as well as a bloated government that has grown cancerously beyond its Constitutionally defined limits. Don't blame Trump. He didn't govern Puerto Rico. He didn't build the District of Columbia. Blame yourself, all of us, We the People. We beg for term limits so we can clean House and the Senate too. Why? We could have cleaned anytime we wanted. All we had to do was vote like rational citizens. And now the full fruits of this madness have ripened, we blame President Trump. Long before he opened his mouth, I proposed that we evacuate the island, leaving only a small colony to maintain sovereignty while we figure it out. I suspect that more rational people will buy the island and develop it anew. I suspect that Bacardi, the rum that made Cuba famous, then made Puerto Rico famous, will find some other Caribbean haven to make famous. Puerto Rico is now destined to languish for a long, long time. Nature will reclaim it until we are ready to reclaim it anew.
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Capt Dwayne Conyers
We want (and need) Trump to be successful — just like passengers need their pilot to be successful. But if the pilot is flying off course, should you want us to keep silent?
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CPT Jack Durish
Capt Dwayne Conyers - Do we toss him out of the cockpit and take over? That depends. Do you know how to fly an airliner? What makes you think it's off course? Do you have credible evidence or are you merely being excited by that clown in the seat next to you who has a fear of flying and is screaming "We're doomed!"? That's the problem. We have lots of people screaming "We're doomed!" but every time I try to see what they're seeing, I only see hate and petulance. I hear misinformation, propaganda, false narratives. I don't know if you're old enough to remember President Reagan's Administration but there were many similarities to what is going on today. Many referred to Reagan as a "Cowboy" who was going to get us into war. When the Libyans bombed a German nightclub and killed a bunch of American service members, Reagan sent the bombers to all of Qaddafi's haunts, and many Americans thought for sure there would be reprisals. There weren't. When Reagan said we were at war with the "Evil Empire", many Americans ducked for cover fearing that the bombs would start falling any moment. The only thing that fell was the Soviet Union. I want the world to have a healthy fear or respect of US. Appeasement, such as President Obama pursued, only emboldened our enemies. We need Trump after Obama just as we need Reagan after Carter. Thus far, Trump is doing pretty much the job I voted for. No, he's no Reagan. Reagan had a wit and wisdom that disarmed people, even his political enemies. Remember the outpouring of affection when Reagan died, with crowds lining his funeral route. Do you think that will happen for Presidents Carter, Clinton, Bush, or Obama? Not bloody likely. Will Trump reach that popularity? Not bloody likely, but that's not what I'm looking for, not at this time.
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Capt Dwayne Conyers
CPT Jack Durish, RWR was my first vote cast as a young teen and I wrote a video to train him on properly encrypting his phone calls. I was young and politically inexperienced but had confidence in RWR’s swagger.
DJT’s “swagger” — which many of us with New York roots are well too familiar with — does not come close to Reagan’s.
DJT’s “swagger” — which many of us with New York roots are well too familiar with — does not come close to Reagan’s.
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If enough leave the island, imagine the land grab that could result. Small villages become casinos. Tourism invigorated.
Just a conjecture...
Just a conjecture...
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1stSgt Nelson Kerr
Perhaps that is the intent, but most seem to be from the interior it seems and that is a not all that useful to developers and the other parasites,
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Capt Dwayne Conyers
I have been all over the island, 1stSgt Nelson Kerr. There are areas of the interior I've visited and thought, if only I had the money to...
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1stSgt Nelson Kerr
Capt Dwayne Conyers - Building resort in many of those places would be another matter I think, as ;east without destruction what makes i beautiful
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