Trump at 600 days plus

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Bar Sinister said:
Why were back up generators not working? Why is Puerto Rico always considered an afterthought so far as US legislators are concerned?
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A lot of the corruption charges are based on this, mismanagement

PREPA
is responsible for $9bn of Puerto Rico’s $73bn of debt. As PREPA and other agencies borrowed billions of dollars from international creditors (and from each other, a practice some have compared to a Ponzi scheme), the utility started skimping on maintenance. In 2014 an austerity law prompted hundreds of experienced employees to retire and claim their pensions before cuts took effect. They were never replaced. The result, according to Synapse’s report, was generator failures, blackout rates four times higher than other American utilities, rising consumer costs, environmental violations and an increasing numbers of worker injuries and fatalities. A three-day blackout in 2016 caused by a fire at the Aguirre plant foreshadowed the darkness and economic standstill Hurricane Maria would bring. “We took the risk and we are paying the price,” says Mr Torres, peering at his poster.
In the aftermath of the hurricane, debate is swirling about how to fix the electrical system and who should pay. “We must rebuild better,” Governor Ricardo Rosselló has said, voicing enthusiasm for a proposal from Elon Musk, founder of Tesla, to deploy solar panels and batteries throughout the island to decrease dependence on the weak grid. This is a fine idea, but also an expensive one. Besides, federal emergency aid—the House of Representatives approved a $36.5bn package on October 12th, though only a fraction will go to Puerto Rico—can typically be used only to reconstruct what existed before the disaster.
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Who was POTUS in 2014 again?

Puerto Rico faced a crisis
even before Hurricane Maria, and it requires serious investment if it is to ever resolve the existential issues that are driving thousands of residents off the island. The federal government’s response to the island’s problems has been racist and otherwise despicable.
— Dennis Schaal

Last week, more than 800,000 Puerto Rico utility customers lost power when a single tree fell on a transmission line.
A month earlier, another line failure affected hundreds of thousands, while a substation fire crippled power plants in February. Then, there was the November blackout, which hit San Juan just as it celebrated the milestone of 50 percent power generation after Hurricane Maria last year.
Now it’s happened yet again.
An island-wide power failure shut down businesses Wednesday and prompted the international airport to operate on generators. The island’s power utility said it could take 24 to 36 hours to restore service.
“Back to September 20th,” San Juan Mayor Carmen Yulin Cruz tweeted, a reference to the day Hurricane Maria mowed down the island and its power grid. She tagged comedian Stephen Colbert, among others.
Indeed, Puerto Rico’s blackouts have become so common that they’re now a running joke — albeit a sad, debilitating one, affecting the well-being of the island’s 3.3 million residents, who are U.S. citizens
The repeated episodes underscore how fragile the island’s Hurricane Maria recovery remains even as the next hurricane season is less than two months away. They also highlight how badly the island needs to undertake an overhaul of the power grid, which was considered inefficient and vulnerable even before it was obliterated by the Category 4 hurricane in September. A redesign is in the government’s plans, but there’s no chance it will get that done before tropical storms start churning through the Caribbean again this summer.
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Consumer sentiment posted a robust rise in early September, reaching 100.8, the second highest level since 2004-only behind the March 2018 reading of 101.4. Importantly, the gains were widespread across all major socioeconomic subgroups. The Expectations Index reached its highest level since July 2004, largely due to more favorable prospects for jobs and incomes http://www.sca.isr.umich.edu/

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Markets 2 days ago:

China’s Stocks Drop to Lowest Level in Nearly Four Years

China’s sinking stock market reached an unwelcome milestone, with the Shanghai Composite Index closing at the lowest level since 2014, erasing the last traces of its recovery from a boom that turned into a $5 trillion bust.

The Shanghai gauge dropped 1.1 percent to 2,651.79, below its January 2016 bottom. Back then, officials had just introduced and then hastily scrapped a disastrous circuit-breaker program as they grappled with one of the market’s worst-ever routs.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/arti...nk-past-lowest-level-seen-in-5-trillion-crash

Well, hoid's political system sucks.
 
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Walter said:
Yes, Donald J. Trump is now 600 days into his presidency. MAGA
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Yes but 205 of those days were at one of his properties playing golf. Remember when he said as president he would never play golf? He said that when he was attacking Obama who played gold once in a while.
 
Walter

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Christianna said:
Yes but 205 of those days were at one of his properties playing golf. Remember when he said as president he would never play golf? He said that when he was attacking Obama who played gold once in a while.
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Please post a link showing us Trump said he wouldn’t play golf as POTUS.
 
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