Trumps Emergency Response In Puerto Rico Is A Massive Moral Failure

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http://www.politicususa.com/2017/10/29/trumps-emergency-response-puerto-rico-massive-moral-failure.html

Trump’s Emergency Response In Puerto Rico Is A Massive Moral Failure

By Robert Franek on Sun, Oct 29th, 2017 at 8:56 am

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It is utterly disgraceful that the federal government has not only delayed getting necessary humanitarian aid to it’s own citizens, but is now letting people die from having to live in such dangerous conditions. The report from the nurses who were on the ground in Puerto Rico is heartbreaking and demands immediate action to address these life-threatening conditions.

The emergency response to this humanitarian crisis is now further complicated by the scandal surrounding the Whitefish energy contract.

Donald Trump has not only made insensitive and offensive comments regarding the crisis, he was slow to get necessary supplies to the island along with an organized system of distribution, and now is in way over his head with an epic energy scandal that more than its ethical and legal problems finally fails the citizens of Puerto Rico who are in desperate need of their power grid being restored. Notwithstanding, the fact that FEMA has required seemingly endless forms to be filled out online when there is very limited access to power.

This past week Senator Jeff Flake (R-AZ) joined Senator Bob Corker (R-TN) in finding his moral voice to call out the danger Trump is to our democracy as well as the indecency of much of Trump’s behavior. Both senators have have been praised for their courage in speaking out albeit after announcing their retirement not needing to face voters or perhaps even more importantly their donors. Still they were rightly blasted by Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) for not having the courage of their newly found moral voice to vote against Trump and for the middle-class. Speeches are great. They can even be cathartic, inspiring, and hope inducing as senators finally say publicly what needed to be said long ago. However, it is the votes that finally matter. It is the votes that ultimately affect people’s lives.

While Senators Flake and Corker voted with Trump, Wells Fargo, and other big banks last week, the people of Puerto Rico, citizens to whom Trump and the Congress are accountable, are crying out in desperation for help. The American citizens who live on this small island are dying, not from the hurricane but from the effects of delayed and mismanaged emergency response efforts like leptospirosis.

This is nothing less than a massive moral failure that demands Republicans in Congress show leadership in addressing the ongoing humanitarian crisis in Puerto Rico. It would be good if Senators Corker and Flake used their newly found public moral voices in showing outrage against President Donald Trump to not only call out his failure and offensiveness in responding to the aftermath of a category five hurricane that devastated and American Territory, but also to demand immediate action in addressing the life-threatening conditions facing the citizens of Puerto Rico and by supporting legislation that increases federal disaster aid and prioritizes spending on fixing the power grid (with and ethically and legally responsible contract).

Congressional Republicans are quick to scream religious freedom when they think respecting pluralism is infringing on the practice of their faith. However, where is the religious responsibility that comes with faith? Where is the treatment of every human being as one created in the image of God? Where is the love your neighbor ethic rooted in Leviticus and made new by Jesus? Certainly, the American citizens of Puerto Rico would like to know. That is if they don’t die waiting.

http://www.politicususa.com/2017/10/29/trumps-emergency-response-puerto-rico-massive-moral-failure.html

[dalton99a]

1. And grounds for impeachment.

[volstork]

2. "trump" "Massive moral failure"

Yes. Exactly.

[riversedge]

3. and Dems in Congress should be shouting this from the floor every hour!