'He's a racist president': Mainland Puerto Ricans are furious over Donald Trump's debt talk amid
Source: Toronto Star
‘He’s a racist president’: Mainland Puerto Ricans are furious over Donald Trump’s debt talk amid hurricane crisis
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“I don’t remember him discussing costs when he came to Texas or when he came to Florida,” said Flores, 37, a New Jersey receptionist of Puerto Rican descent. “I’m not surprised. I followed the election, and I am from New York, so I’ve known the name Trump for a very long time. But when people are suffering and dying, and that’s my family, I’m beyond offended.”
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“It sickens me,” said Angel Vazquez, 30, a graphic designer in Atlanta who moved from Puerto Rico as a child. “He’s a racist president. He was elected because of the base that he was catering to. And he’s just someone who’s following through on exactly what he was going to say.”
“It’s really hard to talk about bankruptcy and debt when people have no power, no water, no homes, and their entire lives have been devastated,” said Julio Ricardo Varela, 48, a journalist from Puerto Rico who co-hosts the In the Thick political podcast.
“Comments like those come across as not only incredibly short-sighted and insensitive, but it just confirms how the United States, as a country, views its colonial territory. Bringing up the debt just brings up old wounds. ‘Yep, we’re a colony. You had to remind us, huh?’ The island’s destroyed, but you had to remind us that we have no control over our destiny. Thank you.”
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Read more: https://www.thestar.com/news/world/2017/09/29/hes-a-racist-president-puerto-ricans-are-furious-over-donald-trumps-debt-talk-amid-hurricane-crisis.html
Devastating article by Daniel Dale of the Star's Washington bureau. (Dale is the journalist who's well known for fact-checking Trump.)
The article concludes on an interesting note, pointing out that many Puerto Ricans whose homes and livelihoods have been destroyed might relocate to Florida, joining the PR community there, "potentially making that state more Democratic-leaning."
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he's making their unconcern and lack of empathy for the non-rich blatantly apparent.
No more hiding your evil aims, GOPee--everyone should see clearly now that they don't care whether people suffer and die.
And their insensitivity is highlighted by rolling out the plan to cut taxes for the rich the same week that Puerto Rico is suffering and dump is bloviating about PR's debt being an impediment to recovery. If the wealthy still paid a more fair tax rate, jurisdictions wouldn't have to amass so much debt.
