Saturday, October 7, 2017

Puerto Rico and More Media Lies

I'm just going to point this out because of the incessant lies by the corporate mainstream media really annoys me sometimes.


First this reporter tells us and interviews someone who says they don't have any electricity or internet, then at 5:27 or so into the video she claims that people in Puerto Rico were upset by Trump's tweets. How would they possibly know what he tweeted if they had no internet connection? We had been told that the cell towers were down in Puerto Rico and that there is no electrical system left. She then goes into how this is worse than Katrina even though they have lost only 16 people and in Katrina they lost almost 1,500 people; but, she assures us it is worse in Puerto Rico because people lost everything. Does she not know that even more people lost everything in Katrina? That many have had to move from Louisiana because of it for the rest of their lives?

Lets be honest, we dedicated $9 billion and sent 10,000 people to Puerto Rico which is more than 1/10th of their national debt ($72 billion) and is the same as the debt for their electrical company alone. If the United Sates mainland loses it's electrical grid, will Puerto Rico give us $1.8 trillion (1/10th our national debt)? I think not. She complains that Trump is discussing the debt and costs while he is the only one saying their debt needs to be restricted. Yes, Trump discussed the debt and the need to relieve them of it. In fact all of the interviews she showed were of Puerto Ricans saying give Trump a chance and then judge him. Watch the video above, listen to what she says and what the people she interviewed say then listen to what she said people felt. Which people, not the one's she interviewed.

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