Trump responded well to the hurricane and aid is increasing, so what are you talking about? FEMA and PR government are actually in charge of aid distribution now, which we are definitely giving them*.
*thousands of military personnel to help, Navy/Marine/AF help, USNS medical, USS Kearsarge rescues, ships, airships, waive of Jones Act to help shipments, over 45k pounds in relief supplies. Most of the airships will be used for water, generators, etc etc as well. Northern Command is also helping FEMA. Google it and open up CNN for some lists.
Why? As far as I can tell the FEMA guys are federal employees doing the work they are supposed to be doing in US soil. Volunteers are different of course but that is a non issue. I can't fathom anyone saying anything like this to, say, the houston folk. And even if the PR government was being as incompetent as you suggest, why would that be a factor? The logic here can't be that the PR government is inept hence fuck the PR people. As for the aids... without that people would be essentially cut of from basic supplies.
The goal should never be indefinite stay, even in Houston.
And true, they are, but just because they are federal employees (temporary, as I understand it) it doesn't mean they should be kept indefinitely in a position like this largely due to neglect of the local government. Or to be blamed like they are being blamed when they are doing everything they can with limited resources, man power and help from the local government.
This same thing (poor coordination, FEMA work etc) happened with Hurricane Katrina in 2005. FEMA was there, but they weren't able to really do anything due to poor management by the state and inefficient access to the things they needed. After all, they merely coordinate via FCO to federal and state groups who
actually do the relief efforts. FEMA can't do everything. They need to work in conjunction with the [local] government, which is just not happening as efficiently as it should.
The whole of PR government isn't necessarily incompetent, didn't mean to suggest that, just one particular mayor or so. The rest is just failed infrastructure due to the hurricane and then neglect at getting it fixed/handled. Nothing is actually be done because that is the real problem here. Can't deliver food to most people, or water, or clothes, or power etc. We can give as much as we can possibly give, but it won't make a difference if no one is there to operate trucks, manage storage, deliveries, clear roads etc. A few thousand of our military service members popping over isn't going to cut it, won't, not for a while. If we want to return life to normal or at least something close to it, we need to get things done now and get thousands of people back home as quickly as we can. Which means getting the PR government to actually help.
And why would it be a factor? Because if we're dropping stuff to them or bringing it in, how do you expect it to help anyone if it is stock in storage units, on immobile trucks or offloaded on docks to be sent somewhere were a small percentage of it is actually going out? If the government can't properly utilize the help we're giving them, it is doing nothing of real change. Until roads, power, water is properly dealt with (which is one of the mayors' responsibilities to be overseeing and conducting but is oddly falling directly on the shoulders of FEMA), people and PR will continue to suffer—no matter how much we give them.
Even with the aid people are already screwed, the aid in question doing nothing as you suggest is absurd...
That's not what I was trying to suggest at all. I was saying our aid is doing nothing (very little of it is actually going out to the people, feel free to google it) because the PR government isn't doing anything to help with infrastructure, which is how the aid gets distributed, not that aid itself does nothing and so we shouldn't give it.
That is one reason why Cruz not talking with or visiting FEMA/FCO is a problem. She's got time to make custom t-shirts though while little children starve because she can't be bothered to help fix or coordinate infrastructure repair and relief (with FEMA) to deliver aid to the people who need it. Which prolongs our stay.
That's quite offensive because half my family is from Southern Europe but they are not "white". Trust me, "white" is extremely exculsive which is bullshit.