Well, Sup Forums, how does it feel that Bernie Sanders, a Senator from the tiny state of Vermont, is a better leader than President Trump? Trump has done nothing to improve Puerto Rico, but Bernie's ambitious goal will make sure that Puerto Rico has back and better than ever.
I know its tough to realize you elected an incompetent buffoon, but luckily in three years time we will have a president who truly cares about ALL American citizens, even those who aren't even states. Puerto Rico may be different than what you consider to be a "typical American" but they have no less a fighting spirit. Make no mistake, this plan will make Puerto Rico great again, greater and stronger than ever before.
>Pic related, a real leader's solution to Puerto Rico's crisis
President Bernard Sanders
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Fuck puto rico, the only thing we should send is neutron bombs.
With taxpayer money or jew-printed money?
>imlying there's a difference
>Hurricane Maria destroyed Puerto Rico’s decades-old electrical grid when it made landfall on Sept. 20, rendering millions of island inhabitants without power.
>On Tuesday, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) will unveil an ambitious $146 billion Puerto Rico recovery plan he says will allow renewable power sources such as solar and wind to provide about 70 percent of the island’s energy needs within the decade.
>The bill, which has the backing of San Juan Mayor Carmen Yulín Cruz, also calls on Congress to consider retiring Puerto Rico’s debt and would give the island billions in additional federal funding for transportation, health care and education in the hopes of stemming a feared mass exodus to the mainland. It would also allocate funds to the Virgin Islands, which were similarly devastated by Hurricane Maria.
>“This is the closest we have to a Marshall Plan for Puerto Rico,” said Ramón Luis Nieves, a former member of the Senate of Puerto Rico who has testified to Congress about the hurricane’s impacts.
Sanders's bill is highly unlikely to get a vote in Congress and is more generous even than the $94 billion requested by Ricardo Rosselló, Puerto Rico’s governor.
>Sanders’s bill would give $62 billion to help the cash-strapped Puerto Rican government; $51 billion for economic development; $27 billion for infrastructure, including new energy infrastructure; and billions more for education and environmental remediation.
>President Sanders
>cuck
>my sides
>But Puerto Rican officials say they are already working with private-sector companies to install solar panels and microgrids in remote sections of the island.
>Sanders' bill would set aside $428 million in grants for homeowners and cities for solar panels and microturbines and more than $40 million for grants to improve home energy efficiency.
>“The case for renewables is that it’s the cheapest way to do it, and certainly the cheapest in the island’s isolated communities,” said Steven Kyle, an economist at Cornell University who has reviewed Sanders’s bill. >“Since they’re starting from zero, they have a unique opportunity here.”
>Most engineers estimate that Puerto Rico could get up to 50 percent of its energy from renewable sources within the decade, according to Sergio Marxuach, public policy director at Center for a New Economy, a nonpartisan think tank on the island territory. “Seventy percent is definitely on the upper bound of what’s possible,” Marxuach said. “But, sure, if you throw enough money at a problem, you can do a lot of things.”
>In a statement, Rosselló thanked Sanders for trying to help Puerto Rico, though he stopped short of offering an endorsement of the bill. >“We are committed to rebuilding Puerto Rico smarter and stronger than ever before, but we need all the assistance we can get from the federal government,” Rosselló said. “We welcome all discussions and proposals being discussed in the United States Senate, including Senator Bernie Sanders’ proposed bill, that seek to provide the resources necessary to rebuild Puerto Rico.”
>Luis Fortuño, the former governor of Puerto Rico, said that he thought it would be a mistake to prevent transferring parts of the electrical grid into private ownership. “You need a lower cost of power, and the only way to accomplish that is through a competitive process through the private sector,” said Fortuño, who added that he hadn’t read Sanders’ proposal and that he supports its greater public investment in renewable energies.
>Experts have emphasized that the federal government should not simply replace Puerto Rico’s old grid with a new one similarly exposed to catastrophic storms.
>A senior White House official told Reuters that the administration does not support rebuilding the original vulnerable grid. Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), who chairs the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, has backed rebuilding Puerto Rico’s electrical systems with microgrids or through distributed energy — but the senator hasn't yet introduced legislation for doing so, according to a spokesperson.
>“It’d be a phenomenal mistake to spend federal tax dollars rebuilding the polluting, expensive, decrepit grid,” said Judith Enck, who oversaw Puerto Rico as a regional administrator in the Environmental Protection Agency during President Obama's administration. “My great fear is FEMA will reconstruct the old grid — and when the next hurricane hits, it will all come tumbling down again.”
>Nieves, the former Puerto Rican state senator, said that while he supports Sanders’s legislation, he fears an ideological debate over the energy grid’s future in Congress could lead to inaction. “The right says PREPA has to be privatized, and that’s the solution for everything; the left says it must remain a public corporation and is opposed to privatization,” he said. “In the middle of that debate lies the fate of the Puerto Rican people."
>Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) and Kamala D. Harris (D-Calif.) will co-sponsor Sanders’s bill, and a handful of other Democratic senators are considering doing so as well. It has also been endorsed by 73 liberal and labor organizations, including MoveOn.org, the Sierra Club, and the Service Employees International Union.
>“I was glad to work closely with Senator Sanders on this far-reaching bill so that we can aid our fellow U.S. citizens and help them along a path to full recovery," Warren told The Washington Post.
Well, Trumpists, how does it feel that Bernie Sanders is a more profound and ambitious leader than your God Emperor could ever be?
Should just move all the spicspanics to Vermont
Pretty easy to be ambitious with other people’s money
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*Oh no, the money from the rich and powerful could absolutely be used to help people for a change*
Look, I know you Trumpists like sucking billionaire cock, but please think rationally about things for a change and let's do something that benefits the entire country
If the Marshall Plan worked for Europe, Bernie's plan can work for Puerto Rico!
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Commies need to fuckung die. Kikes, too.
(((Stein)))
Every time.
SAGE this fag.
Porto shito has already squandered billions in federal subsidies. What makes you think they won't accomplish more of the same?
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virtue signaling faggot
also sage