Almost exactly one month ago, Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico, knocking out nearly all of their power and putting the country in jeopardy from the natural disaster. Only a few weeks before, Houston had been flooded by the rains of Hurricane Harvey, and volunteers had flocked to the city to help the people who were struggling. After Hurricane Maria, President Trump sent the barest minimum of help to the country of Puerto Rico, giving them enough help to get 20% of the island safe water to drink. Then he stopped. In an interview with the president of Puerto Rico, he was asked what rating he would give the work that the White House had done, rated on a scale of one to ten. Trump said that he would give the efforts of the White House a ten, since the storm was so much worse than some of the earlier ones. According to this article from "Thinkprogress", President Trump asked whether they had done a good job of providing relief. The president of Puerto Rico responded with a slightly passive aggressive way that yes, indeed, they had come immediately to the country. Some of the biggest names in the government are now putting on airs and tweeting or putting messages on social media about how the American people are not helping the Puerto Ricans, and how we are still complaining about football players. I feel like there's not much more that I can add to this, because President Rossello summed it up so well. I am aware of the fact that I wrote on the "Take a Knee" for the last assignment, but I also think that it is important to keep things in perspective. If this were Houston that were out of water and power, would we be sitting here? If it were Florida, do you think that there would still be people complaining about how terrible the question of abortion is? Unfortunately, the answer would still be yes, but that's a different topic. We need to learn to deal with the urgent problem, instead of trying to solve problems from yesterday, tomorrow, and three years from now. Although it is still important to consider the question of the "Take a Knee", I think that it is more important to take care of people who need it, and I think that this is what is tearing the country apart.
President Trump has just made a claim that the American justice system is "A Laughingstock" and "A Joke", because the trials for a terrorist Sayfullo Saipov (The man responsible for the attacks in New York) were too long and didn't give harsh enough punishments. He claimed that there was something wrong with our federal justice system because criminals who are obviously guilty are allowed to stay alive. What is going on here? My opinion (although I know that some of you will probably disagree) is that the biggest mistake that our government made is letting President Trump into office. Ever since he was elected- and even during the election season- he has been working only to further his own self-interests. He was working with the Russian government during the election, he has a number of women going to court against him for sexual harassment, and he has removed that vast majority of former President Obama's appointed staff and replaced them with
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