A couple of nigths ago, a local news network presented the case of a woman that was living in infrahuman conditions in a community in Puerto Rico. Government Agencies denied the woman food stamps benefits because she lacked a proper I.D. and her last son recently had turned 18. The woman had no furniture, no stove, no refrigerator, no electricity, no water and the house had holes in the walls the size of basketballs. But that is not my main complain, this only proves that in Puerto Rico there is still a lot to do for our elders, that riches are unevenly distributed and that government agencies are doing a shitty job as they always do. My complain is that once the footage was over, the anchor man made a very improper comment: "There's a case for Fortu~os administration, for him to deal with it". In spanish, "Hay tiene un casito la administracion de Fortu~o, pa' que bregue"For those of you who don't know, Luis Fortu~o is the new governor of Puerto Rico and he's only been a couple of weeks in the spot. However, I don't mean to defend him, but to highlight the ignorance of the anchorman by doing such a comment. First of all, the governor does not assign food stamps and he does not visit families in order to evaluate wheter they need them or not, social workers do. Second, the governor does not choose the people that work for those agencies and deal with the cases neither he designs the charts that decide the percentage of the benefits that youshould be awarded or the proper protocol to follow, chiefs of agencies do, and third he should know better than to politicize situations and spark the flames of the "political parties hot potato blame game" Because in the end, all he acquires is to prove that to be an anchorman for that newscast, apparently you don't need a lot of brain cells. Let's see if finally "le canta el gallo"and his analitical capabilities wake up to being objective and not make a political circus out of the misery of others.
One again it's proven: "Puerto Rico lo hace mejor"
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