In the movie musical “West Side Story” the song “America” is sung by Rita Moreno. Part of the song is a kind of call and response. For example, “I’ll drive a Buick through San Juan.” (“If there’s a road you can drive on.”)
I was struck by the 4th verse: “I’ll bring a T.V. to San Juan.” (“If there’s a current to turn on.”) In the 1957 stage version and the 1962 movie it was kind of cute. Now it is just pathetic. Thousands of people in Puerto Rico are still either without power or only have it available intermittently.
How can we be so bad at basic infrastructure? Make America Great Again? When?
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