[Teacher317]

$72 billion? They have GDP of $103 billion. That's barely 70 percent. The US is flirting with 125 percent, which the IMF calls "unsustainable". (It was around 70 percent when the Dems took over Congress, just before Obama took office.) Japan is closer to 150 percent.

I'm almost surely racist for saying so, but it seems to me that PR would be taking the lazy way out by attempting bankruptcy.

[cll]

Here’s some more insight from research study commissioned by the Puerto Rico government (Almost anyone here on the island could have said the same thing for free):

http://recend.apextech.netdna-cdn.com/docs/editor/Informe%20Krueger.pdf