Posted on 09/13/2018 5:04:36 AM PDT by McGruff
Like many Puerto Ricans who fled to the mainland after Hurricane Maria, Jose Santiago has been scrambling to find a place to live. The federal vouchers that pay for his hotel room near the Orlando airport expire at checkout time Friday.
He has visited apartment complexes, but his name gets put on waiting lists. He has applied for assistance for apartment housing from the Federal Emergency Management Agency, but it won’t give him any money unless he has a lease. And he can’t sign a lease without money for a deposit and first and last months’ rent.
Santiago, 40, can afford to pay only $500 to $800 a month with his job driving cars for an auction house. At this point, he’s ready to just rent a room to put a roof over his head.
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7,000,000 jobs are open....
Reminds me of a little sign we used to have taped to the refrigerator to try and teach the kids not to procrastinate (years ago), it went like this:
“Failure to plan on your part, does not constitute an emergency on my part.”
My son is now 50, and he can still quote that sign to this day. We have a good laugh about it...but it helped back then.
Go back to PR.
Interesting. An opportunity to cut the island loose. Independence. I say turn the place into a penal colony and let it be run by convicted deep staters. Think Lois Lerner , the CEO’s who should be wearing jumpsuits. Give every Puerto Rican a job making $20k to construct hurricane resistance prisons-they already are like that. Flush our toilet. Plenty of white color convicts smart enough to manage the place. Just don’t allow them to leave the island.
If he can afford a tent, Seattle seems to have room.
GO HOME Jose!!!!
If PR doesn’t want to go back to being part of Spain, they need to convert to using English. Today.
one can thank Teddy Roosevelt for this. Almost everything derived from the Spanish American War was divested around 1905, except PR. He insisted we keep it. So here we are.
Uh, the hurricane is over... Go home?
Jose could go back to PR and build a nice house out of the unused supplies we sent them.
The assistance was transitional.
If he failed to transition to permanent housing, he is going to have to do so suddenly. This is a choice on his part.
Not how I would have done it, but I can’t live his life for him.
He’s been here a year and living on yours and my dime for the whole time and we’re supposed to feel sorry for him because he can’t continue to bleed the taxpayers any longer? Let me thing about it. Hmm - nope f... him. Let the parasite go back to PR and vote democrat there and continue his stupid existence in PR.
If he can afford $800 a month, he could have been socking away those $800 for the last 12 months, and he would have almost $10,000 in the bank.
It is a heck of a lot easier to find decent housing when you have $10,000 in the bank. Using $10,000 as a down payment, he could set himself up in a modest house and start accumulating wealth.
Like 610 Columbia St in Orlando, selling for $64,900. Check it out on Zillow. It’s not a palace, but it beats the heck out of a hotel room!
I guess we’re supposed to wipe them, too?
Can't until their destroyed homes are rebuilt......
Hurricane Maria was a YEAR ago! This deadbeat POS has been staying at Club USA all that time and now, at the last minute, he’s panicked because the gravy train’s about at the end of the line???
Throw his worthless, welfare-mooching butt on the first slow dinghy back to Puerto Reek-o.
PR is already a corrupt banana republic... While the human cost of the disaster is disheartening, it is also the end game of a local government that was corrupt and mismanaged for decades.
Why is going back home to Puerto Rico off the table?
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