Puerto Ricans struggle to buy food, medicine amid funding shortfall

NY Post ^ | March 29, 2019 | Associated Press

[Popman]

The additional food stamp funds allowed Puerto Rico’s government to help an additional 279,000 people previously not covered by a program that serves 1.3 million people on the island of 3.2 million, as well as increase the benefits of those already enrolled.

Read that again slowly...

50% of the island population is on food stamps...

Time for tough love...

[Popman]

The additional food stamp funds allowed Puerto Rico’s government to help an additional 279,000 people previously not covered by a program that serves 1.3 million people on the island of 3.2 million, as well as increase the benefits of those already enrolled.

Read that again slowly...

50% of the island population is on food stamps...

Time for tough love...

[ontap]

Decades of liberal politicians stealing funds and allowing the super structure of the country to deteriorate leads to the inability to respond to a disaster!!! Coming to the USA if liberals succeed!!!

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Wife and I spent Christmas week in PR a few years ago (before the storm.)
Beaches are beautiful, mountains are picturesque and the people are friendly. There is a serious drug problem no one will admit to. We saw syringes along the roadside near our rental house. A guy drove up two or three houses down and nodded off for most of the day, even though local cops drove by a couple times. Only the young folks who've been in the military speak English.

[litehaus]

Need relentless repetition repeatedly !!!

“What about their stinking corrupt inefficient government taking care of things for a change? Why must we fund them?

PR is nothing but a big fat money pit for U.S. taxpayer money. If the Hispanic U.S. lawmakers want to personally help them out of their own bank accounts, fine.”

[metmom]

The US owes PR nothing.

If they want to solve their problems, they need to address government corruption at home and quit blame shifting.

[aces]

That is what the attempted ongoing coup is about, disguised as political, they do not want the American people to see the sacking of out tax dollars, Comey the rotted tree, Hillary the flama, Bill the rapist, Obozzo the gay,podesta the child fantasy one, etc etc..

they have been robbing the middle class since taxes first started

[onedoug]

The perpetual hurricane.

[butlerweave]

Can’t grow food ?

[redlegplanner]

Lets refund the federal income tax they pay....

oh yeah - $0.00

[momincombatboots]

Worse than that.. they are colluding with pharmaceutical companies to hild American medicine hostage. A shortage of synthroid was the latest.. it’s one of the simpler compounds and yet they just couldn’t do it.
This is corporate cronyism and a huge tax scam on us all.

[Bommer]

I know, keep voting for socialist! Hell it worked for Detroit