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President Trump Discusses Puerto Rico Relief and Recovery: “Some Very Serious Decisions Need To Be Made”…
Lets give Puerto Rico to Hollywood and NFL kneelers. Have them show us how they can build a utopia.
Wonder if they miss Roosevelt Roads Naval Air Station? Very little sympathy here. They bit the hand that feeds them. Kind of like a union town striking and closing down the factory. Boo hoo.
Get PR on its feet being productive would be a good goal.
The US feral government’s minimum wage law had a lot to do with it.
https://economics21.org/html/federal-minimum-wage-killing-puerto-ricos-economy-1387.html
Quote of the week !
IOW, turn Puerto Rico from a territory into a colony with military occupation. That won't happen because of the "racist" optics, but it is essentially the only solution--it worked for Japan in the late 1940s, though it took the "stimulus" of the Korean War to put the Japanese economy and infrastructure on track.
Guess what? They are all coming here.
Most PR leftists bilk us taxpayers. End it now. Disgusting welfare filth.
Kind of reminds me of Washington DC. And we know how well that has turned out.
Use Puerto Rico as a petri dish. Educate, implement, and turn the place into a sound example of Conservative principles.
Once we have it down, move it to other places, our inner cities.
Make me Governor or President of PR, and within a decade, I’ll have all the debt paid off and PR will be a booming paradise.
Why is nobody asking WHY are they failing financially?
Gee... could it be too much borrowing and spending???
If only President Trump would come out and declare that the taxpayer WON’T be bailing out bond holders and banks that made those foolish loans to a country that spent irresponsibly and could never pay back all that debt in the first place. That money is gone; the only remaining question is who will eat the losses: the idiots who made the loans, or the taxpayers who will be forced into it by backing more good money loans after bad...
Oi Vey!
Puerto Rico is a lost cause. We need to cut our losses, get the hell out, and set them free. The problem with Puerto Rico is Puerto Ricans; always was and always will be.
Consider the success of Hong Kong, which was a British Crown Colony for over 150 years and now a Chinese possession. The Chinese of Hong Kong made it prosperous, regardless of who putatively “owned” them. The Puerto Ricans have lived under US protection for over a hundred years but haven’t been able to achieve success, regardless of being just offshore of the greatest economic engine the world has ever known.
Puerto Ricans are welfare layabouts with a manana mentality, like so many of their South American brothers. We need to disconnect from Puerto Rico.
PR had a gold mine with Roosevelt Roads Navy Base. Add Ft. Buchanan and Ft. Allen over in Ponce. Also the Marine Corp on the east end of Vieques and the western third of Vieques had the ammo storage bunkers. Lots of US dollars in the PR economy. The US was pressured to turn it all over to PR for “development.” They let a small band of communist independistas, coupled with years of inept Democrats run territorial government, leading to what we see now as a complete breakdown.
The Federal government might consider a complete takeover and rebuilding it in accordance with Trump business principles. Make it bright red - conservative red.
Although the people are Americans, the territory is third world.
There are only 3.5 million people there. They could all be moved to the mainland and just shut the place down.