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Posted on 11/01/2018 12:44:31 PM PDT by therightliveswithus
Florida is ground zero in next week’s midterm elections, with critical Senate and governor’s races on razor-thin margins. The result, and that of Florida’s electoral future, could ultimately be decided by the state’s exploding Puerto Rican population, a group that tends to vote overwhelmingly in favor of Democrats.
Years of economic mismanagement created a seemingly unsolvable crisis in Puerto Rico. Today, the U.S. territory faces more than $74 billion in bond debt and an additional $49 billion in unfunded pension liabilities. Simultaneously, 10 percent of the population is unemployed while nearly 40 percent rely on food stamps. The workforce participation rate is a pitiful 40 percent due to overregulation and welfare that often pays better than jobs.
San Juan’s solution? Spend more! Rather than decrease spending to match tax collection levels, bureaucrats simply issue bonds to pay the island’s teachers, cops and firefighters. The problem is compounded with each new bond. Massive waves of Puerto Rican residents fled their home each year since the island’s economic crisis began in 2006, escaping the grim fiscal disaster and disproportionately high crime rates.Florida is ground zero in next week’s midterm elections, with critical Senate and governor’s races on razor-thin margins. The result, and that of Florida’s electoral future, could ultimately be decided by the state’s exploding Puerto Rican population, a group that tends to vote overwhelmingly in favor of Democrats.
Years of economic mismanagement created a seemingly unsolvable crisis in Puerto Rico. Today, the U.S. territory faces more than $74 billion in bond debt and an additional $49 billion in unfunded pension liabilities. Simultaneously, 10 percent of the population is unemployed while nearly 40 percent rely on food stamps. The workforce participation rate is a pitiful 40 percent due to overregulation and welfare that often pays better than jobs.
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Oy
So, we leave a place with horrible debt and mismanagement, and we’ll vote to put the same type of people in place in Florida? Sounds like a sane plan to me!
Way more than half of all the Puerto Ricans that have moved to Florida in recent years and that I personally know, family and friends, have registered and will be voting Republican.
Most are military buddies who have moved to central Florida after retiring.
Paradoxically, the third generation Cubans that I know (my sister married into a Cuban family) are leaning Democrat.
You can’t pigeon-hole Hispanics.
Vietnamese were sold down the river by the Democrats. The seem to have forgotten.
I thought the media said that Trump killed all the Puerto Ricans with a hurricane. One would presume that extended to Puerto Rican immigrants as well, since Trump “hates brown people” everywhere and has limitless evil powers. /s
Florida is an important swing state. I thought it was important in putting Trump over the top. I wondered about all those Puerto Ricans leaving the island for Florida. Could Trump even win Florida again? Maybe a concerted effort to get those “citizens” back to their island would be a good investment. That or encourage them to head to blue states.
No. No it doesn’t. We found over 6 months ago the large majority of PRs went home.
This is another “Hispanics gonna save Cankles”
I saw this one coming a mile away. DJT should offer political asylum to the white South Africans and sprinkle the 4 million into FL, PA, MI.
Enough Puerto Ricans moved to FL after the hurricane to swing every statewide election to Dems.
We had hundreds of thousands move here.
To the white South Africans, the Rhodesians, and all the 60,000 English who were forced to surrender their handguns in 1997.
60k conservative Brits? I find it hard to believe there at that many. Hell, Id be surprised if there were 60k conservative in all of the EU.
This is such Fake News. No, it doesn’t HINGE on Puerto Ricans.
LS you can correct me if I am wrong, but R turnout is the key. Rs have surged in registration and so they need to show up.
Typical media playing the race card.
Exactly. Trump got 55% of the Hispanic vote in Florida. I’m guessing 50/50 split this time.
I sure hope those Puerto Ricans are not the tipping point to whether or not Florida has a State Tax. I may never feel the same about them - not that they care - but I do.
Before you vote Dem think about the disaster back in Puerto Rico
So Florida’s dumbing down is all the fault of the weather? A hurricane that ripped through Puerto Rico?
Well that sucks. We need a better class of dependents.
Compare and contrast:
1) “...exploding Puerto Rican population, a group that tends to vote overwhelmingly in favor of Democrats.”
with
2) “Years of economic mismanagement created a seemingly unsolvable crisis in Puerto Rico.”
It is beyond my ability to understand how f’ing STOOOOOPID you have to be to leave a place that is being totally bankrupted by the policies of Party X, and then move somewhere better where you turn around and vote for Party X and those very same policies. WTF? Come on, folks, “How stupid can you be” is a question arising from frustration, NOT a challenge to be moved to the top of your “to do” list.
You know, it really is a damned shame that stupidity is not invariably and quickly fatal. You’d think that evolutionary forces would have taken care of that by now, instead of the painfully slow-motion action of removing only one or two utter morons from the gene pool, one laughable accident at a time.
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