Battleground in Florida as election hinges on Puerto Rican population

The Hill ^ | 11/1/2018 | Kristin Tate

[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.

[Ancesthntr]

“Paradoxically, the third generation Cubans that I know (my sister married into a Cuban family) are leaning Democrat.

You can’t pigeon-hole Hispanics.”

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Seems to me that these Cubans have become thoroughly Americanized...so that, as Churchilll said, they will always do the right thing - right after having tried everything else.

[Ancesthntr]

“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.”

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No, not at all. It simply requires a slight recalibration of Dick Cheney’s hurricane and tornado machine, such that it only hits places like Cuba and Venezuela, and sometimes NJ and NOLA.

Geez, don’t make it too complicated - damn, man, you know how hard it is to get better dependents these days? It ain’t like it used to be!

[Boomer]

:D

[Bommer]

Vietnamese were sold down the river by the Democrats. The seem to have forgotten.

So have anyone that has supported Democraps. They control our schools and feast on the ignorant. If we had a higher level of educated people, these assholes wouldn’t be elected dog catcher.