Puerto Rico's estimated haul for Social Security, Student Loans, Education, Medicare and Foodstamps this year alone is going to be somewhere around $16.5 Billion U.S. Taxpayer's dollars.
They're still out to steal the island of Vieques out from under the U.S. Taxpayers even though we may have new wars in Irag and North Korea in addition to our continued involvement in Afghanistan.
Puerto Rico is looking for $500 million more U.S. Taxpayer's dollars in addition to the $850 million they've already received for their new Urban train.
Their Section 956, windfall, tax scam isn't dead by any means, yet. Section 956 would raid jobs and 'Billions and Billions' of U.S. Taxpayer's dollars from the U.S Taxpayers.
Federal government spending programs and tax breaks are the cornerstone of the Puerto Rican economy.
The U.S. Taxpayer owned land that they can con our pandering politicians into giving them for FREE is icing on the cake.
From the San Juan Star for Thursday, December 19, 2002:
Puerto Rico had more alcohol-related deaths in traffic accidents than any state in the United States last year, according to a federal government study released Wednesday.
With 1.38 per 100 million vehicle miles in 2001, the island's rate is more than double the national rate of 0.63, says the report by the National Highway Traffic Safety Commission.
In Puerto Rico, a person is four to five times more likely to be killed in a drunken driving accident than in Utah, which has the lowest rate.
Puerto Rico still has an 18-year-old drinking age, and has refused to change it despite the loss of federal highway funds.
You know what they don't mention? How Puerto Rico measures up to the states in non-accident related drinking and driving arrests. I'll bet enforcement is almost non-existant.
In one day, Christine Todd Whitman promised Puerto Rico twice as much money as we're going to gift Afghanistan to secure their borders.
It's like a variation of that old joke about owning a boat.
Puerto Rico is a big hole in the ocean that our pandering politicians throw enormous amounts of U.S. Taxpayer's dollars into. It never stops.