Well then make it the 58th state.
I know, bring them all here and pull the drain plug out of the center of the island.
Let me call Jebbie...............
Once a growing manufacturing center, Puerto Rico began a long decline in the mid-2000s after federal tax incentives for businesses that produced goods on the island were phased out, prompting some employers and tens of thousands of workers to leave.
Been to Puerto Rico a few times. It’s a beautiful place, but San Juan has some incredibly scary areas.
It's not for that purpose ... so you right wing nuts can stop thinking what you're thinking!
Puerto Rico is our Greece (though Detroit made a run at it).
Can we be as tough as Germany?
And when was the last time Conservatives controlled the government of Puerto Rico???
Just turn Puerto Rico back into a Bird Sanctuary
Windmills. They just need more windmills.
“Bad luck”. Riiiiight.
I love the Robert Heinlein quote about “bad luck”:
“Throughout history, poverty is the normal condition of man. Advances which permit this norm to be exceeded here and there, now and then are the work of an extremely small minority, frequently despised, often condemned, and almost always opposed by all right-thinking people. Whenever this tiny minority is kept from creating, or (as sometimes happens) is driven out of a society, the people then slip back into abject poverty. This is known as “bad luck”.
No bailout for Puerto Rico, not one dime!
Give them back to Spain. They didn’t blow up the Maine anyway, so yeah.....our mistake.
Whats a few million more broke Spanish speakers gonna hurt? You will barely notice!
“Lawmakers in Washington and San Juan need to come up with a plan...”
Need?!?
Hmm, normally when I am begging someone for help, I don’t start off by saying “You need to come up with a plan!”
Let’s try a novel solution. Tell all the Mexicans they can have permanent residency status, but only in Puerto Rico. Let ‘em fight it out :)
Labor in PR is not as cheap as Mexico, so when the tax incentives ran out the companies that had relocated there moved on. I worked for such a company and made several trips to the island in the 80’s. Beautiful place but dirt poor outside of the touristy areas.