Schaeuble offered [U.S.] Greece for Puerto Rico

Business Insider ^ | 7/09/2015 | Myles Udland

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Greece is scrambling to get a new bailout package with its European creditors.

These negotiations are playing out both behind closed doors and in public.

And on Thursday at an event in Frankfurt, German finance minister Wolfgang Schaeuble didn't exactly strike a particularly sincere tone when talking about Greece and the other major debt crisis going on right now, Puerto Rico.

According to Bloomberg, Schaeuble said, "I offered my friend [US Treasury Secretary] Jack Lew these days that we could take Puerto Rico into the euro zone if the U.S. were willing to take Greece into the dollar union. He thought that was a joke."

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No hablo Sprechen...

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There’s a “dollar union”?

[Myrddin]

Not a really good trade. Greece is a socialist mess. We really don't need more socialists on the voter rolls. They are being overrun with Islamists from North Africa. Puerto Rico has a good water boundary and isn't very attractive to more invaders looking for freebies. Greece is a NATO nation and not one we're anxious to cede to the Russians or Chinese. That us the one strategic consideration. The island of Lesbos is a Greek island. Perhaps we could export the 3% of our population that leans that direction. Rambling thoughts.

[VanShuyten]

A few countries in Latin America use the US dollar as a national currency. It might not be all that bad of an idea. Puerto Rico’s problem is that it actually is part of the US.

[sarasmom]

I don't understand your comment at all.

Perhaps you could re-state it, in english, for me.

As a natural born citizen of the USA, a military veteran, and someone who has a basic understanding of the legal status of the populations of USA Territories...I care about Puerto Rico.
I'm also a Florida resident.

The vast majority of people moving here from Puerto Rico, and the escaping refugees from Cuba are my natural conservative allies.

Frankly I am more worried about the migrating socialists from NY, NJ and California moving here to escape the socialist hellholes they created in their own states.

I'm only mildly curious about the outcomes to Greece and the EU, who base their entire illogical socialist existence on competing against the USA.

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Gee, thanks, ol’ buddy...

[Clemenza]

So a third world people from an island where the majority of the population receives some form of public assistance and who vote majority Democrat even in Florida are your “natural conservative allies?” OK...

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In case you missed it last night:

Puerto Rico Ping! Please Freepmail me if you want on or off the list.

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This is a PS of the Moscoso Bridge in San Juan, where the usually display the U.S. and P.R. flags.

[sarasmom]

Are we talking about the same Island?

I thought we were talking about Puerto Rico.
Not exactly what I would consider “third world”, since they are also legal USA citizens.

But since I have lived around the world a bit,including many CONUS states, perhaps I have a different world viewpoint.

I originally escaped from Michigan upon almost reaching adulthood.
Where the majority of the corrupt native population were scamming some form of government assistance, and voted majority Democrat...back in nineteen seventy something!

I’ve heard some rumblings that in the past decade or so, the majority of Michiganders learned that their previous corruption tricks don’t work well in the real world, in the long run.
Some even claim to be conservatives now!

[Clemenza]

Have spent some time on the island. The majority of the population receives the WIC card and those employed are disproportionately employed by a very bloated public sector that is at the root of this problem. It is a third world economy with a third world ethnic population (mixed European/African genetically). Median IQ of the island is 83.