[pawpawrick]

They pay no taxes,have their own currency and language and whine about why everything isn't done for them.

[Reily]

“e.g...They have their own currency?....”

Puerto Rico doesn’t use dollars?

You have a link to that?

[MeneMeneTekelUpharsin]

Major corruption investigations ongoing in Puerto Rico as I write this. This was all happening BEFORE the hurricane. They Puerto Ricans are killing the Puerto Ricans.

[GrandJediMasterYoda]

And this Mayor who praised the FALN terrorist, SHE has the gall to bash Trump? Uh, excuse me, but you were praising a terrorist who blew up buildings in the USA for PR independence and now OH! Now, independence is not what you want. No, now the evil USA must help and it’s all the fault of the US President that you didn’t prepare.

[ClearCase_guy]

Could become Haiti.

[Spok]

Sounds like they’re ready to be annexed by California.

[Jmouse007]

Water is wet and the sky is blue. Somebody please cue "Captain Obvious".

The Trump administration had better learn the lesson of the utterly corrupt Clinton Crime Family, UN Hati relief effort and ONLY have their own people dispensing every dime and overseeing ALL ASPECTS of the relief effort and the reconstruction.

Otherwise, ALL of those funds will be STOLEN. NOTHING will get rebuilt or accomplished and NOTHING will end up going to the people who really need it.

[SaveFerris]

[The governor Ricardo Rossello has little experience. He’s 36 and never really held a job and never dealt with a budget. His entire administration is totally inexperienced and they have no clue how to handle a crisis of this magnitude.]

All he needs now is a doctored-up Hawaiian “birth certificate” and he can be the next Obama!!!

[Rebelbase]

“In 1916, the US government occupied the Dominican Republic, mostly because a chaotic and unstable political situation there was preventing the Dominican Republic from paying back debts owed to the USA and other foreign countries. “

https://www.thoughtco.com/us-occupation-of-the-dominican-republic-2136380

Martial law now!

[FrankR]

Sounds like they’re planning the same kind of extortion as “Rocket Man”.

[bgill]

I know a guy who goes down there regularly to audit a company’s books. He says it is a joke. He says they’re corrupt from the top to the bottom. He was supposed to go down Monday but his trip has been postponed, obviously. It’s a paycheck loan company so you know it’s really going to be a mess when he does get down there.

[lodi90]

Puerto Ricans and their like will turn Florida blue before long, IMO. I’ve seen this movie before growing up in California. It has a bad ending.

[Chgogal]

Mayor Nagin-Cruz of San Juan has Nagin down. What a piss poor viper of a mayor. Where the hell are those Puerto Rican truck drivers.

[wardamneagle]

Cuban puppet

[Rome2000]

The communists in US and Puerto Rico killed PR economy and drove out the Navy.

The "Mayor"of San Juan is a STUPID COMMUNIST BITCH

KLINTOON TO BLAME FOR DESTROYING PR ECONOMY.

More than half a century ago, U.S. lawmakers sought to help Puerto Rico emerge from a colonial past, transforming its largely agrarian economy into a manufacturing powerhouse.

The effort, known as Operation Bootstrap, began with a series of tax breaks designed to attract manufacturers who would provide steady factory jobs.

For a time the plan seemed to work, as standards of living in Puerto Rico rose. Between 1950 and 1980, per capita gross national product grew nearly tenfold in Puerto Rico, and disposable income and educational attainment rose sharply, according to the Center for a New Economy, a think tank based in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

One of those tax breaks, enacted in 1976, allowed U.S. manufacturing companies to avoid corporate income taxes on profits made in U.S. territories, including Puerto Rico. Manufacturers, led by the pharmaceutical industry, flocked to the island.

But by the early 1990s, the provision faced growing opposition from critics who attacked the tax break as a form of corporate welfare. Much like the current debate over corporations parking profits offshore to avoid taxes, tax reformers saw the provision, known as Section 936, as too costly for the Treasury.

The tax break also had some unintended consequences, notably the unfair tax burden that fell to domestic Puerto Rican companies.

In 1996, President Bill Clinton signed the law that would phase out Section 936 over 10 years.

Plant closures and job losses followed. Ten years later, on the eve of the Great Recession, employment in Puerto Rico peaked. Left with a dwindling tax base, the Puerto Rican government borrowed heavily to replace the lost revenue. Puerto Ricos econonmy was devastated by BILL KLINTOON repeal of Section 936.

In the 1980's and 90's the economy was booming.

KLINTOON and his fellow communists just couldn't stand the fact that corporations could set up shop there and pay low taxes.

The communists in PR and the US conspired to kick out the US Navy, which was a HUGE mistake.

PR's current economy is a DIRECT RESULT OF AMERICAN COMMUNISTS in the CPUSA and DEMOCRAT PARTY

[litehaus]

“His entire administration is totally inexperienced and they have no clue how to handle a crisis of this magnitude.”

Yeh, sure...After “the Big One” in Kalifornicate, the dems,who have been in charge forever, will have all back to normal in a month, RIGHT?