"Hey man, they can't let China or anyone else that close.. We can do whatever we want and they won't cut us off. No way!"
That kind of thing.
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Their politicians are so confident that they have both of our political parties stateside cowering in fear of the Puerto Rican 'vote' that they can coerce $10s of billions more of U.S. Taxpayer's dollars out of them for the commercial development of the 35,000 acres that the 2 Naval bases were on.
And all 35,000 acres and existing infrastructure for FREE, of course.
I'm not so sure they're wrong.
The children we have in charge will do anything for votes.
Puerto Rico: Turnover of Roosevelt Roads would be boon for island, investor says
Among other things, the politicians in Puerto Rico think the U.S. Taxpayers should cough-up $550 million more dollars to build them a bridge between Vieques and Ceiba at Roosevelt Roads.
Nice, huh?
LOL!