Not Yet a State, Puerto Rico Practices Good Governance

Governing ^ | 1/03/2011 | Paul W. Taylor

[cll]

Bears highlighting:

"There’s a sense that Puerto Rico is preparing to emerge as an equal to states, not an appendage, dependent on the republic".

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

[Vaquero]

NEVER!

not giving the Dhimmicrats 2 more Senators and not till English is the official language.

better to let them form their own country...

[muir_redwoods]

Please correct me if I have this wrong but I believe PR has the greatest percentage of its population on Social Security Disability of any state or territory in the US.

[Daveinyork]

I think they have a conservative republican governor.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

I wish PR all the best in their privatization and consolidation efforts. Maybe we could take a lesson...

[from occupied ga]

Please correct me if I have this wrong but I believe PR has the greatest percentage of its population on Social Security Disability of any state or territory in the US.

I think you're right, but Hawaii and Alaska are in the running too. The last thing we need is another liberal welfare police state joining the ranks. I'd like to give Hawaii to the Japanese and New York to Canada.

[RoadTest]

I love it! The tail is wagging the dog!

[SamAdams76]

I support Puerto Rico’s statehood and I also believe that we need to consider adding additional states to the union. The Constitution does not limit us to 50 states. I would like to see us get to 100.

[Baynative]

I have a family member who is diabled in her 60's. Due to chronic illness she can barely get through an entire day as administrative assistant. She has been forced to reduce her hours to 16 per week and has applied for SSDI. She has been denied twice and the claim has been 18 months in process and appeal with multiple doctors confirming her disabled status. She has now gone to a lawyer who told her it is rare to see someone approved in America on the first application. Thus, all the lawyers now advertising to take the case and push it through the system.

Meanwhile, in Puerto Rico there are social security offices all over the place and over 60% of the applicants are approved immediately. I don't know if Puerto Rican business and workers (if there are any) contribute to the system at the same rate we do.

The purpose of making PR a state is to create a strong democrat majority of state dependent citizens and add two senators and maybe three reps to increase democrat numbers in congress.

[DManA]

through a long-term lease with a private company that will finance, design, build and operate the facility. This is a major conflict of interest. They loan the money, taxpayers pay it back. It is in their interest to make the risk free loan as large as possible. They control the design to put the tax payers on the hook for as much as possible.

This is the best example of good governance they could come up with.

[DManA]

If tax pays pay the bill, if bureaucrats set the parameters, it’s still a government operation.

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“I don’t know if Puerto Rican business and workers (if there are any) contribute to the system at the same rate we do”.

Yes, we employers and workers pay Social Security taxes at the same rate as in the states. Only difference is that SSI is not extended to island residents.

[DManA]

Privitization is a bribe to bring capitalits into the statist tent.

[cll]

I don’t have those numbers.

[cll]

Yes, we have a conservative Republican governor, a nominally Republican legislature, and Republican mayors in most mayor cities (San Juan, Bayamon, and Guaynabo).

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Our Governor, leaders of both houses of the legislature and the majority of mayors of the largest cities are Republicans.

English is already an official language of Puerto Rico, which can’t be said about most states.

[texas booster]

My concern is not that there is presently a republican governor, but that the Democrats steal future elections.

[Psalm 144]

“better to let them form their own country...”

Better for them, too. We are headed towards dissolution anyway.

[Psalm 144]

I have a PR email friend. According to her the popular mindset is -very- oriented towards social welfare. Aggravating this is the fact that jobs are hard to come by. She and her husband are planning to come stateside simply for the better job opportunities. That is a disturbing picture.