The communits 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.
Posted on 09/30/2017 5:58:27 AM PDT by SMGFan
I suggest the President send Bobby Knight down there to get things done. Yes, he has an arrest out on him down there but I’m sure our President could work through that. LOL With Bobby in charge the whining would stop and he’d make sure people got off their butts and carry their own weight. Any bellyaching Bobby can just stuff them in a garbage can. Geraldo has become the Shepard Smith of TV disaster.
I hit the mute whenever he appears.
The communits 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.
The Puerto Ricans have rich soil and a wonderful climate yet they they have to import 85% of their food. They've been living off welfare for too long. If they don't get stuff handed to them they'll whine.
The place is 100 miles long by 30 miles wide.
There aren’t that many roads.
They will be completely cleared by next Wednesday.
Trump is right. The lying media will take his comments out of context, but it's true. There are literally tons of aid and supplies sitting at PR's docks. The PR National Guard or municipal workers are nowhere to be found. Maybe if they hadn't kicked out the Navy they wouldn't be suffering.
Horribly stupid thing to say.
And probably true.
Beautiful place, but it is a Reservation. If you have lived near a rez, that is not a good thing.
Welfare burns your soul out.
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.
The Mayor of Rich Port City claims that the gov’t needs to do more?
She’s the frickin head of a big piece of the Island gov’t. She needs to get her gov’t working harder/better. Lead the people in their own recovery. Send some of the city peeps out to the ‘burbs. PR is only 34 miles across. How long does it take to bulldoze 17 miles? Build 17 mi of pipeline?
Martial law? If the people can’t help themselves they need to be taught how. Dissolve the island government, appoint a governor and use the military to rebuild with civilian help.
All those talking about granting Puerto Rico independence haven’t thought through the security issues yet.
We also need to re-establish our military bases there.
See Post 48.
The communists in US and Puerto Rico killed PR economy and drove out the Navy.
KLINTOON TO BLAME.
You don't keep up with the news, do you? Yet you still want to trash Trump. Why would you make such an uniformed statement?
"Thank you to Carmen Yulin Cruz, the Mayor of San Juan, for your kind words on FEMA etc." Trump four days ago.
Interesting. there was a on the site report here on FR stating the the next day the downed trees had been cut into rounds and the sounds of multiple chain saws were in in air as the Puerto Ricans were starting the clean up well before any aid could arrive.
If Puerto Rico and the Puerto Ricans cannot achieve a functional economy without such tax breaks, what’s your solution?
Tax breaks forever?
Puerto Rico has zero electoral votes and zero state congressional delegates.
By Monday, this t-shirt will be worn by every celebrity and liberal activist.
Typical never let a crisis go to waste crap.
They obviously got their marching orders from the DNC.
There.
Fixed.
Texas is part of the West (somewhat).
Never had the luxury of waiting for someone to come and “fix it”. We help out. We just show up and do it. Heck, I remember riding with my Dad to a place that to hit by a Tornado and asking “Do we know anyone there?” “No son. And I don’t care. They need help. They are going to get help from us.”
I have to laugh when the news goes nuts over snow in New York City. Yes, it is a pain. We in the upper Midwest just dig out and buy bread and milk.
People in Buffalo just snow blow the roof and go to work.
A perfect democRAT. ALWAYS blame somebody else for your failures.
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