Posted on 09/29/2017 6:32:17 PM PDT by HarleyLady27
President Donald Trump discusses the short-term (relief) and long-term (recovery) efforts for Puerto Rico. As everyone is aware, even before the storm the island territory was under financial collapse as a result of Democrat mismanagement and generational political agendas’ creating a culture of dependency.
Hurricane Maria has exacerbated Puerto Rico’s problems and is showcasing a governmental structure incapable of governing during crisis. The media hypes the suffering, yet omits the Island’s inept systems of governance and the culture of dependency. The only way the U.S. federal government can assist effectively is by taking over almost every aspect of state and local government.
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Guess what? They are all coming here.
Most PR leftists bilk us taxpayers. End it now. Disgusting welfare filth.
Kind of reminds me of Washington DC. And we know how well that has turned out.
The Media, as usual, was bashing President Trump and the Jones Act. Here's a good article about the situation from gCaptain:
American Maritime Industry Fights Back Against False Claims on Jones Act and Relief Efforts in Puerto Rico
Use Puerto Rico as a petri dish. Educate, implement, and turn the place into a sound example of Conservative principles.
Once we have it down, move it to other places, our inner cities.
Make me Governor or President of PR, and within a decade, I’ll have all the debt paid off and PR will be a booming paradise.
The word you want is “martial” law.
I like this idea. A total rebuild is usually cheaper than a renovation, when it comes to housing. You can leapfrog some of the former steps of development. Set up universal wifi and find ways to sell moble phones to everyone, and you will have eliminated ground wire for telephonics and internet. Set up solar panels, wind farms and hydroponics.
Why is nobody asking WHY are they failing financially?
Gee... could it be too much borrowing and spending???
If only President Trump would come out and declare that the taxpayer WON’T be bailing out bond holders and banks that made those foolish loans to a country that spent irresponsibly and could never pay back all that debt in the first place. That money is gone; the only remaining question is who will eat the losses: the idiots who made the loans, or the taxpayers who will be forced into it by backing more good money loans after bad...
Oi Vey!
Puerto Rico is just the tip of the iceberg. California is also in bad financial shape. What happens when a major earthquake hits S.F. or L.A? Then there’s the possibility of a tsunami. And Governor Moonbeam wants to build a high speed train.
Better people in PR......
Puerto Rico could have gotten all of those tourists that go to Punta Cana and Puerto Plata, in the Dominican Republic, if they had played their cards right.
Puerto Rico is a lost cause. We need to cut our losses, get the hell out, and set them free. The problem with Puerto Rico is Puerto Ricans; always was and always will be.
Consider the success of Hong Kong, which was a British Crown Colony for over 150 years and now a Chinese possession. The Chinese of Hong Kong made it prosperous, regardless of who putatively “owned” them. The Puerto Ricans have lived under US protection for over a hundred years but haven’t been able to achieve success, regardless of being just offshore of the greatest economic engine the world has ever known.
Puerto Ricans are welfare layabouts with a manana mentality, like so many of their South American brothers. We need to disconnect from Puerto Rico.
I don’t want a base of Chinese influence in the Caribbean, if we abandon PR, somebody is going to fill that void.
“I don’t want a base of Chinese influence in the Caribbean, if we abandon PR, somebody is going to fill that void.”
I understand your point, but the Chinese already own the Panama Canal. Mexico and Cuba have been direct threats for many years, too. I think the trillions of dollars that we squander trying to buy off putative “allies” around the world is totally wasted and would be better spent arming ourselves with weapons (and building a wall).
We already have the means to deliver total destruction to our enemies anywhere we find them on the face of the earth. We just don’t have the will to deliver it.
After the protesters succeeded in shutting down Vieques they cried about the the economy tanking.
Don’t worry, we’ll send the three or four trillion- while our poor seniors continue with their starvation pensions.
+1. Best idea yet.
I hear you there!!!
PR had a gold mine with Roosevelt Roads Navy Base. Add Ft. Buchanan and Ft. Allen over in Ponce. Also the Marine Corp on the east end of Vieques and the western third of Vieques had the ammo storage bunkers. Lots of US dollars in the PR economy. The US was pressured to turn it all over to PR for “development.” They let a small band of communist independistas, coupled with years of inept Democrats run territorial government, leading to what we see now as a complete breakdown.
The Federal government might consider a complete takeover and rebuilding it in accordance with Trump business principles. Make it bright red - conservative red.
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