And so, for the third year in a row, our thoughtful and wise Congress [gag!] has decided that the Leftist politicians that dominate Puerto Rican seats of authority and all their ill-bred policies that steal from bondholders to give to the union cronies in a severely broken pension system, deserve to be saved once again using the Puerto Rico Oversight, Management and Economic Stability Act (PROMESA).
While both Democrats and Republicans assure us that this is not a bailout bill, they are lying through their teeth. The Democrats cannot help Puerto Rico anymore because of the runaway spending of a remote location that has little or no oversight in so far as fiscal responsibility is concerned and the Republicans are still reacting to the consultants from 2012 who said that we couldn’t win the presidency without the Hispanic vote. Because they still buy into this disproven theory, they decided that a Puerto Rican bailout was the right thing to do.
With many issues that are incredible to see repeated year after year, we have a chance to see our Grand Old Party’s wisdom in full operation as the Puerto Rican officials beg for $94M this year from the feds, only to turn around and hand out a very generous “Christmas bonus” to government employees in excess of $100M!
Turn to the next page to read more about this miscarriage of justice and the implications on the American taxpayer!
Total misuse of our taxpayers money!!!!!! Puerto Ricans should be outraged and demand accountability of corruption!
We need to cut Puerto Rico loose.
Not one damn cent!!! PR should take back the bonus payouts to their government people and use that money. Not any of my taxes should go there
Oh yea, will cut check. Are you do for another bonus. Where did you get the funds for that last bonus? Maybe relief funds?
NEVER.
If uerto Rico was broke and in debt, where did the bonus money come from?
Walter Wolenski They are only statutory Americans. We don’t have 51 stars on our flag and they can’t vote in Puerto Rico and evidently don’t want to be citizens unless they want something from us. ‘As a Puerto Rican, I find this story disturbing. It deprives us of our self-determination, and it assumes that the master knows what is best for the slave. The question is not why Puerto Ricans are not treated as U.S. citizens. The question should be whether Puerto Ricans want to be U.S. citizens. Puerto Ricans continue to be subjects of the United States without a right to vote for the president, without voting representation in Congress and without equal treatment compared with citizens born or naturalized in the United States. The Supreme Court has yet to decide whether the statutory citizenship that Puerto Ricans possess is equivalent to U.S. citizenship.’
Typical dem in power – they know how to spend/waste money!
fck you
i hope NOT!