Opinion | Don’t blame Puerto Rico’s poor economy on hurricanes

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Opinion: Don’t blame Puerto Rico’s poor economy on hurricanes

 

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This oped is a joke; it can be summarized as this: Not having a gilded-age economy is hurting Puerto Rico’s employment numbers and economic output.

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No one has.

Exactly ! DC & mailnalnd business interests ensured that Puerto Rico was plundered; for over a century PR has been exploited as a colony, denied the opportunity to develop in a normal fashion. PR had better case for statehood than Hawaii (except PR was not strategically located.

Puerto Rico should forget about the uncaring U.S. & align with Cuba.

Puerto Rican govt is corrupt to the core. Until that changes nothing else will.

Oops there goes one of Democrats taking points. Lol

Blame the realDonaldTrump Admin. And realDonaldTrump failure to finish the recovery process

Monsters! “high mandated benefits — 12 days of paid sick leave, another 12 days paid vacation, up to a $600 Christmas bonus and eight weeks of paid maternity leave “

Poor leadership is to blame. Nobody is blaming hurricanes.

Puerto Rico is beautiful place and Puerto Ricans are warm friendly people but their politics have turned the island into a shithole.

Blame it on socialism

The United States should not give PR one single dime until they clean house and kick out the corrupt politicians and incompetent administrators. The next time PR is hit by a major storm Trump should send out the boys and girls from Texas to show PR how it's done. AlohaHa59067534

No it is because of systemic corruption

Unless your name is Elizabeth Warren

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This is like a lot of things right now. It didn’t start 2 years ago

Why can’t they take of their own?

I know people who live in PR & they were defending Trump’s criticism of the territory after the multiple hurricanes. PR is corrupt & the leaders & that dumb woman mayor are garbage. They don’t deserve statehood & for us to bail them out.

I blame it on the person who created Tik tok

I blame the corrupt govt

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Puerto Rico was a disaster long before Maria ravaged the island.

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