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Home Front: Politix
Bill de Blasio: Feds Aren't Bailing Out '˜People of Color' in Puerto Rico
2016-05-09
[Breitbart] New York City mayor Bill de Blasio says the federal government is not helping Puerto Rico with its debt delinquency because the U.S. territory is populated by "people of color."

The New York Post reports that de Blasio made this accusation while speaking at Al Sharpton’s activism org, the National Action Network.

"The backs of the United States government turned on them, while a health-care crisis grows, a humanitarian crisis grows, the Zika crisis grows," he said in a speech at the National Action Network in Harlem.

"By the way, brothers and sisters, do you think by any chance it could be because they’re people of color?"

Puerto Rico defaulted on a nine-figure debt payment this past Monday. According to Bloomberg, hedge funds hold $15 billion of the Caribbean island’s debts. De Blasio is putting pressure on Republican House Speaker Paul Ryan to let the territory declare bankruptcy. As reported by Crain’s New York:
Posted by:Besoeker

#9  According to Bloomberg, hedge funds hold $15 billion of the Caribbean island’s debts.

Hmmmm. Whassamatter, Bill? You wouldn't have put some of your own money into some of them hedge funds would you?
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305   2016-05-09 12:56  

#8  Arithmetic be white.
I'm pretty sure it's Arabic.

Affirmative action was sold as a way to right past wrongs.
Ummm...I believe it was a strategic economic policy proposed by Johnson's Council of Economic Advisors to boost the income of the tax paying classes faster than generational population growth.
Posted by: Skidmark   2016-05-09 12:30  

#7  First rule of Advertising & PR: When you don't like what they're saying about you, change the subject. This is Billy Dee's clumsy attempt to throw off the hounds from his own scandals.
Posted by: regular joe   2016-05-09 12:19  

#6  In what manner is this any of his business? Fuck off, Bill - you have other things to worry about.
Posted by: Raj   2016-05-09 11:38  

#5  This is a good example of how bad ideas get implanted, then grow like cancer.

Affirmative action was sold as a way to right past wrongs. Once that idea took hold, we moved on to white privilege. Now whites can be asked to endure anything, and everyone else gets a free pass on everything. Not even slavery was so insidious.
Posted by: Iblis   2016-05-09 11:17  

#4  As Spc. Abraham 'Doc' Johnson said in Hamburger Hill, "I Am Not Your Brother..."
Posted by: M. Murcek   2016-05-09 11:10  

#3  Fuck off you pandering shit. NYC will be where Puerto Rico is financially soon enough.

And it will be partly the fault of your honky ass.
Posted by: DarthVader   2016-05-09 10:48  

#2  Arithmetic be white.
Posted by: SteveS   2016-05-09 10:28  

#1  
"By the way, brothers and sisters, do you think by any chance it could be because they’re people of color?"

Nope. You've got the cart before the horse. IIRC when bailout talks were running for NTC back in the Seventies, the NY Post ran a front page with the (Ford) administration's position - Drop Dead. Is Mr de Blasio implying only some white people grasp fiscal responsibility?
Posted by: Procopius2k   2016-05-09 06:10  

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