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2015-09-07 Caribbean-Latin America

Puerto Rico movement pitches solution to economic woes: rejoin Spain

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Posted by Pappy 2015-09-07 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 “With autonomy Puerto Rico could have sufficient powers to boost the economy and attract foreign investment.”

"With autonomy, we could totally jigger the economy as we see fit. Sure, we'd crash and burn like Venezuela, but *we* would be rich!

“Right now, we can’t vote for the president of the United States, we have limited representation.”

If memory serves, the last couple times PR voted on statehood, they turned it down.

Posted by SteveS 2015-09-07 00:43|| 2015-09-07 00:43|| Front Page Top

#2 I'm sure Spain will be right there for the clean up after the next level 4 or 5 hurricane.

BTW, you might not vote for Prez, but you also don't pay federal personal income tax.

Posted by Procopius2k 2015-09-07 00:48|| 2015-09-07 00:48|| Front Page Top

#3 You want it, you got it.

Posted by OldSpook 2015-09-07 00:51|| 2015-09-07 00:51|| Front Page Top

#4 I'm sure Spain is ecstatic.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2015-09-07 01:31|| 2015-09-07 01:31|| Front Page Top

#5 remember Vieques? FU

Posted by Frank G 2015-09-07 09:54|| 2015-09-07 09:54|| Front Page Top

#6 Ah, Vieques. Interesting story there.

The range and its support base(Roosevelt Roads) were indeed shut down. However, both were closed in record-setting time; stripped of all usable, movable assets.

The range itself was turned over to the Department of the Interior as a "wildlife preserve," due to the prohibitive time and cost it would take to clear decades of potentially hazardous ordnance. That rather killed well-along plans the then current governor of Puerto Rico and cronies had of developing the area into resorts and upscale housing.

Posted by Pappy 2015-09-07 11:22|| 2015-09-07 11:22|| Front Page Top

#7 I think they'd be the only overseas possession of Spain in the Americas to *not* want independence from Spain. Everyone else, in a wide band from Northern Mexico down to Tierra Del Fuego, couldn't put up with Spain's bull anymore.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2015-09-07 11:52|| 2015-09-07 11:52|| Front Page Top

#8 Don't let the puerta hit you in the culo on the way out.

Posted by Blossom Unains5562 2015-09-07 16:34|| 2015-09-07 16:34|| Front Page Top

#9 PuertoR's status as a commonwealth gives them access to lots of US tax dollars but without the burden of paying US income taxes

it does, however, require they comply with labor and environmental protection (e.g., OSHA, minimum wage and EPA stuff). There things have dragged down the economy

Most of their problems are, however self inflicted: bloated and incompetent gov employees, expensive govt sponsored initiatives, etc

Posted by lord garth 2015-09-07 17:59|| 2015-09-07 17:59|| Front Page Top

#10 “Right now, we can’t vote for the president of the United States, we have limited representation.”

Get in line, Buddy.

Posted by Skidmark 2015-09-07 23:20|| 2015-09-07 23:20|| Front Page Top

#11 Roosevelt Road....

Posted by CrazyFool 2015-09-07 23:36|| 2015-09-07 23:36|| Front Page Top

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