Tell me about this place. Why did amerimutts let it rot instead of turning it into a paradise?

Tell me about this place. Why did amerimutts let it rot instead of turning it into a paradise?

SHOW YOUR ORIGIN FLAG, YOU FUCKING NIGGER!!!!

The capitalism and greed that are so touted as the savior of the west are to blame for this shit.

Its a giant welfare island being propped up by our tax dollars.

PR is full of spics. There's some nice/paradisal spots but otherwise it's the spics' fault.

Because they don't have any representation in Congress or electoral votes. If they move to the mainland however...

It was the tax-free dollars sheltered here that caused the welfare state.

Because it can't be a paradise as long as Puerto ricans live there

This place likes to post about all the places that suck and aren't white, but no one wants to admit that it was white greed that made it this way. It isn't even a valid conversation to insinuate that it was anything other than white greed that ruined puerto rico.

The only way to turn Puerto Rico into a paradise would be to get rid of all of the Puerto Ricans.

Puerto Rican here living on the mainland. Truth is, there is only so much the mainland can do. The blame falls on the disgustingly corrupt politicians of Puerto Rico. Puerto Rico needs statehood or let loose imo.

Agreed.

It's actually socialism, not capitalism, that ruined Puerto Rico.

Actually, Puerto Rico is a very good example why big government is fucking bad, especially with their state-owned electricity company.

This. Huge corruption is the result of a huge, paternalistic socialist state.

Shitskins

Actually it was the shitskins

an island filled to the brim with boricuas will never be a paradise.

I don't understand why we don't into empire frankly. Every third world country would be a resort.

Actually, there was someone that was actually trying to fix Puerto Rico or at least prevent Puerto Rico from going into the mess that they are in.

His name was Luis Fortuno. Elected governor in 2008 after the incumbent Governor got convicted of campaign finance violations. As soon as he took office, he tried to implement a lot of reforms to prevent Puerto Rico from going into massive debt. And his plan was basically this:

>Reduce the annual government expenditures by more than $2 billion by the start of the next fiscal year

Unfortunately, the plan required laying off up to 30,000 government workers.

And we all know what happens when government workers are threatened with losing their cushy jobs.

They riot. Thousands of Puerto Rican workers went on strike, teachers' unions hated Fortuno's plan to privatize employee pensions.

But you know what, Luis Fortuno's economic policies would help to massively reduce Puerto Rico's structural deficit.

The deficit went from $3 billion upon him taking office to $332.7 million by 2012. If he was re-elected, then the debt might've been eliminated.

Unfortunately, because Puerto Ricans didn't like having to make necessary sacrifices in order for Puerto Rico to be fiscally solvent, they decided to elect Democratic fuckboy Alejandro Garcia Padilla. And his mismanagement of Puerto Rico's finances have led to Puerto Rico being in bad shape as it is.

Of course, I would've loved to see a lot of state-government enterprises like PREPA be privatized and to allow free market competition of electrical companies.

Oh and it happens that Luis Fortuno, pretty much Puerto Rico's best Governor, was a Republican.

Maybe if Puerto Rico started electing more Republicans instead of Democrats into Puerto Rican government, then maybe Puerto Rico would actually be a paradise?

I mean, I don't know for certain but Luis Fortuno's governance was promising.

chick looks dominican and not (((boricua))).

It's a beautiful island -- it just happens to be infested with stupid spic mongrels.

First thing would be to genocide everyone living there, only then can it become a paradise.