[Johny Joe Hold]

Puerto Rico was flooded but now an even worse flood is happening. Over 20,000 of these Mexican speaking foreigners have invaded the United States. More planeloads arrive everyday.

President Trump needs to enforce border laws and keep these people out of our country.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/puerto-ri...040211345.html

[Basilissa]

Indeed!

We need a wall between America and Puerto Rico!

[Bjorn Jensen]

We seriously have to do something about these wetback illegals, and that is now

[Johny Joe Hold]

Originally Posted by Bjorn Jensen

We seriously have to do something about these wetback illegals, and that is now

I've never understood who owns Puerto Rico. I always assumed that Mexico owns it because they speak Mexican.

Whoever owns it, that place needs to be warned they cannot keep sending these illegals into our beautiful country without consequences.We need Border Patrol asking for papers at every airport.

[Megan1993]

Originally Posted by Johny Joe Hold

I've never understood who owns Puerto Rico. I always assumed that Mexico owns it because they speak Mexican.

Whoever owns it, that place needs to be warned they cannot keep sending these illegals into our beautiful country without consequences.We need Border Patrol asking for papers at every airport.

Puetro Rico Is an unincorporated us held territory..so technically it's our responsibility to give aid to them. While not officially a state they are considered in some context American Citizens.

[Basilissa]

Originally Posted by Megan1993

Puetro Rico Is an unincorporated us held territory..so technically it's our responsibility to give aid to them. While not officially a state they are considered in some context American Citizens.

They can't vote for President, which means they are second-class citizens at best, which means they don't deserve as much help as the men and women in real America.

[Johny Joe Hold]

Originally Posted by Megan1993

Puetro Rico Is an unincorporated us held territory..so technically it's our responsibility to give aid to them. While not officially a state they are considered in some context American Citizens.

I think you should ask Mexico if that island is ours. I'm guessing they will say, "They speak Mexican, it belongs to us."

[Didymus Much]

Originally Posted by Megan1993

...they are considered in some context American Citizens.

NO. They are fully American citizens. Those are Americans, full stop, whose suffering Dorito Mussolini is ignoring, downplaying, and even ridiculing. Your ignorance of their status allows him to continue peddling the lies and bullshit to his faithful.

A full month later, and 90% don't have power back on? TAF?? Donnie too busy insulting dead soldiers and their families to deal with actually governing that SAD!!! excuse for a country.

If 10% of them leave PR and go to Florida (as they have the RIGHT to), that state would never be red again. And without Florida, no more Repuglican control of House or Senate.

"You may say I'm a dreamer..."

[Megan1993]

Originally Posted by Didymus Much

NO. They are fully American citizens. Those are Americans, full stop, whose suffering Dorito Mussolini is ignoring, downplaying, and even ridiculing. Your ignorance of their status allows him to continue peddling the lies and bullshit to his faithful.

A full month later, and 90% don't have power back on? TAF?? Donnie too busy insulting dead soldiers and their families to deal with actually governing that SAD!!! excuse for a country.

If 10% of them leave PR and go to Florida (as they have the RIGHT to), that state would never be red again. And without Florida, no more Repuglican control of House or Senate.

"You may say I'm a dreamer..."

I'm sorry but your average American has no clue of the status as to what class of citizenship Puerto Rico. Hur de durr...

[Basilissa]

Originally Posted by Megan1993

I'm sorry but your average American has no clue of the status as to what class of citizenship Puerto Rico. Hur de durr...

I assume you are including yourself in the category of your average American since your first comment was that they "are considered in some context American Citizens."

[Dr. Anthony J. Toole]

Originally Posted by Didymus Much

If 10% of them leave PR and go to Florida (as they have the RIGHT to), that state would never be red again. And without Florida, no more Repuglican control of House or Senate.

Time for another travel ban? No-one from PR is allowed to travel anywhere for 7 years. Isn't PR that place where they keep dangerous terrorists? That's what I believe anyway.

[Johny Joe Hold]

Originally Posted by Dr. Anthony J. Toole

Time for another travel ban? No-one from PR is allowed to travel anywhere for 7 years. Isn't PR that place where they keep dangerous terrorists? That's what I believe anyway.

What worries me are the diseases and customs they will bring here. I've heard the popular alcoholic drink in Puerto Rice is called "tequila."

We don't need more bums passed out in the gutter.

[WilliamJenningsBryan]

Originally Posted by Didymus Much

NO. They are fully American citizens. Those are Americans, full stop, whose suffering Dorito Mussolini is ignoring, downplaying, and even ridiculing. Your ignorance of their status allows him to continue peddling the lies and bullshit to his faithful.

A full month later, and 90% don't have power back on? TAF?? Donnie too busy insulting dead soldiers and their families to deal with actually governing that SAD!!! excuse for a country.

If 10% of them leave PR and go to Florida (as they have the RIGHT to), that state would never be red again. And without Florida, no more Repuglican control of House or Senate.

"You may say I'm a dreamer..."

Sure, let them move to Florida and vote in the very socialist communist government that’s left them in the dark in the first place. Their "power problems" are of their own making, and there is little Trump can do to help them - except keep them from turning the state of Florida into the squalor and Democrat corruption they've left behind.

They need to turn to Jesus who, if I'm not mistaken, was the first one to proclaim "Let there be light" (Genesis 1:3).

The story of Puerto Rico’s power grid is the story of Puerto Rico
Even before Hurricane Maria hit, it was a mess
Print edition - United States
Oct 19th 2017 - SALINAS

. . .

Maria’s fury would have battered any grid, but the scope of the damage, the sluggish pace of repairs and the suffering from weeks without power have almost as much to do with mismanagement as they do with wind and rain. Last year Synapse Energy, a consultancy based in Massachusetts, carried out the first-ever audit of the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority (PREPA) and found that the power lines were “cracking, corroding and collapsing”. The utility had been operating for decades without regulation or oversight. Imprudent spending was accelerating a decade-old debt crisis. “The results are grim,” the authors wrote. “PREPA’s system appears to be running on fumes.”

The story of PREPA is the story of Puerto Rico. The utility, created by a New Deal governor in 1941, powered rapid industrialisation in the 1970s as American pharmaceutical and other firms flocked to the island to take advantage of federal tax benefits. By offering stable, well-paid jobs to electrical workers, PREPA helped create a Puerto Rican middle class, says José Caraballo Cueto, an economist at the University of Puerto Rico. The boom was short-lived. When the federal government peeled back the tax perks in 1996, factories started leaving and PREPA began losing customers.

Declining revenues were exacerbated by political patronage, corruption and inefficiency. Municipalities and government agencies do not pay for electricity in Puerto Rico. Successive governments spent tens of millions of dollars evaluating solar and natural-gas projects in order to wean PREPA off its dependence on oil, but did next to nothing. Less than 3% of the island’s energy came from renewables.

PREPA is responsible for $9bn of Puerto Rico’s $73bn of debt. As PREPA and other agencies borrowed billions of dollars from international creditors (and from each other, a practice some have compared to a Ponzi scheme), the utility started skimping on maintenance. In 2014 an austerity law prompted hundreds of experienced employees to retire and claim their pensions before cuts took effect. They were never replaced. The result, according to Synapse’s report, was generator failures, blackout rates four times higher than other American utilities, rising consumer costs, environmental violations and an increasing numbers of worker injuries and fatalities. A three-day blackout in 2016 caused by a fire at the Aguirre plant foreshadowed the darkness and economic standstill Hurricane Maria would bring. “We took the risk and we are paying the price,” says Mr Torres, peering at his poster.

. . .

https://www.economist.com/news/unite...cos-power-grid

[Brother Gonzalez]

Well, Maria is a famous song from a renowned portorican, the also renowned gay Ricky Martin.

I guess punishing them with a hurricane with the same name of this song is a way of God to tell them to stop sinning.


http://lyricstranslate.com/en/node/105095

[GaleWhoring the Boring (On Moderation)]

Originally Posted by Brother Gonzalez

Well, Maria is a famous song from a renowned portorican, the also renowned gay Ricky Martin.

I guess punishing them with a hurricane with the same name of this song is a way of God to tell them to stop sinning.


http://lyricstranslate.com/en/node/105095

The only song 'Maria' I know is by Blondie. One of my idols.

[GaleWhoring the Boring (On Moderation)]

Here, a working link.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RciSEvedXvs