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Couple of stories. The first is how the federal mandated minimum wage is helping to damage the territory's economy

The Federal Minimum Wage Is Killing Puerto Rico's Economy

The second is how the island's treasurer magically found the money he said they didn't have, but shouldn't have had to use it to pay it's debts.

Treasurer Admits Puerto Rico Can Pay Debts, Doesn’t Want To


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The governor further claimed that if he were to pay the debt, the government would have to go without paying police, teachers, and nurses: “We are not going to allow the heavy burden of inherited debt to bring us to our knees.”
Of course there's no mention of not being able to pay the governor, legislators, and others who caused the problem in the 1st place. Their cut ALWAYS get paid first.


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Ahhhh, yes. The "inherited debt" thingie.


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Puerto Rico wants us to keep handing them money.. forever. But, they don't want the US to have a say in where or how it gets spent. It's been that way for a long time.

While it is a US territory, it's still just another banana republic, IMO.


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