According to Zero Hedge, between persistent inflation, trade wars, and AI-related job disruptions, the outlook on the U.S. economy is once again ticking to “uncertain.”
We are looking at possibly forcing people onto state support.
Zero Hedge posted a map, via Visual Capitalist’s Pallavi Rao that, that shows the distribution. Puerto Rico New Mexico, West Virginia are the worst and Utah, North Dakota and Wyoming are the best, but most states aren’t where we would want them until you get to the last four or so.
Puerto Rico has always been an issue. Nothing new there. It’s an Island economy with progressives running it. There are only three point two million people living in Puerto Rico. There are five point eight million Puerto Rican people living in the U.S. in every state in the union.
Puerto Rico stands out with 47% of households receiving assistance.
You can check out the map here. The number of people on SNAP averages 13% in the country.
The author of the map says the poverty is the result of colonialism. How would it be better without the US? I can’t say. They are independent for the most part, and could vote for independence to solve that issue.
Sec. Rubio is concerned about Puerto Rico and may be able to help
The Federal government used to pay out SNAP alone but the states now share it. That means the blue states with their overly generous welfare, which includes people here illegally, will pay more.
The article didn’t deal with how much criminals take advantage of SNAP. There is a lot of fraud.
The Big Beautiful Bill moved some expenses to the states hoping they will be more careful about how they spend. The red states have a lot of poverty. Louisiana is trying to deal with it by attracting developing, like META’s AI.
We can’t afford to take in the world after all. We need to take care of our own people first.
Natural born $ocialism.
This is exactly why we need to server all ties with PR.
Cloward and Piven on steroids
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloward%E2%80%93Piven_strategy
Communist plan to DESTROY America—working very well.
Well, this explains why the democRAT wants to make PR a state.
cut it off
Puerto Rico has not recovered from Hurricane Maria from 2017. Estimated 800K+ people fled the island to the States. No power, no water, no shelter left. Wiped off the map. Never recovered. Big billionaire investors quietly came in to buy up land and sat on it. It’s complete lawless there right now. If you go outside the designated safe tourist zones, you will be severely beaten, stabbed or murdered. This is not new news. These dark investors are waiting for something to begin the corporate rebuild into ugly high rise condos and hotels. Maybe more land?
Owing to corrupt judges, almost half of the island’s population is on disability.
Democrats wanted to make Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands new states. It’s time for Trump and Republicans to get bold and cut loose those territories and let them become nations. We don’t need them. They offe no value and are a drain on our finances.
Take it over and make it an island resort. Problem solved.
Puerto Pobre should be their new name…
And guess where the money comes from to pay for all those Puerto Ricans on public assistance. In 2022 alone, the US treasury sent $33.4 Billion dollars (yeah, that’s a “B”) to Puerto Rico. That would be our tax money.
We’re so lucky to “own” Puerto Rico as a US territory. /sarc
But how many of the people are not legally qualified to be on food stamps?
cut them loose
We won’t cut them loose because too many tax breaks for the rich who keep a residence there. Look into it.
Exactly Peter Schiff a wealthy speculator who I read a lot lives there for that reason . This is why most of the rich are all big democrats. High taxes don’t bother them because they don’t pay them. High welfare spending subsidizes their cheap labor . They can pay them less
The figure suggest that the island suffers a cultural problem.
What could be done to change the culture. Those who governs are part of the cultural problem.
I believe providing real job training and work opportunities while cutting welfare would be a great start.
Even though it is very general, you nailed it with your opening sentence: Puerto Rico — just like us here on the “mainland” — has a CULTURAL PROBLEM.
Where it is this cultural problem by which we, collectively, vote into office WAY TOO MANY SELF-SERVING SOCIOPATHIC JUDAS POLITICIANS.
Sociopaths they are, because, by definition, sociopath are those who hold no empathy for their fellow citizens; where, such sociopaths are narcissistic and self-serving, “promising the moon” to get votes, but, in reality, delivering little if anything, where in the end, the main thing they do is ENRICH THEMSELVES; where then in their self-serving eagerness for another 30-pieces of silver, they go on to their next scam … to do it all over again; where, way too often, We The People FALL FOR SUCH SCAMS and vote back into office these very same evil clowns.
This is why there are so many of these LYING, CHEATING, STEALING sociopathic politicians: because they KNOW that most times they can get away with their massive scams … with TONS of TAXPAYER treasure, held by our GOVT systems, drawing these criminal sociopaths like the bright lights draw the moth.
Our CHALLENGE is HOW DO WE FIX THE CULTURE; how do we change our focus so that We the People are not voting into office so many of these same self-serving sociopaths?
The general answer: [1] we, as a NATION, through self-education-motivation, either come to understand that we MUST change and change ourselves toward a realization of NATIONAL RESPONSIBILITY; or, [2] we can do it the hard way … and fall into collapse — where with our MASSIVE DEBT ever growing, such a collapse may not be far off — and then in our state of collapse and disunity we can then FIGHT IT OUT.
As always, just like it was for our FOUNDERS, the ultimate choice is up to us, We the People, and up to us alone. The Buck Stops with us. We can either choose to do the responsible things, by which we can remain FREE CITIZENS, or, we can continue to do the irresponsible things and transform our NATION into one of CONTROLLED SUBJECTS.
I see it as a different “problem”. Puerto Rico is an unincorporated US “territory”. It’s not a state, and it’s not part of the US. And clearly, they’re a major financial drain, one we don’t need.
I say cut ’em loose and let ’em sink or swim on their own. What’s in it for us? Why should it be incumbent on US taxpayers to keep ’em afloat – financially, culturally, or any other way?
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