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[brutus79]

lmao

they mismanaged their island, drove it to complete bankruptcy and some how they have the skills to manage this aftermath of the hurricane? i think not.

they don’t even pay into the US federal tax system and they’re bitching and complaining about the response. it comes across ungrateful.

Puerto Rico pays 4 billion a year into the federal system for taxes. The residents pay a local income tax and the island itself pays the taxes.... you sound kind of stupid right now. With zero congressional representation they are the epitome of taxation without representation, so on a federal level they really don't have much of an opportunity to "mismanage". I'm sure you could have done a much better job though.

 

[brutus79]

Puerto Rico is not large enough to stand alone. We must govern it wisely and well, primarily in the interest of its own people.

–Theodore Roosevelt

 

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Puerto Rico pays 4 billion a year into the federal system for taxes. The residents pay a local income tax and the island itself pays the taxes.... you sound kind of stupid right now. With zero congressional representation they are the epitome of taxation without representation, so on a federal level they really don't have much of an opportunity to "mismanage". I'm sure you could have done a much better job though.

“they”. = Puerto Rican citizens in my previous. not sure why you couldn’t figure that one out.

dumb fuck, Puerto Rican citizens DO NOT pay federal income tax . Unless you’re a federal government worker.

https://www.irs.gov/taxtopics/tc900/tc901

 

[brutus79]

Do you read? Have someone read my post to you... slowly. I did not state that the citizens pay federal income tax... they pay an income tax locally. Then pr pays federally. 4 billion. Dumbfuck.

I didn't hear any piping up about your lack of history accuracy... dug up some facts for you but you probably need them on a meme.

When the US took over Puerto Rico in 1898, Puertoricans fed themselves. Their economy was primarily agricultural. Around 40% of the land was given over to coffee, 32% for growing food for local consumption, 15% to sugar and 1% for tobacco. Over 90% of the farms and agricultural resources were owned by local Puertoricans. Within a few years, US tariffs required that Puertorican coffee had to be sent to the US before it could be sold in Europe. The 1899 hurricane and the adoption of US currency on the island was the death knell of Puertorican coffee production. US companies then began buying up land and soon sugar became the dominant crop, production increasing by an incredible 1200% by 1929 with 80% owned by US sugar companies. In the years between 1899-1929, unemployment went from 17% – 36% with ¼ to a third of workers unemployed most of the year. Eventually local food production collapsed and export dominated agricultural production became the norm. By 1940, 80% “of all farmland was owned by large corporations or landlords with 500 acres or more.” (Perez, 1976, pp. 6-7). Thus, during the Great Depression and up to the Second World War, Puertoricans were dirt poor, dependent upon the largess of the US for food and other resources amid a remarkable set of political machinations which mandated English, actually banned Spanish, and in open correspondence its overlords regarded locals as “mongrels” and “cannibals” whose “race mixing” as unsettling.

Growing during this time were a class of “pitiyanquis” (little Yankees), the “quislings” of PR who managed to ingratiate themselves to the US and benefit as minor officials in the local government, whose positions were always at the mercy of their obsequisness to their colonial masters. They morphed into the pro-statehood and pro-commonwealth parties who couldn´t imagine living without their connection to the US and whose descendants remain dominant in PR politics to this day. It is a classic colonial mindset Fanon would have recognized. And deplored.

But once upon a time there was resistance. The first was the independence strand within the Puerto Rico Union Party which also had statehood and local autonomy trends within it. After the 1917 Jones Act was passed, the Union Party broke into factions of which the Nationalist Party (formed in 1922) took the banner of full independence. The Socialist Party had left and right wing trends which eventually also ended up splitting into a Liberal Party (the left trend, fully in favor of independence) and a SP which joined forces with the Republican Party (founded in 1899 and assimilationist). It was the charismatic Pedro Albizu Campos who led the Nationalist Party into challenging the corrupt alliance of the SP and the Republicans and forcefully advocating for independence. However, years of suppression by the dominant US-backed local government leading to massacres, imprisonment, repression of Nationalist speakers, and finally COINTELPRO disruption of ANY independent movement all led to a conclusion many Puertoricans quickly absorbed: advocating for independence can lead to brutal suppression or even death. Joining up with the US, keeping one´s head low and subserviently accepting US domination of all aspects of life can lead to safety within the confines of a colonial relationship. To this day, this sentiment prevails, with emotional support for independentistas high but practical political support always going to the deferred parties of the status quo. No matter how many referenda are held, Puertoricans back down, fearing being cast adrift without help. Just like they are now.

 

[brutus79]

“they”. = Puerto Rican citizens in my previous. not sure why you couldn’t figure that one out.

dumb fuck, Puerto Rican citizens DO NOT pay federal income tax . Unless you’re a federal government worker.

https://www.irs.gov/taxtopics/tc900/tc901

Aaaaaaand your mother sucks cocks in hell by the way.

 

[Swiper]

Do you read? Have someone read my post to you... slowly. I did not state that the citizens pay federal income tax... they pay an income tax locally. Then pr pays federally. 4 billion. Dumbfuck.

I didn't hear any piping up about your lack of history accuracy... dug up some facts for you but you probably need them on a meme.

When the US took over Puerto Rico in 1898, Puertoricans fed themselves. Their economy was primarily agricultural. Around 40% of the land was given over to coffee, 32% for growing food for local consumption, 15% to sugar and 1% for tobacco. Over 90% of the farms and agricultural resources were owned by local Puertoricans. Within a few years, US tariffs required that Puertorican coffee had to be sent to the US before it could be sold in Europe. The 1899 hurricane and the adoption of US currency on the island was the death knell of Puertorican coffee production. US companies then began buying up land and soon sugar became the dominant crop, production increasing by an incredible 1200% by 1929 with 80% owned by US sugar companies. In the years between 1899-1929, unemployment went from 17% – 36% with ¼ to a third of workers unemployed most of the year. Eventually local food production collapsed and export dominated agricultural production became the norm. By 1940, 80% “of all farmland was owned by large corporations or landlords with 500 acres or more.” (Perez, 1976, pp. 6-7). Thus, during the Great Depression and up to the Second World War, Puertoricans were dirt poor, dependent upon the largess of the US for food and other resources amid a remarkable set of political machinations which mandated English, actually banned Spanish, and in open correspondence its overlords regarded locals as “mongrels” and “cannibals” whose “race mixing” as unsettling.

Growing during this time were a class of “pitiyanquis” (little Yankees), the “quislings” of PR who managed to ingratiate themselves to the US and benefit as minor officials in the local government, whose positions were always at the mercy of their obsequisness to their colonial masters. They morphed into the pro-statehood and pro-commonwealth parties who couldn´t imagine living without their connection to the US and whose descendants remain dominant in PR politics to this day. It is a classic colonial mindset Fanon would have recognized. And deplored.

But once upon a time there was resistance. The first was the independence strand within the Puerto Rico Union Party which also had statehood and local autonomy trends within it. After the 1917 Jones Act was passed, the Union Party broke into factions of which the Nationalist Party (formed in 1922) took the banner of full independence. The Socialist Party had left and right wing trends which eventually also ended up splitting into a Liberal Party (the left trend, fully in favor of independence) and a SP which joined forces with the Republican Party (founded in 1899 and assimilationist). It was the charismatic Pedro Albizu Campos who led the Nationalist Party into challenging the corrupt alliance of the SP and the Republicans and forcefully advocating for independence. However, years of suppression by the dominant US-backed local government leading to massacres, imprisonment, repression of Nationalist speakers, and finally COINTELPRO disruption of ANY independent movement all led to a conclusion many Puertoricans quickly absorbed: advocating for independence can lead to brutal suppression or even death. Joining up with the US, keeping one´s head low and subserviently accepting US domination of all aspects of life can lead to safety within the confines of a colonial relationship. To this day, this sentiment prevails, with emotional support for independentistas high but practical political support always going to the deferred parties of the status quo. No matter how many referenda are held, Puertoricans back down, fearing being cast adrift without help. Just like they are now.

cool info, so you can copy and paste would you like a metal or a pat on the back?

 

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Aaaaaaand your mother sucks cocks in hell by the way.

you’re so intelligent did you think that all by yourself??? probably not is my guess

 

[Michael Scally MD]

Note: Erick Erickson ...



The President’s supporters will cheer that he is punching back. They will cheer that he is not taking it like Bush took all the post Katrina criticism.

But sometimes the President should be Presidential and getting in the mud is not. The people of Puerto Rico are hungry, thirsty, homeless, and fearful. They won’t hear a lot about President Trump’s twitter fight and it won’t matter to him because they cannot participate in the Electoral College.

It should matter to all of us though that the President is so willing to get in the mud and fight back when the mayor and everyone else in Puerto Rico need our empathy and compassion. Sometimes the President just does not need to dial up the jackass and sometimes he does not need to be defended.

So I have deleted my former post and he can stand or fall on the merits of his tweets this morning. Yay, President Trump punched a critic — a critic who is on an island trying her best to help others where most of the people now have no homes, no power, and no running water. What a man he is!

Updated: worth pointing out, as Susan noted, that the President also had the luxury of tweeting his responses from the comfort of his country club in New York while the mayor of San Juan is sleeping on a cot in a shelter. And he thought the optics of Tom Price on private planes were bad.

 

[brutus79]

cool info, so you can copy and paste would you like a metal or a pat on the back?

*medal
I hope you die in a house fire. Retard.

 

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*medal
I hope you die in a house fire. Retard.

using speak to text**
you’re so cool. wish i was like you.

well maybe not considering your past lol

 

[brutus79]

using speak to text**
you’re so cool. wish i was like you.

well maybe not considering your past lol

Ahhhhhh- a been banned. Sad that your past is one of having to create new screen names... I hope your family is in the house when it burns down and you go last.

 

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Ahhhhhh- a been banned. Sad that your past is one of having to create new screen names... I hope your family is in the house when it burns down and you go last.

lol not at all. you must be confused, again.

what’s your deal with wishing death upon me and my family? you’re one sick motherfucker.

 

[GigaloRob]

 

[Michael Scally MD]

TrumpTards, TrumpScum, TrumpIdiots, TrumpShits, ...



The storm-related fatalities are mounting with each passing day, and official numbers are not counting patients who are not receiving dialysis, oxygen and other essential services.

The dead are at the hospital morgues, which are at capacity and in remote places where the government has yet to go. In many cases, families are unaware of the deaths. The government’s Demographic Registry is responsible for certifying deaths so bodies can be removed by funeral homes, many of which are not operating because of lack of resources. The agency began to certify some of the dead Monday, Health Secretary Rafael Rodríguez-Mercado confirmed in an interview.

Public Safety Secretary Héctor Pesquera told the CPI that the names of the dead because of the hurricane will not be revealed until relatives can be notified. The continuing lack of communication has kept many people from knowing the whereabouts of their families. Since the storm’s immediate aftermath, many people have gone daily to radio stations so the on-air personalities can announce the names of family members with whom they have been unable to communicate.

A week after Maria, the government of Puerto Rico is struggling to supply basic services, such as fuel, road access and electricity. It provides a progress report of the efforts through a daily press conference at the Emergency Operations Center in San Juan. But not discussed is that the number of deaths resulting from the disaster are much higher than the 16 or 19 that have been given as the official tally.

CPI sources in half a dozen hospitals said those bodies are piling up at the morgues of the 69 hospitals in Puerto Rico, of which 70 percent are not operating. The majority of the hospital morgues that provided information — including Doctor’s Center in Bayamón and Santurce, Pavía Hospital in Santurce, Manatí Medical Center, Dr. Pila in Ponce, Río Piedras Medical Center, Mayagüez Medical Center and the HIMA hospitals in Caguas and Bayamón — are at full capacity. Those hospitals are among the 18 that are partially operational.

 

[Michael Scally MD]

 

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[Michael Scally MD]

 

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[Michael Scally MD]

 

[Michael Scally MD]