“If Puerto Rico was a bank we would have no problem helping in any way possible,” House Republicans said. “But it’s not.”
House Natural Resources Committee…really? How does this fall under that august panel’s oversight?
I smell a rat. The transfer of Federal lands on Vieques to the territory? Por que? What lies under that land?
… what a… surprise… 
This should be easy work for budgetary wonk Paul Ryan and the magic asterisk. He’ll get right on it as soon as he’s finished with that plan to replace every word of Obamacare.
It absolutely astounds me that Paul Ryan became identified as a “policy wonk.” What substantive legislation has he ever proposed and passed?
This is it in a very large nutshell. If the American people with the help of the media can see through this hedge fund scheme, we may have a chance of righting our economy and properly REGULATING CAPITALISM.
To stop the hedge funds from walking away with millions congress must act soon. The delay helps the hedge funds.
Here is the long complicated explaination of the hedge fund game.
House GOP Misses Self-Imposed Deadline To Help Puerto Rico
No money in it for them so FU to Puerto Rico, after all they are not like us.
What’s in a name? That which we call a wonk by any other name would smell as pungent.
“…a hospital unable to provide some basic services to infants.” To GOP that’s ok. The infants aren’t in a womb.
He drafted and sponsored a bill to rename a Milwaukee Post Office Building. Paul Ryan can only self promote as a policy wonk or expert in the Modern Dixiecrat GOP, where Neanderthals and Freedom Caucus types with no policy expertise or interest are the norm. The norm is a vacuous ideologue like Kevin McCarthy. Paul Ryan is a one eyed man in the land of the blind.
He said the bill will not set a precedent for ailing states, as some have feared. He said the legislation is designed to apply only to Puerto Rico.
Isn’t that exactly the problem, though? Puerto Rico’s financial problems all come from a laundry list of laws and loopholes (thanks, Strom Thurmond) that only apply to Puerto Rico. Get rid of the differentiation already and just treat it like part of the US. Because it is.
The GoP leaders of the 114th Congress are poor performers and both should be fired from their jobs immediately!
Citizens are living in dire straits in Puerto Rico! This is insane…but typical of the racist GoP!
Keep waving that racist flag in front of the Latino population guys. It should really help GOTV.
I believe Puerto Ricans who are US residents can vote. I can’t seem to find the requirements.
Concerned about a precedent for aid to “ailing” states? Some Congressmen and Senators better be careful what they wish for … those from Kansas maybe?
They are that special class, they can vote, but no representation in Congress and no electoral votes.
I imagine that’s it’s like DC, until they would be reliable Republican votes their voices cannot be heard.
John Oliver did a segment on it awhile back about American Samoa and other territories and it’s pretty shameful.
This is really worth watching to understand why PR is in such dire straights:
So the GOP wants to set up a system like they used in Michigan where they appoint emergency managers to restructure debt and impose draconian austerity measures like they did to Flint when they forced them to change the source of their water with no concern for the consequences and while ensuring contracts go to friends of the emergency manager or governor while the Democrats are trying to allow PR to simply restructure its debt.
Terrible precedent. That is the fight all across the western states: give federall land to local control for exploitaction and decimation.
Republicans do that well. Nothing.