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Thursday, September 28, 2017

puerto rico

I see where the media are now trying to make FEMA's response to the hurricane damage in Puerto Rico out to be 'Trump's Katrina.' (This, of course, since the FEMA efforts in Texas and Florida have been largely successful). Forget that Puerto Rico is a thousand miles from Miami and that its road system has been pretty totally destroyed.

But I'm looking beyond that. I think we should fix Puerto Rico up, give it a brand spanking new electric grid, and then bid it a fond adieu as we grant it independence. God knows we should never let it become a state.

I've never understood why we've even kept that island this long. We granted the other spoils of the Spanish-American War-- Cuba and the Phillippines-- their independence long ago. What do we need Puerto Rico for? It's just been an albatross around our neck. We've thrown tens of billions of taxpayer dollars at that island to try to bring it into the modern world, and it just hasn't worked. They're in debt up to their eyeballs, a debt they can never pay off and are now (of course) trying to unload on the US taxpayer. Give it up for a bad job and move on.

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