Why is anyone even considering any sort of "plan" to bail out Puerto Rico. Ryan working with Pelosi??????

Turncoat SOB.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/25/business/dealbook/plan-to-rescue-puerto-rico-advances-led-by-house-republicans.html?_r=0

There isn't a situation most congressmen won't throw billions of our dollars at.

It's time to kick those RINO bastards to the curb. 

Quote from: tac on April 15, 2016, 06:28:08 PM
It's time to kick those RINO bastards to the curb. 

It's time to kick our largest welfare state to the curb. Then deport the RINOs to run it.

Quote from: Billy's bayonet on April 15, 2016, 05:21:24 PM
Why is anyone even considering any sort of "plan" to bail out Puerto Rico. Ryan working with Pelosi??????

Turncoat SOB.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/25/business/dealbook/plan-to-rescue-puerto-rico-advances-led-by-house-republicans.html?_r=0

Nothing but more Washington BS. Another bureaucracy set up to do nothing. Let the damn place go into bankruptcy and destroy the liberal failures that caused this situation.

"The rescue package is primarily the work of House Republicans under the direction of Paul Ryan, the House speaker, in consultation with the Treasury Department and Democratic leaders, including Representative Nancy Pelosi, the minority leader."

Think Omnibus Bill....
So what could possibly go wrong with these two leftists working out a solution?

Choices.
(1) You're grown, you're on your own. Independence. Your debt, your problem.
(2) If you can't add and subtract, you don't deserve to be a commonwealth. So you are now reduced to a US territory. We'll appoint the Governor and all other government officials. English will become the official language. We'll fold your debt into the the US debt. There will be Federal corruption trials for all those officials who stole the money. Don't like it - see option (1).       

Quote from: Solar on April 16, 2016, 05:10:13 AM
"The rescue package is primarily the work of House Republicans under the direction of Paul Ryan, the House speaker, in consultation with the Treasury Department and Democratic leaders, including Representative Nancy Pelosi, the minority leader."

Think Omnibus Bill....
So what could possibly go wrong with these two leftists working out a solution?

The liberal democrats will pay $3 on every $100 to actually payng their bills. The rest will line their pockets.

Quote from: mdgiles on April 16, 2016, 07:32:27 AM
Choices.
(1) You're grown, you're on your own. Independence. Your debt, your problem.
(2) If you can't add and subtract, you don't deserve to be a commonwealth. So you are now reduced to a US territory. We'll appoint the Governor and all other government officials. English will become the official language. We'll fold your debt into the the US debt. There will be Federal corruption trials for all those officials who stole the money. Don't like it - see option (1).     

Quote from: Billy's bayonet on April 15, 2016, 05:21:24 PM
Why is anyone even considering any sort of "plan" to bail out Puerto Rico.

Blame the people that designated Puerto Rico as an American Territory in 1898... 'under the sovereign jurisdiction of the Federal Government', with the umbrella of the Constitution extended to them. 

The meat of the Provision would've applied to the Territory Of Arizona, the Territory of Alaska, etc., all the way back to the Louisiana Purchase... before they all achieved Statehood.

Congress is obligated to keep them solvent or let them declare bankruptcy, like Detroit.  -Then oversee  restructuring by-committee.  The obvious cost-cutting the committee will decide upon is PR's pension-funds.

The only out is to declare PR's territorial status as null.  I'd be for that in a perfect setting... but there'd be a furious outcry, lasting for years.  And we'd need passports to go there.  Right now, we just need a couple photo-ID's, birth certificate, and proof of sea/air tickets.   

Bail them out? Absolutely. If they allow an audit of their government and then put in a conservative governor and accept some serious austerity.

Quote from: kit saginaw on April 16, 2016, 08:25:45 PM
Blame the people that designated Puerto Rico as an American Territory in 1898... 'under the sovereign jurisdiction of the Federal Government', with the umbrella of the Constitution extended to them. 

The meat of the Provision would've applied to the Territory Of Arizona, the Territory of Alaska, etc., all the way back to the Louisiana Purchase... before they all achieved Statehood.

Congress is obligated to keep them solvent or let them declare bankruptcy, like Detroit.  -Then oversee  restructuring by-committee.  The obvious cost-cutting the committee will decide upon is PR's pension-funds.

The only out is to declare PR's territorial status as null.  I'd be for that in a perfect setting... but there'd be a furious outcry, lasting for years.  And we'd need passports to go there.  Right now, we just need a couple photo-ID's, birth certificate, and proof of sea/air tickets.   

Doesn't Puerto Rico have a special status that grants it greater powers that regular state governments? In any case, by no stretch of the imagination should the US bail out Puerto Rico; what happens then when Illinois, California, NY, NJ CT and RI come calling?

Quote from: mdgiles on April 17, 2016, 08:02:57 AM
Doesn't Puerto Rico have a special status that grants it greater powers that regular state governments? In any case, by no stretch of the imagination should the US bail out Puerto Rico; what happens then when Illinois, California, NY, NJ CT and RI come calling?

Exactly. This is a democrat trick to set precedent to bailout the failed states you mention.