Wait, We're Doing WHAT To Puerto Rico? WE SHOULD STOP THAT.
Donald Trump knows two things about Puerto Rico:
It's far away in THE OCEAN, so you can't drive a truck there. And ...
It has a lot of debt.
So Monday night, President Trump took a break from scream-tweeting at the NFL to remind hurricane-ravaged Puerto Rico that it needs to get its shit together so it can make its vig.
Texas & Florida are doing great but Puerto Rico, which was already suffering from broken infrastructure & massive debt, is in deep trouble..
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 26, 2017
Let us not be coy. Support for the Jones act also comes from the unions that build and crew ships. The Jones act is just one of many ways Puerto Rico gets screwed by the rest of the US. The legislation that made it easy to borrow money with triple exempt bonds was offset by rules that made it impossible for Puerto Rico to compete economically because of imposed wage and labor law. So they are stuck in the middle of the ocean with rules that would make it impossible to locate any sort of industry there. Those rules were erected by both the Republicans and the Democrats.
Colonies, how does that work?