LogicIsForSquares Posted August 4, 2015 Report Share Posted August 4, 2015 https://news.vice.com/article/puerto-rico-just-defaulted-on-its-debt?utm_source=vicenewsfb You are going to start seeing more stuff like this. I fully expect the U.S. to cover the bill. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LogicIsForSquares Posted August 4, 2015 Author Report Share Posted August 4, 2015 Rather, we will borrow money from China to pay off Puerto Rican debt. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gftChris Posted August 4, 2015 Report Share Posted August 4, 2015 I was under the impression Puerto Rico was part of the US? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OldBrownsFan Posted August 4, 2015 Report Share Posted August 4, 2015 18 plus trillion in debt and growing, $100 trillion in unfunded liabilities, government printing money, currently taking in a record amount of tax revenue with increased Obama taxes that has not stopped the national debt from climbing higher (proving we have out of control spending),....we are headed for financial trouble and who will bail the United States out? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LogicIsForSquares Posted August 4, 2015 Author Report Share Posted August 4, 2015 I was under the impression Puerto Rico was part of the US? It is a common wealth but they have regularly stared they don't want statehood due to taxation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LogicIsForSquares Posted August 4, 2015 Author Report Share Posted August 4, 2015 18 plus trillion in debt and growing, $100 trillion in unfunded liabilities, government printing money, currently taking in a record amount of tax revenue with increased Obama taxes that has not stopped the national debt from climbing higher (proving we have out of control spending),....we are headed for financial trouble and who will bail the United States out? No one. It will get ugly sooner rather than later. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BaconHound Posted August 4, 2015 Report Share Posted August 4, 2015 18 plus trillion in debt and growing, $100 trillion in unfunded liabilities, government printing money, currently taking in a record amount of tax revenue with increased Obama taxes that has not stopped the national debt from climbing higher (proving we have out of control spending),....we are headed for financial trouble and who will bail the United States out? Thankfully everyone since their economies depend on ours. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DieHardBrownsFan Posted August 4, 2015 Report Share Posted August 4, 2015 Puerto Rico is like a bad case of the crabs, its on you but not really part of you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
calfoxwc Posted August 5, 2015 Report Share Posted August 5, 2015 I remember my friend Ponce, from Puerto Rico. Always telling me that PR needed desperately to become America's 51st state. He said a lot of his friends didn't agree, they wanted to be isolated, and not pay taxes. He kept explaining that the influx of jobs, and people, would offset the taxes, and that the poverty was just hurting so many there and they can't get out. But he said they wouldn't listen. He was in the Air Force, and sent nearly all of every paycheck back home to his parents. That was back in 73/74. I hope he's been having a wonderful life. I remember we were on a cruise with a big bunch of friends...and toured there. Iron bars on the doors and windows of buildings, poor living in ramshackle shacks, and selling fruit out front, that they found in the rainforest. I'm surprised their crashing economically hasn't happened decades ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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