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You think All puerto ricans are all part of democratic party plantation your are wrong we are NOT! And did you know the current governor party The pnp has over a 60 year link with Republicans! most puerto rican are very culturally conservative!
20-30% of PNP members are Democrats ... Ricky and Pedro Rossello, Pedro Pierluisi, Mayita in Ponce, and Carlos Romero Barcelo to name 4 prominent Democrats within the party. Though yes, they are more like Joe Manchin than Elizabeth Warren.
The thing is though, Trump's delayed response and babbling about the debt issue and cost of rebuilding will drive them right into the Democrats' arms.
Actually you are quite wrong. Over the last few years s the P.R. economy has been in the toilet the influx of Puerto ricans into florida has been significant. Hurricane Maria will accelerate that.
Spoken as a Floridian.
I tend to agree with your statement. I would liken it as akin to "the straw that broke the camel's back". I lived in southern California for 15 years and put up with abject misery as a renter for many years until a certain event or series of events that caused me to rethink my plan to stay there any longer and return to Texas. More locally, a large number of the Katrina refugees fled to Houston back in 2005 and are still here.
As a LOT of us on CDF have said: Puerto Rico's losing people every day and, word is many times, it's their best dudes and ladies. This hot mess was already going on BEFORE 2017.
Maria IMHO will force many more PR people to leave for the mainland; what's gonna happen to the island? All ask is keep it classy, fellow posters since ALL Puerto Ricans are US citizens.
They won't find anywhere to live in Florida unless they have family. Too many homes destroyed. No rentals,no hotel rooms. It is a mess in Florida with flooding,people sleeping in their cars. They better pick another state to go to. It will take time for Florida to get back to normal.
We are being hit with more heavy rains and much land in certain areas look like a lake.
Puerto Ricans and Cubans vote Republican.
Also, Puerto Rico will be rebuilt and the vast majority will most likely move back when it's up and running again with new houses, new buildings, new malls and schools.
Contrary to what some people want you to believe, Puerto Rico will not be a deserted island with nothing living in it except bugs and lizards.
Where are these people going to live? There's only so much government housing available and hotels aren't going to risk losing tourist dollars by housing hurricane refugees.
Where are these people going to live? There's only so much government housing available and hotels aren't going to risk losing tourist dollars by housing hurricane refugees.
Careful. You do not want to be labeled anti-military. P.R. is an American territory and part of its value has been as a military training site. Our Navy would lob missles on Visquez Island. Something no U.S. state would put up with.
With so many Puerto Rican's looking to move to Florida, it could have a huge impact on how Florida votes in future elections.
"Puerto Ricans are American citizens, thanks to a law passed in 1917. As a result, all they need to settle in the mainland is a plane ticket or a berth on a boat.
Their citizenship entitles them to vote, and they tend to overwhelmingly support Democratic candidates.
Florida-based Republican operative Rick Wilson thinks the hurricane might be a game changer. “If you put an influx of 100,000 Puerto Ricans who vote Democratic eight times out of 10 in the Orlando area, there you go,” he said."
The Daily 202: Trump’s Katrina? Influx of Puerto Ricans after Hurricane Maria could tip Florida toward Democrats.
The island is mostly wiped out of homes there. The homes are flimsy and could not withstand a cat 5. The people of Puerto Rico need to come first before illegals as far as housing ,jobs and medical care.
To rebuild there when so much destruction is a very long time coming.. If they rebuild the homes there, the codes have to be much stricter. . The homes should be fortified. That means much more costs. It could happen again.. Pray for Puerto Rico. Just heard they are burying their police who were killed in the storm.
What will evetually happen to Puerto Rico is.... Super rich white Banksters will buy up Huge amounts of land and resources, under the clause that "PR owes em". Essentially raping the island, they will gentrify and segregate the remaining population. Then bring in low-wage workers probably illegal immigtants from the Dominican Republic, to do work native Puerto Ricans wouldnt do (same thing in the US with native blacks and illegal mexicans).
Alll that after banks helped cause the economic decline to cripple PR and create a mass exudus, and Haarp engineered a catergory 5 hurricane to go right at Puerto Rico and further intensify the exodus. And the racist money-hungry Trump administration will do nothing to help, they are actually in favor of the way things are headed. Kick the Ricans out and take control of their island.
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