Puerto Rico defaults today

[WIHS2006]

Originally Posted by mym

i'd like to see both. i remember when we had clothing manufacturing and tuna canneries on the west coast. it was like a golden age then. when they shut down we never recovered. the companies went to asia if i recall. they've since moved on from there again in a nonstop cycle. andi want to keep the smart kids too. not sure if they still exist but there was a small biotech industry out east. and im not talking pill factories. i think they may have been making medical devices?

Is this in Fajardo? On the west coast in Mayaguez there are some factories that produce uniforms and body armor for the US military ... but with the wars winding down and sequester imposed cutbacks who knows how much longer they will be in operation.

IMO what is killing manufacturing in Puerto Rico is the electric costs. I propose building an undersea energy cable between Puerto Rico and Florida which would allow Puerto Rico to receive electricity from the mainland and reduce the reliance on PREPA and it's oil based plants.

[mym]

i like the waste to energy plants idea and if one day solar energy becomes more feasible can we put solar paneling in sinkholes like the Arecibo observatory?

i'm more of an independent mindset so i disagree with a line from Florida for those reasons only. economically speaking i dont know which idea is smarter but agree that prices are ridiculous. is it too silly to wish for DR and PR cooperation on energy creation?

the biotech companies were in bayamon area or thereabouts if i recall correctly. i worked for a research center at UPR and they'd send me around to take pictures for pr stuff. some really cool stuff was going on. remote sensing thru jungles via lasers, biotech stuff from marine sciences and so much more that i forgot.