Crisis in the fifty-never state
Believe it or not but there’s a crisis in Puerto Rico. The American island-protectorate’s legislature has allowed spending to run away in such a manner that it… well, I don’t really know, but it’s apparently real bad. The Rochester Democrat and Chronicle has collected a bunch of priceless comments from area Puerto Ricans. Here’s my favorite:
My mother, a retiree and Social Security recipient in Puerto Rico, views this crisis as a cultural and political catastrophe. “We are not going to be the same. Adopting sales taxes will make us like the Americans,” she says. She also thinks it is a trick or a well-thought-out plan to force the island to become a state.
Surely things aren’t going to get that bad.
