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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The landscapes of puerto rico are amazing.  It looks like a very hilly florida with narrow winding roads. Very tasty, but unhealthy food there.

It's also very very run down, like how much of the carribean looks.  Probably due to intense sun+salt air. Ponce never recovered post Maria. [/quote]

Puerto Rico has been dragged down by a lot of things, not just Hurricane Maria.   Loss of corporate tax incentives such as Section 936 caused a mass exodus of manufacturing and pharma from Puerto Rico, the Jones Act increases the cost of shipping between Puerto Rico and the mainland, they are still struggling with the recession that started with the pandemic, they need serious funds to fix their ailing energy and utility infrastructure.

They need debt restructuring, federal infrastructure investment, tax incentives, disaster relief funding, economic development programs, investments in energy infrastructure and a reform to the Jones Act.   But all they could look forward to from a Trump presidency is to be called a "shithole," to have crass racist "jokes" hurled their way along with suggestions they be stripped of citizenship, maybe even be accused of eating cats and dogs, and when the next hurricane hits, have rolls of paper towels chucked at them.[/quote]

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