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  • LogicIsForSquares LogicIsForSquaresL Dedicated Reacting Well Conversation Starter Very Popular Posting Machine Collaborator First Post One Year In One Month Later Week One Done
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    LogicIsForSquaresL LogicIsForSquares wrote on last edited by
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    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.

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      LogicIsForSquaresL LogicIsForSquares wrote on last edited by
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      Rather, we will borrow money from China to pay off Puerto Rican debt.

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        gftChrisG gftChris wrote on last edited by
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        I was under the impression Puerto Rico was part of the US?

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          OldBrownsFanO OldBrownsFan wrote on last edited by
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          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?

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            I was under the impression Puerto Rico was part of the US?

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            LogicIsForSquaresL LogicIsForSquares wrote on last edited by
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            @gftchris said:

            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.

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              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?

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              LogicIsForSquaresL LogicIsForSquares wrote on last edited by
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              @oldbrownsfan said:

              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.

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                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?

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                @oldbrownsfan said:

                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.

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                  DieHardBrownsFanD DieHardBrownsFan wrote on last edited by
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                  Puerto Rico is like a bad case of the crabs, its on you but not really part of you.

                  "You planning on having a long relationship with that glass or are you going to drink it? Drink up, man. Maybe we can get another.” - Janis Joplin, 1970.
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                    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.

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