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    USA TODAY‏Verified account @USATODAY 30 Jun 2016

    Puerto Rico needs to help itself says Josh Rivera via @USATOpinion (Photo: AP) http://usat.ly/29gTwLm pic.twitter.com/paqJpTKTGQ

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      1. SeparationCorp&State‏ @socasusa 30 Jun 2016
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        Puerto Rico has been driven by Federal Government policy for some time now...They are a US Territory. This is insane.

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      1. W. Burlette Carter‏ @wddaughter 30 Jun 2016
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        They will print you if you speak against your own.

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      1. Deplorable_VA‏ @Deplorable_VA 30 Jun 2016
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        Puerto Rico is like a Black Hole, no matter how much money you give them they will find a way to spend it.

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      1. Marguerite Duras‏ @LoverDuras 1 Jul 2016
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        One of the very few, rational, balanced perspectives I have read on this subject. More reason, less emotion, please.

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      1. HowardH‏ @HH41848213 30 Jun 2016
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        Amen! Congress continues to "bail out" irresponsible entities. They pretend it is not a "bail out" like we are stupid.

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      1. Marilyn Carino‏ @MarilynBMJ 30 Jun 2016
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        America intentionally created the No. 1 Welfare State. Now they're complaining about it.

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      1. Secret t‏ @Secret____t 30 Jun 2016
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        but, rather, they are all VOID AB INITIO. "All unlawful precedents began as justifiable measures." - Julius Caesar

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      1. Secret t‏ @Secret____t 30 Jun 2016
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        NONE of these PROVEN INSTANCES of "injurious STATE ACTION" (see, e.g., Iraq War Accounting FRAUD) are LEGALLY BINDING

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      1. Secret t‏ @Secret____t 30 Jun 2016
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        and/or SUBVERT OUR OWN FISCAL PRUDENCE under the alleged auspices of "GOP ideology" (see, KS "repealing Business Tax)

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      1. Secret t‏ @Secret____t 30 Jun 2016
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        We are a NATION OF LAWS- not some corrupt "alter ego" of FOREIGN MONARCHIES which want to "slowly starve the People"

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      1. Secret t‏ @Secret____t 30 Jun 2016
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        that is, despite THE FACT OUR OWN CONSTITUTION EXPRESSLY PROHIBITS EVERY SINGLE defunding mechanism CAUSING SHORTFALL

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      1. Secret t‏ @Secret____t 30 Jun 2016
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        to say nothing of RECAPTURING EVERY SINGLE $ that the SAUDI-FUNDED W REGIME/CONGRESS "purported to 'give away' to ___

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      1. Secret t‏ @Secret____t 30 Jun 2016
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        UNCONSTITUIONALLY "exempted" (see, e.g., Corporate/Fortune 500 "Tax Exemptions" since 1980) in ONE FELL SWOOP

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      1. Secret t‏ @Secret____t 30 Jun 2016
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        The NEXT PRESIDENT must simply RECAPTURE the AGGREGATE, PRESENT CASH VALUE (plus imputed interest) OF EVERY SINGLE $

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      1. Secret t‏ @Secret____t 30 Jun 2016
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        In related news, COINED STIMULUS is the "solution" to BOTH Puerto Rico's PROBLEMS as much as it is the United States'

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      1. Mr. Chen‏ @chenyx75 30 Jun 2016
        Replying to @USATODAY @usatopinion

        USA bails out PR, sending a signal, next time PR screw-up again, Uncle Sam will bail U out.

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      1. coldt45‏ @endf8 30 Jun 2016
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        Puerto Rico should have been cut loose decades ago. They contribute nothing to the U.S. economy.

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      1. Steffanie Barger‏ @ideasinfluence 30 Jun 2016
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        We help the rest of the world. Let's help our neighbor. #PuertoRico

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