Do you think anyone will believe that the US gets 4 times back what it spends? The US spends 3 times more than PR is caable of genersating. How do you think all thise unwed mothers are able to support their brats? Money from their PapiChulos? They are sucking at Uncle Sam's breast and making more babies so they can get more $$$. The reality of PR is that, as much as PR thinks that it does not need the USA, rge opposite is true. Without the 12 billion a year in subsidies and handouts, this place would be like the DOminican Republic. There are none so blind as those who won't see......

Wed, Mar 31 01:13 2010 - 70.17.201.7 - message #4

Lets not forget that for every dollar the goverment of United States spends in Puerto Rico, they get more than ten times what they invested, or you think America is giving away money because they like Puerto Rico. America is giving money to Puerto Rico because they make a lot of more money than what they give to Puerto Rico. In America, its all about bussiness, and Puerto Rico does'nt mean anything elso to U.S, they give money because they are making more money, bussiness thats all my friends, thats all.

Wed, Mar 31 01:13 2010 - 70.17.201.7 - message #3

I totaly want independence for puerto rico,and would never call myself american.I would have prefered to have stayed part of spain then America.we were stolen from our mother country and forced to be a common wealth of the U.S.without the people of puerto rico having any vote on what They wanted their status to be.It was all about imperialisam for america ,they just wanted more land and got it,so stop making yourselves out to be heroes.you should leave puerto rico and take those dominicans with you since they want so badly to be in america.
Jose agosto ortiz

Wed, Mar 31 01:13 2010 - 70.17.201.7 - message #2

Give Puerto RIco what it wants and deserves: INDEPENDENCE! I live in PR full time now and if it wasn't for my father's health, I'd be out of here in less than a month. I lived here 30 years ago for 5 years and now, having returned to live here in 1/2002, I can tell you that, as an American citizen, it absolutely sucks to live here. I am disgusted be the lack of patriotism, that lack of pride of being American. The people here are glad to take the $16 BILLION that the U.S. taxpayers pours into their pockets but they do not support the war aainst terrorism here, nor do they desire to assimilate themselves into the USA. I say give them what they want and deserve: Total Independence. Reduce the amount of money that we send there. Let Puerto Rico understand what America has done for them these past 100 years that they have failed to appreciate or show respect. They don't want to display the United States flag in government agencies that receive funding from the Federal government. They do not want to allow the US Navy to train for combat on the island of Vieques which, in my book, constitutes a slap to the face of all patriotic American citizens. Can you believe their gall? We are at war and they don't care because an errant bomb killed a Puerto Rican observer by mistake. The Puerto Rico Independence Party will have you think that all the patriotic Americans that have been killed by friendly fire or in training errors were less important than this one individual. They don't want to permit English be taught in their schools but they want every penny the American Congress can send down because they have the best scam in their Commonwealth status going and no one has the intestinal fortitude either here or in the Congress to move them towards statehood or independence. I can tell you that the majority here are committed to keeping Spanish as the primary language and do not want to ever fully assimilate with America, either culturally or politically. To me, it is ironic that there are people trying to get into PR from the Dominican Republic who are literally dying to get here to enjoy the freedom and benefits of being an American and these people think that it is there God given right to be a leech on the body of the United States taxpayer. I find it absolutley disgusting!

Wed, Mar 31 01:13 2010 - 70.17.201.7 - message #1