Would Austerity-Stricken Puerto Rico be Better off as an Independent State?

1. Stockhold syndrome at its finest.

2. Went on a cruise from PR and our cab driver identified the Jones act as a key point of failure, something that needs to be eliminated asap, in order for the chains to be lifted.

3. Puerto Rico should be independent and demand reparations just like so-called Black Americans are demanding reparations from the US government for years of slavery and discrimination. If criminal Israel can get paid by US citizens, Puerto Rico should get reparations for colonialism and US sponsored discrimination. Tell those lazy politicians in Washington to get off their asses and do their jobs. Israel is getting paid and illegal aliens are getting paid. Why not Americans and Puerto Rico?

4. I rather see puerto rico as an independent island

5. PR would not be PR without the US. It would be Cuba or the Dominican Republic.

6. pto. rco.es un pueblo de cobardes, mendigan la libertad. no luchan por ella, la quieren en bandeja de plata, se matan entre ellos solo porque aquel le miro las nalgas a la mujer del otro. jamas cojerian las armas para defender su monoestrellada, como lo hizo don p. albizu, y don f. ojeda y otros de esas generaciones. hoy ven el -$$$$ y matan por el, no lo trabajan ni se lo ganan con el sudor de la frente, yo dijera voy a dar una bofeta a cualquier en particular ya estuviera tras las rejas. o hincado de rodillas pidiendo perdon, o esperando me pidan la renuncia de mi puesto por el presidente de la compañia en que trabaje. si quieres respeto debes respetar… no quemes bandera ajena, y no queman la tuya. debe prepararse pa'lo que va a caerle. por jugar a lo que no estaba preparado y sin capacidad para jugar…desde puerto rico, con amor.🌈… yo soy boricua pa'que tu lo sepas!!! ahh ahora el pueblo paga los platos rotos, como siempre… COBARDES con mayuscula…

7. If I lived there I would want out of the USA.

8. you mention Puerto Rico developing its own monetary system?! do you know what that takes? on top of having something to back it and a ton of problems that would affect the monetary going on of this country you would have to have someone print it,and not to forget those people that make a living on counterfeiting,,,,the currency could be ruined overnight !?

9. Puerto Rico cannot become a state if people think their paycheck is small try taking out federal taxes !? You keep talking about being able to vote???? the vote means nothing , look what happened when Trump got elected he and others have learned you work with the system and it favors the rich as it always will look who is running [ruining ?!} the country rich and soon to be rich.who pays more than the job pays to get the job people who can afford it or people that know it is a great investment,,,look at the Clintons,look it really does not matter the way it goes the decision will be made not so much for the good of the people but the good of the rich, and yes it is true the rich get richer,,greed always wins out

10. good vid, as a person that came here for retirement (i am a boriken) there are a great many things that could be fixed but it is GREED that is keeping it from happening.

11. yes then they can pay for their disasters instead of the usa . what a money pit.

12. puehrirtoh rrihcoh

13. independiente state moving in PUERTO rico is 0%

14. Absolutely!! Given a chance, PR will rise to the occasion and beat the odds, whatever the odds! We definitely have to work, a lot of work, but will overcome independent of the u.s!! Negative observation and opinions is absurd, many countries survive independently, why not PR? Please!!!

15. PUERTO RICO LOVES TRUMP THE GREATEST PRESIDENT EVER ❤️

16. Jamaica is just slightly bigger than Puerto Rico and it became independent from Great Brirtain in 1962 and they never looked back.
    Besides, what does size have to do with economic success?

17. Rico's are too damn lazy..Independant is better for them or any state in the United Snskes..but they wont know ..cause they're too darn lazy…BOTTOMLINE..

18. Sí, por supuesto.

19. ….. Independence only works if there is national unity among the people, at this moment their is no such momentum among them .

    They also lack vision and collective aspirations … they love to be handled by someone else , so they could place blame on Washington for all of their problems .

20. Yes!

21. Puerto Rico received from the US, 21 billion dollars a year and get in return from the GDP 105 billion dollars a year.

22. 50% of Puerto Ricans live in the USA today. It's a textbook colony. How could independence make things any worse? The population has fallen by like 20% since hurricane Maria.

23. Fear is how we control you. Good luck with whatever you choose, Puerto Rico.

24. Independence only pa Puerto Rico….you force us to join your evil USA and Isis will be the least of your problems.🖕🏻👉🏼🇺🇸

25. Puerto Rico would be better off if the United States would lift the sanctions. lol

26. An independent Puerto Rico might have qualified for foreign emergency aid. And might have fared better than as a territory.

27. Every state in the United States would be better off as a single state. Puerto Rico should be a thriving metropolis just off of the tourism industry. But all of that money is extracted back to the States.people need to wake up to what America has become this is not the land of apple pie and white picket fences anymore.

28. Austerity never ever works

29. Better times are ahead for Puerto Rico. With the Congress set to nationalize legal marijuana, the country can become a leader in marijuana production and benefit from the production of HEMPCRETE which allows the construction of hurricane-proof homes.

30. Puerto Rico pays $3 billion into the federal treasury to receive $20 billion in federal spending. That return on tax revenue is much better than any state in the US.
    An independent currency and monetary policy provides the ability to accelerate the rate of reduction of the purchasing power of money by reducing interest rates and permitting government deficit spending. Then the economy can be stimulated, but the cost of stimulus that people tend to forget about is the reduction of the purchasing power of money including especially wages and pensions. That's why stimulus lasts until wages catch up, and pensions might never catch up. Stimulus takes purchasing power away from savings, wage earners and pensioners in order to spend it or allow banks to loan it at a low interest rate. That's why stimulus can be very good for an economy or it can be ruinous.
    How can more awareness be raised about how destructive the Jones Act is for the economy of Puerto Rico?
    That seems like the easiest problem to fix. It is a very good time to talk about federal solutions because Puerto Rico will be an issue in the Democratic primary.

31. I'm waiting for the Juan Rosario interview, as well as any other person TRN spoke with at the GRID event. Thanks for this! #NoMasPROMESA

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