Trump just said that PR owed 9 billion? WTF one cancellation of a big bomber or battle ship would

[coolsandy]

pay that off.

[MontanaMama]

1. Puerto Rico's actual debt is nowhere

near that. We can blame wall street vulture capitalists for blowing up any debt they had. AND, Texas and Florida are part of the US and nobody is denying them help because our nation is in debt. This is sick and wrong.

[lame54]

2. He just took 7 billion from the ACA

[Wellstone ruled]

3. Trump is protecting

a couple of Hedge Fund Mega Billionaires,who bought PR's debt bonds at 20 cents on the dollar. One being John Paulsen of the Housing Bond Theft.

Most Corrupt Government money can buy.

[doc03]

4. How can the so-called president of a country that owes $20 trillion lecture

another that owes just $ 9 billion?

[DesertRat]

8. Puerto Rico is this country

And trump is their president.

[doc03]

10. Puerto Rico has a debt don't they? The a--hole in office and Republicans

blame them for their wasteful spending. What about the United States debt it is thousands of times
what Puerto Rico's is.

[OldHippieChick]

9. I'm confused.

Another "country"? Another "president"? Another what?

[doc03]

11. Ok the territory of Peurto Rico has a $9 billion debt but if you compare that to

the US debt of $20 trillion it is insignificant. I would say we could absorb that debt and forgo the damn
tax cut for the rich instead of lecturing them on their debt.

[onethatcares]

5. what can we do?

call our congress critters? vote on es&s machines? maybe march in the streets?

For some reason, I don't think the powers that be give a shit.

[snooper2]

6. It is actually 70 Billion with another 50 Billion in pension obligations

But Stupid#1 wouldn't know that

[gvstn]

7. I always think this way.

Before the post-Bush era of perpetual war we still managed to start a war every 10 years whether we needed it or not.
the idea being to use up some of our stockpiled weapons so we could buy new ones from the military-industrial-complex.

We could easily take care of our troops, maintain readiness and design new weapons with a much smaller military budget if we didn't always start a war and deplete our weapons and hardware when the world began feeling too peaceful for those in power.

[Bengus81]

12. Boy...glad we here in the US are debt FREE.........

Is that ass hat serious? We're TWENTY TRILLION in debt up HERE. A HELL of a lot of it from FAT tax cuts to the rich since the 80's and Republican FAILED trickle down economy killers since well...the 80's.

It's estimated his Tinkle down if passed will run up a tab of another $2-$4 TRILLION. Does that dick understand the diff between billion and trillion??