Poll: If you could have Hillary Or Bernie for President, who would you pick?? (Now 89% - 11%)

[azmom]

70. Yeah, about Puerto Rico

Still, you can’t be a serious candidate for the presidency of the United States and not know what democracy is or that Puerto Rico doesn’t have it. Hillary’s half-hearted sympathy proves an even bigger point: it isn’t that North American leaders have been unaware of how much Puerto Rico has been getting screwed over the past century; it’s that they simply want it that way.

Hillary dangled the carrot of debt relief and potential statehood during her visit to the island only to garner support from mainland Puerto Ricans who can actually get her elected. She’s expecting few of them will realize that her campaign is largely funded by the same Wall Street bankers who stand to lose the most should Puerto Rico seek bankruptcy protection.

While Hillary was glad-handing in Puerto Rico yesterday, Alice Ollstein at Think Progress published an analysis of campaign financing documents which shows that Hillary and GOP candidate Jeb Bush have “have both benefited from honorarium fees, donations to their super PACs, and contributions to their campaigns from the executives of Puerto Rico’s hedge funds creditors — investment funds which contributed to and are profiting from the island’s financial crisis and inability to declare bankruptcy.”
http://www.latinorebels.com/2015/09/05/mrs-clinton-goes-to-san-juan/