Slight reminder to my non-Rican friends that the US leeches billions upon billions of dollars from us, we have no say in anything especially anymore with the “reform” that has taken away most of our rights, we pay same taxes as you people in outrageous numbers (right now at 11.5% on everything), AND have the most expensive import embargo that being the USA’s.
All of this is being ignored by the media and CNN, FOX and US media outlets keep pushing that WE’RE the ones leeching off of the mainland and it’ll cost YOU guys money to help us. This is bullshit. They’re killing us here and taking our rights away slowly. Please stop ignoring this.
Listen, I moved away from Puerto Rico because there was nothing there for me besides my amazing friends. And I hate telling people I’m from PR because of some deep seeded hatred of the people, the politicians, the culture, etc. etc. etc. But do I like seeing what used to be my home taken advantage of, and destroyed by big business and big banks? No. Shit like this has got to stop. The import embargo, and the Jones Act are fucking PR royally, besides the effect the “War on Drugs” has had on our citizens. This minimum wage would effectively throw the country into deeper debt, destroy its economy and serve literally no purpose other than to cause an even larger and even faster mass exodus of its people to the continental US and abroad.
Not to mention that Puerto Rico has the most Walmarts and Walgreens per square mile than any other country in the world. AND K-marts employs mostly people within the age this minimum page will affect.
In other words, this lowering the gap will only cause an increase in debts and only benefit foreign US retail stores that already suck us dry. (Which comes to no surprise) And let’s not forget that Wal-Mart sued the island because it didn’t want to pay as many taxes and WON.
Chiming in to say I’m in the same boat. Even in the country’s current state(paging somewhat above this proposed minimum wage) I could not find a job within one year of graduating from a bachelor’s degree. I spent a year looking for work on the island and found nothing, not even fast food restaurants wanted to hire me. Our generation is being slowly forced out of the island with this selfish legislation made so the US can keep profiting off the Puerto Rican people. Every year I hear about more and more friends who have to leave to find a better life, and most of them are young adults our age, with no established careers. Please spread this, please make others aware of the systematic abuses at work that keep my country and my people down.
The United States is an oppressive, colonial force willing to exploit a people so deeply mired in a land fraught with political corruption and economic disparity.
yo yo yo yo yo what the fuck
Minimum wage in Puerto Rico will be lowered to $4.25 per hour
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