House, do you think I will listen to you? The guy that thinks Puerto Rico is the best off of all of the Latin American nations? There are islands in the Caribbean like Barbados and others who have a higher per capita income than the Puerto Ricans do. Yet, you continue to believe a bunch of shit that isn't true. So, why so many Chavez supporters from Venezuela if the people are starving?
This is from a PIP website
http://www.independencia.net/ingles/ai_economy.html..... ALL THESE NATIONS have a higher per capita income than Puerto Rico does. Venezuela included. From 1995 figures. So I doubt your bullshit claim that Puerto Rico is the nation with the highest per capita income. The economy is artificially bolstered by tax dollars from the mainland USA federal funds transfers....but it is not growing the economy. All that bullshit beaurocracy involved in getting federal approval before doing much and not being able to negotiate without prior approval from D.C. where PR does not have voting rights is SUCKING in a big way.
This is a table with PER CAPITA income from 1970, 1980 1995 ONLY...and this is what they said about what happened to Puerto Rico in that time frame....
Argentina 2,766,889 33,533 3,533 3,996 8,498
Barbados 430 259 4,252 5,453 11,306
Chile 756,945 14,065 1,397 1,580 9,930
Cyprus 9,252 726 *** 4,164 13,316
South Korea 98,484 44,500 967 1,953 11,594
Ireland 70,284 3,710 5,656 7,791 17,590
Malta 320 368 760 3,713 13,316
St. Kitts/Nevis 261 40 *** 1,767 10,150
Singapur 618 3,300 950 5,907 22,604
Trinidad/Tobago 300 1,300 3,185 5,218 9,437
Venezuela 912,050 22,000 3,298 3,067 8,090
PUERTO RICO 9,000 3,719 3,900 5,362
7,685 House, it aint looking good for Puerto Rico.
This is the quote before the table shows up from that above website:
Various countries of similar size or smaller than Puerto Rico population wise, which some decades ago were poorer than Puerto Rico, currently have a greater income per capita than our country. Countries such as Bahamas, Cyprus, Malta and Singapur, which have a smaller territorial area than Puerto Rico, after achieving independence were able surpass Puerto Rico’s per capita income. The colonialism scene is STIFLING us as a nation. Get with the right wing independence party scene House...because it sucks keeping the dead cadaver of ELA alive!
If people are worse off than before Chavez they would not be supporting Chavez. But they do? Why? Because he is spending some of the oil revenue on the people. Is there enough? No. Lifting people out of poverty is complex. And it takes a lot. But if you have a rich upper crust and a middle class fighting all the way because they don't want to lose their socioeconomic positions. You got problems. That is the way it works. There is a lot of crap....and it seems like you believe all the crap about how wonderful it is to have and live in a society in which a small group of plutocrats run the show and everyone else has nothing as usual. There is a problem with that House. Social unrest is one of them.
People who don't like Chavez either associate him with a totalitarian dictator...and they usually are not POOR people from the nation they criticize. And second, or they are from the middle class, business owners and the minority of people who are well off in Venezuela. Who don't want a leader who might jeopardize their socioeconomic positions. Then you have the foreign media who wants leaders in Latin America to be some type of maniputable liberal or conservative. But, Latin America is going LEFT in a big way. With Lula in Brazil. Evo Morales, Michelle Bachelet in Chile, Chavez in Venezuela, and others....there is a big damn wave of LEFTIES going on in South America and the Gringos are on the defensive. Why? Because they put so much time and energy and effort and MONEY into the Middle Eastern crisis that they lost some control in South America. The only place they are trying to keep under tight control is Colombia and other drug zones and even those they can't control completely. Thank goodness. The USA needs to stop trying to see Latin America as their personal backyard and playground and stop pouring money into right wing horrifically bad governments and deal with sane, logical issues that are beneficial to ALL parties involved. But, the USA gov't has to learn the HARD WAY.