Someone forgot to tell Puerto Rico the wise adage: “If you don’t have the cash, then don’t buy it!” The island territory has a debt of $70 billion dollars, is at risk to default come January, 2016, on $900 million and decided to “charge” Christmas bonuses for government employees, to the tune of $120 million.
Someone needs to cut off the allowance, take away the credit cards and require a Dave Ramsey course for imprudent squandering territory.
One-hundred-thirty-six years ago, Puerto Rico enacted a law that requires Christmas bonuses to be paid to government workers. No thought was apparently given to the economic ups and downs that would absolutely occur in this territory. No one took into account that perhaps a LAW was too binding and therefore should not create a promise that was not good for the country and would never be revoked.
But in 1969, Puerto Rico must have been feeling generous when they included mandatory Christmas bonuses. In 2015, Puerto Rico is standing with its tin cup, at the White House door, begging alms for the poor.
On the next page, read how we are enabling Puerto Rico, instead of cutting off the slush fund.
But no raise for our Seniors
This is why the white house needs cleaned up
We really need to clean house and start over with people for the people! Trump will be a good start…I hope he gets all the corrupt out of our so called leaders…they are nothing with out the American Workers who got no bonus and struggle to survive and give there children a good Christmas!
We need Government that is trust worthy
#presents
So they’re buying everybody off in government really there’s people out here on the Social Security is not getting a bonus there’s people working in company does not getting their race why in the hell is people in government getting a raise when no one else in America is getting a raise they are being bought off mark my words
Must be nice !
And I didn’t even get a thank you from any of them! Our tax dollars at work.
No cola for 2016 social security!
After they sold us out and Allah is being worshipped in the white house and goverment ! They deny Christ and christains and want a bonus for the very season they deny and allow society to ban… disgusting just sickens me !