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dixiegrrrrl

(60,010 posts)
2. Trump is from New York
Thu Oct 19, 2017, 10:13 PM
Oct 2017

where, when he was growing up, in the 50's, Puerto Ricans were discriminated against there.
and Trump has bragged that he has not changed in any significant way from when he was in 6th grade.

remember, Trump and his dad both were sued for racial discrimination in renting all those huge apts. they built.

When Lucille Ball married Desi, there was a lot of studio fears she would lose her career, people thought he was Puerto Rican or good as being one, Cuba was not seen as any different.

I agree with you, I am seeing Disaster Capitalism going on. Puerto Rico has a huge debt. That debt was packaged and sold as bonds, just like car debt and college debt and mortgage debt are.

meaning well heeled investors can demand their bond payments, or, if they can't get them, they can do what was done in Greece, and in Spain, which is force bankruptcy and sale of resources to pay a huge debt. Perfect time to do it, citizens there are helpless and barely surviving in lots of areas.

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