If you rely on one news source that conforms to your ideology then it doesn't matter if you watch; Fox, Brietbart, CNN, MSNBC, or NPR. You will be in an echo chamber and are susceptible to fake news and lies.
TBH, not really. Just like I didn't think it concerning to hear a Kaspersky Labs ad on NPR. Just as I don't think it concerning that google linked to conspiracy theories.
Ads and conspiracy theories are just information, false or not, responsibility for acting on information is the individual. I, as a free individual, must decide for myself what is true. I also must allow others to do the same. This means that conspiracy theories will live for decades (Kennedy assassination) and some will be influenced by ads and campaign spending.
Foreign governments have been trying to influence our elections for a long time. There are two take points; 1) billions of dollars was spent on our elections 2) people are susceptible to ads. We have known about both issues for a long time and the solution is education and trusting that citizens can make decisions on their own self interest.
do merit investigation
An investigation is under way but that doesn't stop the media peddlers from spamming click-bait like this article to sow doubt,distrust, and profits.
Why should Americans care about what the world thinks of them? That perception wasn't going to change if Clinton had been elected just as it didn't change under Obama.
couldn't code their way out of a wet paper bag. To be fair, if I was in a wet paper bag I am not sure anything I code would help me out either. I would probably stop coding to get out of the bag and dry off before coding again. Obviously, I am not a rock-star programmer if I can't even code myself out of a wet paper bag!
if you can't understand why quoting the mismanagement of the government highlights examples of why the mess has been created by pr then your obviously just a troll. the link has things that congress has done as well.
Yes, there has been some Congressional failings but there were good decisions and bad decisions. PR being 100+ billion in debt is the fault of PR because it is their failed policies.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... the Department of Treasury of Puerto Rico is incapable of collecting 44% of the Puerto Rico Sales and Use Tax (or about $900 million), did not match what taxpayers reported to the department with the income reported by the taxpayer's employer through Form W-2s, and did not collect payments owed to the department by taxpayers that submitted tax returns without their corresponding payments. public teacher's base salary starts at $24,000 while a legislative advisor starts at $74,000. The government has also been unable to set up a system based on meritocracy, with many employees, particularly executives and administrators, simply lacking the competencies required to perform their jobs. There are 78 municipalities of Puerto Rico, which budget $2.2 billion a year, with mayors' salaries alone costing $4.8 million. Thirty-six of these have a budget deficit, putting 46% of the municipalities in financial stress. Just like the central government, the municipalities would issue debt through the Puerto Rico Municipal Financing Agency to stabilize its finances rather than make adjustments. The state monopoly provides free electricity to local governments, which prompted the Mayor of Aguadilla, Puerto Rico, to build an ice-skating rink. with FTI Consulting estimating that the utility had improperly given away $420 million of electricity and that the island's governments were $300 million delinquent in payments.
[tin foil hat] False flag operation by companies that want net neutrality. Knowing that the comments will be discovered as bots since it is not the first time this has happened so they can say; "look how evil [insert opposition] is. They are using bots to push their agenda! The People(tm) want net neutrality! Evil corporations hate NN. They are using bots to take away your internet! NN is the only answer.". [/tin foil hat]
I think your full of shit. PROMESA protects PR from lawsuits as it tries to fix the finances of the PR government and they are currently going through a de-facto default to restructure the debt. Their debt only happened because of decades of mismanagement of the PR government. Yes, there has been some Congressional failings but there were good decisions and bad decisions. PR being 100+ billion in debt is the fault of PR because it is their failed policies.
With a recalculation of poverty rate, yes it seems that Hawaii is pretty high (Hawaii's poverty rate of 17.4 percent is nearly 2 percentage points higher than the national average of 15.8 )http://hano-hawaii.org/newhano/index.php/news/237-hawaii-poverty-rate-recalculated-to-be-7th-highest-in-us
That is very different than Puerto Rico's 44.9%. What causes the cost of living in Hawaii to be so high, the huge tourism industry or the Jones Act?
I am not sure I understand. Two Island economies yet one needs special treatment. Why?
I see that you quoted a Wikipedia source but if you read the next paragraph that uses your source:"Although, in March 2013, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) released a study of the effect of the Jones Act on Puerto Rico that noted "[f]reight rates are set based on a host of supply and demand factors in the market, some of which are affected directly or indirectly by Jones Act requirements." The report further concludes, however, that "because so many other factors besides the Jones Act affect rates, it is difficult to isolate the exact extent to which freight rates between the United States and Puerto Rico are affected by the Jones Act"
So far, the more I read about Puerto Rico I see a couple of themes. 1) Puerto Rico is given special treatment sometimes good sometimes bad. 2) the government of Puerto Rico is garbage which compounds all its problems. I don't think the Jones Act is to blame as much as the crap government of Puerto Rico.
For example, the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority (PREPA) was a state monopoly providing free electricity to local governments which prompted the Mayor of Aguadilla to build an ice-skating rink. I wonder why PREPA has a $9 billion debt.
I am a little confused, at the 9 min mark he says: "unlike states Puerto Rico cannot authorize what's called chapter 9 bankruptcy."
Everything that I have seen currently shows that states cannot file for bankruptcy. Cities and municipalities can (Detroit) but not states, like Illinois. Congress could change that but that is very different then what Oliver is claiming.
From what I understand there was only one instance of a debt restructuring or default on state debt and that was Arkansas in 1933 authorized by the FDIC predecessor.
None of which has any legal impact on statehood or independence. It's all about Congressional action.
Yes, but nothing says "Please vote to accept us as a state" like a referendum with clear support of the people.
From your own link, they chose statehood 2 of the 3 recent times(61% in 2012, 97% in 2017), and in 1998, Statehood was in 46%, a solid second place behind None of the Above.
In 2017 there was a boycott which casts doubt on the results and in 2012 there was confusion over the questions. Which again, casts doubt on the results. That doesn't scream PR people wanting to be part of the US if there is so much doubt over the results.
Congress just made a choice, not to act on any of the votes
Yes, because there was doubt to the results and the PR government is on the brink of bankruptcy. Those two issues are completely in control of PR and her people.
can do anything when Congress fails
Voting tends to work.
where you totally fail to comprehend something
How have I failed in comprehension? Perhaps, original post badly worded but so far with the doubt in the results of the referendums PR has chosen the status quo. Congress refusing to act on that doubt and because bankruptcy is a real situation there is not really the fault of Congress.
My point is that the two major roadblocks of statehood for PR are entirely up to PR to fix. When those are resolved then congressional inaction can be addressed but they have good reason not to act.
I am using the Snowden leaks as a comparison to the Clinton leaks. "Sure, it was damaging but what was more damage: the fact that her private server was hacked or the contents of that private server?
Take a different example: which was more damaging; the fact that Snowden leaked NSA data or the data itself?"
I acknowledged the Russians and again " If anything, the Russians showed us what MSM wouldn't because of collusion between Clinton and the MSM."
'Clear' is the keyword. Many elections are suspect if the opposition steps out particularly when the result is so one sided (95%+) when that only happens in dictatorships, for the most part. It doesn't mean it is illegitimate or does not represent a voting majority. The issue is that there needs to be a clear decision that isn't muddied by boycotts or poor wording. A strong vote with a strong turnout is needed. Why this hasn't been achieved in PR, I don't know.
There are two things stopping PR statehood; PR bankruptcy/fiscal irresponsibility and a strong vote of yes with a strong turnout.
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If you rely on one news source that conforms to your ideology then it doesn't matter if you watch; Fox, Brietbart, CNN, MSNBC, or NPR. You will be in an echo chamber and are susceptible to fake news and lies.
As in, worth to go see or wait until Blade Runner 2364?
Why would our country turn into Somalia for valuing free speech?
As far as the courts are concerned it is a holy document.
don't you still think it's concerning?
TBH, not really. Just like I didn't think it concerning to hear a Kaspersky Labs ad on NPR. Just as I don't think it concerning that google linked to conspiracy theories.
Ads and conspiracy theories are just information, false or not, responsibility for acting on information is the individual. I, as a free individual, must decide for myself what is true. I also must allow others to do the same. This means that conspiracy theories will live for decades (Kennedy assassination) and some will be influenced by ads and campaign spending.
Foreign governments have been trying to influence our elections for a long time. There are two take points; 1) billions of dollars was spent on our elections 2) people are susceptible to ads. We have known about both issues for a long time and the solution is education and trusting that citizens can make decisions on their own self interest.
do merit investigation
An investigation is under way but that doesn't stop the media peddlers from spamming click-bait like this article to sow doubt,distrust, and profits.
Why should Americans care about what the world thinks of them? That perception wasn't going to change if Clinton had been elected just as it didn't change under Obama.
I would if I could use quote tags properly. :(
This wet paper bag will be the death of me!
couldn't code their way out of a wet paper bag.
To be fair, if I was in a wet paper bag I am not sure anything I code would help me out either. I would probably stop coding to get out of the bag and dry off before coding again. Obviously, I am not a rock-star programmer if I can't even code myself out of a wet paper bag!
The lovely sunsets!
I think you misspelled improperly given away $420 million in 2014. This has been going on since 1941.
Yes, using oil is a big problem too as well as being hostile to renewables.
I dream of floating Venetian electric sheep.
They were giving away free electricity which prompted a major to build a skating rink. tsk tsk indeed.
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/0...
if you can't understand why quoting the mismanagement of the government highlights examples of why the mess has been created by pr then your obviously just a troll. the link has things that congress has done as well.
Yes, there has been some Congressional failings but there were good decisions and bad decisions. PR being 100+ billion in debt is the fault of PR because it is their failed policies.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
the Department of Treasury of Puerto Rico is incapable of collecting 44% of the Puerto Rico Sales and Use Tax (or about $900 million), did not match what taxpayers reported to the department with the income reported by the taxpayer's employer through Form W-2s, and did not collect payments owed to the department by taxpayers that submitted tax returns without their corresponding payments.
public teacher's base salary starts at $24,000 while a legislative advisor starts at $74,000. The government has also been unable to set up a system based on meritocracy, with many employees, particularly executives and administrators, simply lacking the competencies required to perform their jobs.
There are 78 municipalities of Puerto Rico, which budget $2.2 billion a year, with mayors' salaries alone costing $4.8 million. Thirty-six of these have a budget deficit, putting 46% of the municipalities in financial stress.
Just like the central government, the municipalities would issue debt through the Puerto Rico Municipal Financing Agency to stabilize its finances rather than make adjustments.
The state monopoly provides free electricity to local governments, which prompted the Mayor of Aguadilla, Puerto Rico, to build an ice-skating rink.
with FTI Consulting estimating that the utility had improperly given away $420 million of electricity and that the island's governments were $300 million delinquent in payments.
Or third possibility
[tin foil hat]
False flag operation by companies that want net neutrality. Knowing that the comments will be discovered as bots since it is not the first time this has happened so they can say; "look how evil [insert opposition] is. They are using bots to push their agenda! The People(tm) want net neutrality! Evil corporations hate NN. They are using bots to take away your internet! NN is the only answer.".
[/tin foil hat]
Only if the font is Olde English! We should have standards!
I think your full of shit. PROMESA protects PR from lawsuits as it tries to fix the finances of the PR government and they are currently going through a de-facto default to restructure the debt. Their debt only happened because of decades of mismanagement of the PR government. Yes, there has been some Congressional failings but there were good decisions and bad decisions. PR being 100+ billion in debt is the fault of PR because it is their failed policies.
With a recalculation of poverty rate, yes it seems that Hawaii is pretty high (Hawaii's poverty rate of 17.4 percent is nearly 2 percentage points higher than the national average of 15.8 )http://hano-hawaii.org/newhano/index.php/news/237-hawaii-poverty-rate-recalculated-to-be-7th-highest-in-us
That is very different than Puerto Rico's 44.9%. What causes the cost of living in Hawaii to be so high, the huge tourism industry or the Jones Act?
I am not sure I understand. Two Island economies yet one needs special treatment. Why?
I see that you quoted a Wikipedia source but if you read the next paragraph that uses your source:"Although, in March 2013, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) released a study of the effect of the Jones Act on Puerto Rico that noted "[f]reight rates are set based on a host of supply and demand factors in the market, some of which are affected directly or indirectly by Jones Act requirements." The report further concludes, however, that "because so many other factors besides the Jones Act affect rates, it is difficult to isolate the exact extent to which freight rates between the United States and Puerto Rico are affected by the Jones Act"
So far, the more I read about Puerto Rico I see a couple of themes. 1) Puerto Rico is given special treatment sometimes good sometimes bad. 2) the government of Puerto Rico is garbage which compounds all its problems. I don't think the Jones Act is to blame as much as the crap government of Puerto Rico.
For example, the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority (PREPA) was a state monopoly providing free electricity to local governments which prompted the Mayor of Aguadilla to build an ice-skating rink. I wonder why PREPA has a $9 billion debt.
I am a little confused, at the 9 min mark he says: "unlike states Puerto Rico cannot authorize what's called chapter 9 bankruptcy."
Everything that I have seen currently shows that states cannot file for bankruptcy. Cities and municipalities can (Detroit) but not states, like Illinois. Congress could change that but that is very different then what Oliver is claiming.
From what I understand there was only one instance of a debt restructuring or default on state debt and that was Arkansas in 1933 authorized by the FDIC predecessor.
None of which has any legal impact on statehood or independence. It's all about Congressional action.
Yes, but nothing says "Please vote to accept us as a state" like a referendum with clear support of the people.
From your own link, they chose statehood 2 of the 3 recent times(61% in 2012, 97% in 2017), and in 1998, Statehood was in 46%, a solid second place behind None of the Above.
In 2017 there was a boycott which casts doubt on the results and in 2012 there was confusion over the questions. Which again, casts doubt on the results. That doesn't scream PR people wanting to be part of the US if there is so much doubt over the results.
Congress just made a choice, not to act on any of the votes
Yes, because there was doubt to the results and the PR government is on the brink of bankruptcy. Those two issues are completely in control of PR and her people.
can do anything when Congress fails
Voting tends to work.
where you totally fail to comprehend something
How have I failed in comprehension? Perhaps, original post badly worded but so far with the doubt in the results of the referendums PR has chosen the status quo. Congress refusing to act on that doubt and because bankruptcy is a real situation there is not really the fault of Congress.
My point is that the two major roadblocks of statehood for PR are entirely up to PR to fix. When those are resolved then congressional inaction can be addressed but they have good reason not to act.
It's for the blind when the translate it into braille.
They have democracy. Now what?
I am using the Snowden leaks as a comparison to the Clinton leaks. "Sure, it was damaging but what was more damage: the fact that her private server was hacked or the contents of that private server?
Take a different example: which was more damaging; the fact that Snowden leaked NSA data or the data itself?"
I acknowledged the Russians and again " If anything, the Russians showed us what MSM wouldn't because of collusion between Clinton and the MSM."
Hawaii falls under the Jones act, how are they negatively impacted by it?
'Clear' is the keyword. Many elections are suspect if the opposition steps out particularly when the result is so one sided (95%+) when that only happens in dictatorships, for the most part. It doesn't mean it is illegitimate or does not represent a voting majority. The issue is that there needs to be a clear decision that isn't muddied by boycotts or poor wording. A strong vote with a strong turnout is needed. Why this hasn't been achieved in PR, I don't know.
There are two things stopping PR statehood; PR bankruptcy/fiscal irresponsibility and a strong vote of yes with a strong turnout.