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[anti-capitalistlesbianwitch]

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[mymodernmet]

Celebrities Are Sharing Their Awkward Teen Photos for a Good Cause

[tatlmaslany]

tatianamaslany: So late to the #puberme party, which is not puberlikeme at all. Usually I was the first to arrive and hung out with the parents upstairs. #puertoricorelief

[nickkroll]

#Repost @johnmulaney ・・・ ‪Here ya go @nickkroll. Age 14. Homecoming Dance. Why did the photographer allow this? #puberme #puertoricorelief #bigmouth‬

[whatshouldinameit-blog1]

We Are Americans!

FOR MY MANY AND DEAR AMERICAN FAMILY AND FRIENDS, SOMETHING SOMEONE WROTE THAT I FEEL YOU SHOULD READ TO UNDERSTAND PUERTO RICO.

"I would like to clear a few things in relation to my Island of Puerto Rico!! There is a huge misconception that Puerto Rico is being maintained by the USA!

1) USA sends Puerto Rico $4.6 billion a year. For welfare, Pell Grant, roads, etc. This supports 42% of the population. This amount is not enough to support this population.

2) They send $13 billion a year for social security, but this is not unilateral! This is money that is retained from our paychecks!! Yet the USA reports this as help and money they send.

3) Puerto Rico buys from the US $22.6 Billion a year in goods; Making PR a huge customer for the USA, one of its top markets in the world. A captive market.

4) The Jones Act is 100 years old! We do not have the freedom to choose who ships to Puerto Rico! We have to ship EVERYTHING in US Flag ships, which happen to be the most expensive in the world! This act was implanted with logic, to patrol the seas! But today it’s just an abuse and Puerto Ricans suffer by it adding huge costs to our products. We spend $1.5 billion a year on this added cost. We are 90% of the business of US ships!!! 80% OF OUR foood is imported, making it twice as expensive as in the US.

5) Out of the business done in Puerto Rico, 70 cents of every dollar ($34 billion a year) leave the island to the bank accounts of US businesses. Mainland chains have wiped out local businesses (pharmacies,hardware, department stores, etc). No other territory in the world permits that much money to leave, leaving behind the scraps for its own sustenance.

6) Summarizing: USA to PR $4.7 Billion and PR to USA $72 Billion. 🤔 You do the math.

7) So, when Puerto Rico gets hit by a Hurricane and needs help, USA should send the help. They cannot act as they are doing us a favor, but in reality, it is in their best interest. If you have a gold mine that produces $72 billion dollars a year and it gets hit by a hurricane, you need to get that gold mine up and running again!!

😎 So when Donald Trump states that we "are throwing his budget out of whack!!" It should be because this year that 72 billion will be short! He doesn't know what he's talking about.

As for our $72 Billion-dollar debt:

1) This debt starts with the removal of Section 936 of the US tax code that granted tax exemptions to US Companies to keep these companies from leaving USA to a foreign land and keeping them in US Territory!!

2) Puerto Rico flourished for 25 years, and then the law was taken away way before it expired!! Someone said, "It's Corporate Welfare" and boom, in 10 years the pride of our economy, the pharmaceutical, biochemical and electronic industries collapsed.

3) Unemployment rose; professional jobs were substituted by menial service jobs in US stores. Professional class migration soared. Puerto Rico started borrowing to balance its budget.

4) Puerto Rico has borrowed something near 72 billion!! But interest and foul play by Brokers in the US have raised the debt to a unpayable figure.

5) Brokers selling stocks to subsidiaries ( something illegal in the USA) but since it's Puerto Rico, it is allowed!!!

6) Vulture funds now bought the debt at pennies to the dollar and now they want the dollar!!! They are Not even willing to negotiate even though they would make huge profits if they cut the debt in half!!

7) They want to cut funds for our kids education, utilities and food!!

😎 Donald Trump should not be the person telling Puerto Rico to pay our debt!! Have him pay the $32 million he took from Puerto Rico taxpayers to build a golf course, bankrupt it and leave the taxpayers paying the $32 million!!!

9) Puerto Rican politicians are also to blame! The island was preyed upon by a corrupt system that created more millionaires than we'd ever seen before.political cronies were brazenly rewarded with millionaire contracts, without compliance requirements or enforcement.

Puerto Ricans are US Citizens!! That have contributed to the USA for close to 100 years. Citizenship came with the price tag of obligatory military service in 1917, right on time for World War I.

1) They have served in every war for the USA since then. Proportionally, more Puerto Ricans died in Vietnam than any other state of the union. And for what?

2) The 65th Infantry is the all Puerto Rican regiment that was recently honored by Congress for its valor and loyalty.

3) The 65th were the first to fire against Japan in World war II. Why? Because they where always the first ones to be sent in. The Torres’s, the Rodriguez’s, Morales, etc. first guys in, clearing the path for the Smith’s, Johnson’s and Captain America. We call them "carne de cañón," cannon fodder.

4) USA will not grant Puerto Rico statehood!!! We fall under the territorial clause that makes us "belonging to but not a part of." A piece of property with unwanted people in it.Too many business interests would lose money if we were a state! Puerto Rico would have a huge voice in congress and Presidential vote! Not everybody wants that. They prefer that we remain an exploited colony, against international law.

Puerto Rico contributes greatly to the USA every day, both economically and from a human point of view. we have astronauts, engineers, scientists, researchers, musicians, artists, and many other professionals that all contribute to the common good of the USA.

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[jamesadomian]

Spent two days loading, driving and unloading a truck full of mostly diapers for @voicesforpuertorico. Happy to be a small part of the recovery from #HurricaneTrump! #PuertoRicoRelief #puertorico #voicesforpuertorico

[billyeichner]

The great @nickkroll has asked everyone to post awkward puberty pics to help spread the word about donating $$$ to Puerto Rico. This is a prop photo from Difficult People of me and Fred Armisen (@sordociego) but the pics are real! #PuberMe #PuertoRicoRelief

[rhettaday]