(07-24-2019, 07:46 AM)robkelk Wrote: Was it under Rossello's watch that Puerto Rico essentially went bankrupt, or did that happen before he became Governor?
The problems might be more than a simple change of leadership can fix.
The bankruptcy issue is deeper than that, with several administrations (since the 90’s) piling on debt to keep the illusion that everything was running hunky dory. So we know it will take time to solve, but by forcing a corrupt administration to resign we are, hopefully, sending a message that it won’t be business as usual anymore.
We just crossed the sea of reeds, now the wandering into the desert begins and hopefully it will forge us into better people.
If there is interest, I can try to give a summary of the economic issues facing the island, how they tie with our status as a territory, and how the U.S., sometimes by neglect, sometimes on purpose drove the situation to this point.
“We can never undo what we have done. We can never go back in time. We write history with our decisions and our actions. But we also write history with our responses to those actions. We can leave the pain and the damage in our wake, unattended, or we can do the work of acknowledging and fixing, to whatever extent possible, the harm that we have caused.”
— On Repentance and Repair: Making Amends in an Unapologetic World by Danya Ruttenberg
— On Repentance and Repair: Making Amends in an Unapologetic World by Danya Ruttenberg