"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." ~ H.L. Mencken
1/3 Population of Puerto Rico Gets Food Stamps from U.S. Gov’t -- $2 Billion in 2012
"The federal government spent more than $2 billion to provide food stamps to Puerto Rico in 2012, up to 25 percent of which is untraceable because it is distributed in cash and there is 'no way to verify that funds are spent on food,' according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). The funds are used to supply more than one-third of the population of Puerto Rico with food stamps."
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It was at least this bad way back in 1990, when I lived there. The USG has long since "paid off" the population there in exchange for maintaining it as a colony for political purposes. And the people go along, grudgingly, for the "free ride." A tenuous arrangement since 1898, made slightly less tenuous in 1954.