What are the economic conditions in Puerto Rico?
“Conditions in Puerto Rico are not good but they could get worse. We all speak English and Spanish. It is required but there isn’t enough work for all of the people that don’t have skills or higher education. We compete for jobs with illegal migrants from Haiti, Cuba, the Dominican Republic. Wages are low. They closed the biggest fish cannery in Puerto Rico (Bumble Bee) because they are going to move it to Asia. Wages are cheaper there than they are here. We don’t have any more work. Thank God we have the U.S. to provide us with some welfare and food stamps and now we have credit cards. We charged our cars, clothes and food against our credit cards. Some of our friends are now going to jail because they can’t pay the money back. We don’t know how we are going to pay it back. We are happy with the Commonwealth status but some of our people are very prideful of their culture. They would like to have their own country or be a state. Look at the rain forest and the country side. The last h
