Once a week someone in the news will do something so stupid, ignorant and just plain bruto. To this individual I introduce The Brutosaurio award of the week.
I would like to give the Brutosaurio award of the week to US Representative Ginny Brown-Waite.
Last week, in the floor of the House of Representatives Ms. Ginny Brown-Waite was doing her job. She was representing her constituents on the issue of the tax rebates that would be offered to US tax payers. Maybe it was the emotion, maybe the neurons in one of the hemispheres of her brain that control memory and cognition did not fire right, or maybe it was just plain ignorance. Ms. Brown uttered that foreign citizens in Puerto Rico or Guam, who do not pay US federal taxes should not get this aid.
…and I understand her concern. Those brown people who do not contribute should not be getting a benefit intended for hard working mainland citizens.
The problem started when she forgot that “those people” are citizens just like her and therefore entitled to those same benefits. Ms. Ginny Brown-Waite is our Brutosauria of the week!
Her comments are as crazy as saying that Hawaiians and Alaskans are not US citizens because they are foreign citizens. They are sort of brownish and their lands are not in the USA. Damn foreigners!
But here is something to think about: The economic situation in Puerto Rico is in a full recession with a recovery economic outlook of 3 to 4 years, and that is if everything goes bien. People are digging and stealing copper wire out of lamp posts to make money! But, don’t take my word for it that things in PR are bad. The suicide rate in the island as of now is that of 40. That is almost one per day since the beginning of the year. All of them stress-economy related.
I would like to give the Brutosaurio award of the week to US Representative Ginny Brown-Waite.
Last week, in the floor of the House of Representatives Ms. Ginny Brown-Waite was doing her job. She was representing her constituents on the issue of the tax rebates that would be offered to US tax payers. Maybe it was the emotion, maybe the neurons in one of the hemispheres of her brain that control memory and cognition did not fire right, or maybe it was just plain ignorance. Ms. Brown uttered that foreign citizens in Puerto Rico or Guam, who do not pay US federal taxes should not get this aid.
…and I understand her concern. Those brown people who do not contribute should not be getting a benefit intended for hard working mainland citizens.
The problem started when she forgot that “those people” are citizens just like her and therefore entitled to those same benefits. Ms. Ginny Brown-Waite is our Brutosauria of the week!
Her comments are as crazy as saying that Hawaiians and Alaskans are not US citizens because they are foreign citizens. They are sort of brownish and their lands are not in the USA. Damn foreigners!
But here is something to think about: The economic situation in Puerto Rico is in a full recession with a recovery economic outlook of 3 to 4 years, and that is if everything goes bien. People are digging and stealing copper wire out of lamp posts to make money! But, don’t take my word for it that things in PR are bad. The suicide rate in the island as of now is that of 40. That is almost one per day since the beginning of the year. All of them stress-economy related.
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