I lived in PR for a year, and have fond memories of that island. But it has been marred, physically and psychologically by being tethered to the US. I look forward to the day, if ever it comes, when PR, along with many other poorer and less powerful nations, can forever free themselves from US domination and exploitation.
Bienvenidos Prof. Seda- Irizarry! I was a student at the Interamericana in 1969 where I met the son of an independentista, colleague of Albizu Campos. It was an education in US hegemony, and the electoral fight in PR continues. From tRump throwing paper towels at the people, to the PR bond grab by Wall St. (that was never contested,) I am still hopeful that the people and the legal system will support the freedom and stabilization of Puerto Rican society. Thank you for this update and the focus on La Isla del Encanto. I love Puerto Rico and hope that its infrastructure can be improved by US entities, that it's natural beauty draws investments, and that the govt is able to rebuild with private or public funding. The tax shelter option is acceptable for the interim (like Ireland et al.) because everything is in flux at this moment....
We have great hopes of winning with the Alianza, a coalition of all the disaffected voters of the two major parties: the PPD and the PNPs.. Let's hope for that. Many young people registered to vote en masse .. and PRicans from the diaspora have returned to the island and will vote in Puerto Rico.
I went to 4 different private elementary & Catholic High schools. They were all hotbeds of Social Darwinist, elitist, eugenicist, snobbish & white supremacist ideologies.
as early as 1912, President William Howard Taft had already said that there was no connection between the extension of US citizenship to Puerto Ricans and statehood.
@@Papawcanner That is so sad. Do you know if it used to be different? Perhaps they’ve been hidden away, you need to know the right librarian and be prepared to take an oath of secrecy.
The Puerto Ricans have been migrating the archipelago since the 20s, usually provoked by needs of the US for cheap labor, to work on the agricultural fields..Some sociologists and politicians justified iat the time claiming there were too many people on the island and not enough opportunities..Later came the 'industrialization by invitation' .. that created an even more dependent economy ..by design..Nowadays there are more PRicans living abroad than 8n Puerto Rico s8nce 2004, according g to some researchers. . The colonial status is a major hindrance.
Statehood is never going to happen, and it never should. There's way too many obstacles blocking it from happening that it's nearly impossible. And if somehow by magic the island was made into a state, it would be detrimental to both the US and Puerto Rico financially, politically, and culturally. Independence is the only way out of this limbo status we are in now, sure it might not be perfect, but it can open us up to a world of possibilities.
@playpaltalk Are you Puerto Rican? Because if you've actually been to the island and not stayed in only in San Juan, you'd see that DR and PR are both pretty similar. You people have this world view that statehood is going to make Puerto Rico into the Dubai of the Caribbean and that Independence is going to turn the island into a third world isolationist communist dictatorship. Us Pro independence supporters don't see it that way, we just want Puerto Rico to not be to involved in the world affairs and just be a regular neutral quaint latin nation like Panama, Costa Rica, Colombia, and the DR.
@@jlm3744 The level of poverty out side San Juan and out side of Santo Domingo are not similar at all and that's why Dominican living in Puerto Rico are feeling like they are living in Dubai 🇵🇷🇺🇸
@@playpaltalk What are you talking about, that's not true at all. You're making it out like all over DR and PR outside of the capital cities it's all its all third world shanty towns. And I told you, I've been to them both, they are similar, they aren't wealthy, but they are impoverished either. And when I said Dubai, I was saying that's how statehooders think Puerto Rico will be like under statehood. Dominicans don't come to Puerto Rico thinking it's like a Dubai. Plus, I highly doubt anyone feels like Puerto Rico is like Dubai right now, most people I talk to now say that San Juan is more like Miami now with all the tourist taking over.
I hope Professor Wolff will one day offer his views on the merits of modern monetary theory. It makes perfect sense to me that central banks should not have the money creation power; this should be held by the Treasury, able to issue debt-free money channeled to government agencies and to individuals eligible for income supplements under law.
"Hold two fundraisers in Puerto Rico, one with the Independence movement and the other with the Statehood movement: they never talk to each other." Lindsey Graham.
6:35 The latest Malcolm Gladwell addresses this in his latest book, 'Revenge of the Tipping Point: Overstories, Superspreaders, and the Rise of Social Engineering' - Oct. 1 2024
@@nydiacabrera1187 Because the United States is run by a criminal organization that have learned how to counterfeit money. They operate from behind the scenes. They send the CIA to control the elections. Puerto Rico will never, ever have freedom so long as this banking cartel run the show. You see the war in Ukraine? Do you read about WW2? If Hitler could not do it, how do you expect Puerto Ricans to extricate themselves from the phony money? You have the whole of the BRICS nation and they cannot do it. This means that they will go to Puerto Rico, buy up all the television channels, newspapers, colleges and Universities and setup two political camps both controlled by them.
Prof. Wolff, shut up about Trump. Focus on the last 4 years of the Biden/Harris administration in their times of austerity & how it has broken our economy. I'm a poor Mexican American woman & I urge you to visit my neighborhood in Chicago & dwell in its poverty. In all my life in this country I have never seen such poverty everywhere, especially during the last 4 years.
Not for you to decide or the US in that matter. Huge debt has been pushed off on that island because of the capitalists going there for cheap labor and to use a a tax heaven. The people suffer and you have millionaires and billionaires going there to not pay taxes. It is dispicable. They can't even trade with anyone else because they are a US Common Wealth. And that is a problem in itself, and the people will not stand for it.
You know there's 195 nations in the world. You statehooders keep bringing up Cuba, Venezuela and Haiti over and over again like a hive mind. Independence is the only way out of this limbo status we are in now. Statehood is near to impossible to happen, there are so many obstacles keeping it from happening.
Narrow minded people always use the same mantra: “Look at Cuba, Venezuela or Haiti.” Shame on their intellect. Look at Mexico, Costa Rica or Chile, etc.
Free Puerto Rico
Thank you both! Puerto Rico - good luck with your endeavors in these crises.
Professor Richard ❤
Come together, absolutely 💯
Wolff is great. As a farm kid from Wisconsin I love his views.
He's taught us so much over the years. We monetarily support Democracy at Work - his enterprise.
Go pack go!
I lived in PR for a year, and have fond memories of that island. But it has been marred, physically and psychologically by being tethered to the US. I look forward to the day, if ever it comes, when PR, along with many other poorer and less powerful nations, can forever free themselves from US domination and exploitation.
Thank you for these words🇵🇷
Thank you, professor, as always.
Thank you Professor Richard Wolff, you are doing a noble work. Please enlighten us with your valuable knowledge and experience.
Thank you Professor Wolff + team! Your videos mean a lot to me.
Bienvenidos Prof. Seda- Irizarry! I was a student at the Interamericana in 1969 where I met the son of an independentista, colleague of Albizu Campos. It was an education in US hegemony, and the electoral fight in PR continues. From tRump throwing paper towels at the people, to the PR bond grab by Wall St. (that was never contested,) I am still hopeful that the people and the legal system will support the freedom and stabilization of Puerto Rican society. Thank you for this update and the focus on La Isla del Encanto. I love Puerto Rico and hope that its infrastructure can be improved by US entities, that it's natural beauty draws investments, and that the govt is able to rebuild with private or public funding. The tax shelter option is acceptable for the interim (like Ireland et al.) because everything is in flux at this moment....
Thanks so much Richard. Your programs are always very informative. Keep up the good work!
We have great hopes of winning with the Alianza, a coalition of all the disaffected voters of the two major parties: the PPD and the PNPs.. Let's hope for that. Many young people registered to vote en masse .. and PRicans from the diaspora have returned to the island and will vote in Puerto Rico.
Mr Wolff has it together and pulls no punches and tells it like it is.
PR needs to be its own country.
They shouldn’t be shackled to the myriad of problems the US has.
Thank you. Great interview.❤
Best wishes from Manchester Old England great show everybody keep up the good work ❤️😎 Cheers
Excellent conversation
I’ve seen nasty legacy favoritism even at private high schools!
I went to 4 different private elementary & Catholic High schools.
They were all hotbeds of Social Darwinist, elitist, eugenicist, snobbish & white supremacist ideologies.
The Empire is in decadence and Puerto Ricans should join the world, leaving the Empire alone. Viva Puerto Rico libre!!!
as early as 1912, President William Howard Taft had already said that there was no connection between the extension of US citizenship to Puerto Ricans and statehood.
Thank you Ian, you are an exceptional human being. We must abandoned the democratic party.
Thanks, Professor Wolff! Small town America is still suffering under austerity for the people who who an tolerate it least.
My county library declined my request to purchase your new book. I could hardly believe it. Your books are excellent.
Because your library knows Wolff is peddling propaganda.
There are no “left” books in our Tennessee library . None
@@Papawcanner That is so sad. Do you know if it used to be different? Perhaps they’ve been hidden away, you need to know the right librarian and be prepared to take an oath of secrecy.
I make my students listen to Wolff's videos. I teach labor economics and HRD
More evidence the west is doomed.
The Puerto Ricans have been migrating the archipelago since the 20s, usually provoked by needs of the US for cheap labor, to work on the agricultural fields..Some sociologists and politicians justified iat the time claiming there were too many people on the island and not enough opportunities..Later came the 'industrialization by invitation' .. that created an even more dependent economy ..by design..Nowadays there are more PRicans living abroad than 8n Puerto Rico s8nce 2004, according g to some researchers. . The colonial status is a major hindrance.
.. Is not how you end sentences
@@aluisious, I know it..but I like it ..
Viva PR. ❤ 🎉❤
Thanks!
Thank you for this education on austerity and Argentina! Sounds just like the U.S.!
Statehood is never going to happen, and it never should. There's way too many obstacles blocking it from happening that it's nearly impossible. And if somehow by magic the island was made into a state, it would be detrimental to both the US and Puerto Rico financially, politically, and culturally. Independence is the only way out of this limbo status we are in now, sure it might not be perfect, but it can open us up to a world of possibilities.
@@jlm3744 independence for Puerto Rico would be like going back and living life like the FREE people of the Dominican Republic.
@playpaltalk Are you Puerto Rican? Because if you've actually been to the island and not stayed in only in San Juan, you'd see that DR and PR are both pretty similar. You people have this world view that statehood is going to make Puerto Rico into the Dubai of the Caribbean and that Independence is going to turn the island into a third world isolationist communist dictatorship. Us Pro independence supporters don't see it that way, we just want Puerto Rico to not be to involved in the world affairs and just be a regular neutral quaint latin nation like Panama, Costa Rica, Colombia, and the DR.
@@jlm3744 The level of poverty out side San Juan and out side of Santo Domingo are not similar at all and that's why Dominican living in Puerto Rico are feeling like they are living in Dubai 🇵🇷🇺🇸
@@playpaltalk What are you talking about, that's not true at all. You're making it out like all over DR and PR outside of the capital cities it's all its all third world shanty towns. And I told you, I've been to them both, they are similar, they aren't wealthy, but they are impoverished either. And when I said Dubai, I was saying that's how statehooders think Puerto Rico will be like under statehood. Dominicans don't come to Puerto Rico thinking it's like a Dubai. Plus, I highly doubt anyone feels like Puerto Rico is like Dubai right now, most people I talk to now say that San Juan is more like Miami now with all the tourist taking over.
ALL the Puerto Rican’s moved to NYC .
The Puerto Rico people are tired of the corruption, and the laziness of our ruling class.
I hope Professor Wolff will one day offer his views on the merits of modern monetary theory. It makes perfect sense to me that central banks should not have the money creation power; this should be held by the Treasury, able to issue debt-free money channeled to government agencies and to individuals eligible for income supplements under law.
Thank you ❤
The same thing that is happening to Puerto Rico is also happening in the U.S. Virging Islands (a colony) just 40 miles to the east.
EXCELLENT. HIGH TIME
"Hold two fundraisers in Puerto Rico, one with the Independence movement and the other with the Statehood movement: they never talk to each other." Lindsey Graham.
With the US national debt at 35+ trillion, Amerikans can look forward to their own austerity.
The debt is owned primarily by rich Americans. They’ll use it as an exercise to steal more real assets.
Sounds like it’s there already for many , but not called that by the guvs
😂 15:02 im as mad as hell and im not going to take it anymore. I want you to open your windows
Thanks
Like always magnificent
6:35 The latest Malcolm Gladwell addresses this in his latest book, 'Revenge of the Tipping Point: Overstories, Superspreaders, and the Rise of Social Engineering' - Oct. 1 2024
PR should join BRI now and BRICS eventually.
Is there a kindle version of the book?
Obviously, the United States doesn’t give two shits about Puerto Rico, except for the Tax Haven
As a Catholic Dr Wolff I would love to read this bible you mentioned as it sounds highly amusing 😂😂
I have never met anyone that has read “the Bible” just liars.
@@Papawcanner Read it on my own, no. Was taught it in depth over 4 hours a week for 14 years, yes. Italian Catholic, comes with the schooling.
Can prof.wolff update us more about the autogestion worker coop movement in argentina?
Left is a joke after 90s
Define left
@@Papawcanner It's nothing much to be defined basically so called communists
🤔👍🏽💯
He tried to change wit sawchain
Wasn’t the same with Venezuela
Claiming to free Puerto Rico is useless
I do not see why..Could u explain..?
@@nydiacabrera1187 Because the United States is run by a criminal organization that have learned how to counterfeit money. They operate from behind the scenes. They send the CIA to control the elections. Puerto Rico will never, ever have freedom so long as this banking cartel run the show. You see the war in Ukraine? Do you read about WW2? If Hitler could not do it, how do you expect Puerto Ricans to extricate themselves from the phony money? You have the whole of the BRICS nation and they cannot do it. This means that they will go to Puerto Rico, buy up all the television channels, newspapers, colleges and Universities and setup two political camps both controlled by them.
Another occupied state
Newsom is a used-car salesman, par excellence.
America is socialist now how can we help... No posible way
Ivy league daycare for toddlers with affluencia 🤑
argentina has a lot of jus. surprised?
Prof. Wolff, shut up about Trump. Focus on the last 4 years of the Biden/Harris administration in their times of austerity & how it has broken our economy. I'm a poor Mexican American woman & I urge you to visit my neighborhood in Chicago & dwell in its poverty. In all my life in this country I have never seen such poverty everywhere, especially during the last 4 years.
Trump & Biden/ Harris & Trump have almost same policies inside & outside US.
@@samaval9920
Exactly. They are all simply the different side of the same coin.
You can change that on November 5th. VOTE
@@TC-eo5ebLOL
@@mshigh9425Vote for Jill Stein.She's the best choice in my opinion.
I'm voting for Joe McCarthy next month, seeing that the "communists" are back!
We're voting 🧩 next month now that "Fascism" is back on both sides.
Jill stein
😂😂😂
Independence of Puerto Rico would look like Cuba, Venezuela or Haiti.
Not for you to decide or the US in that matter. Huge debt has been pushed off on that island because of the capitalists going there for cheap labor and to use a a tax heaven. The people suffer and you have millionaires and billionaires going there to not pay taxes. It is dispicable. They can't even trade with anyone else because they are a US Common Wealth. And that is a problem in itself, and the people will not stand for it.
You know there's 195 nations in the world. You statehooders keep bringing up Cuba, Venezuela and Haiti over and over again like a hive mind. Independence is the only way out of this limbo status we are in now. Statehood is near to impossible to happen, there are so many obstacles keeping it from happening.
What is there to trade?
Narrow minded people always use the same mantra: “Look at Cuba, Venezuela or Haiti.” Shame on their intellect. Look at Mexico, Costa Rica or Chile, etc.
We can trade you, for someone else who can see out of the parallel world where you seems to exist.
Best wishes from Manchester Old England great show everybody keep up the good work ❤️😎 Cheers
Thanks!
Thanks!