Couldn't make this crap up.
The Social Security Administration (SSA) approved disability benefits for hundreds of Puerto Ricans because they do not speak English, despite the fact that Puerto Rico is a predominantly Spanish-speaking territory.
According to a new audit by the Office of Inspector General (OIG), the agency is misapplying rules that are intended to provide financial assistance to individuals who are illiterate or cannot speak English in the United States. Under the rules, Puerto Ricans are allowed to receive disability benefits for their inability to speak English as well.
“We found the Agency did not make exceptions regarding the English-language grid rules for claimants who reside in Puerto Rico, even though Spanish is the predominant language spoken in the local economy,” the OIG said.
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Trying to make sense of this. The US colonized Puerto Rico with brute force.
ReplyDeleteMaybe now there are more English speaking peoples than Spanish speaking.
A insert from the over-throw of Puerto Rico. Total dictatorship. I can now,
more than ever, sympathize with Russia of today.
The invasion and colonization of Puerto Rico was motivated by the Economic interests of banks and corporations owned by rich and politically powerful people in the United States. During this period the United States and the other industrial capitalist nations such as Great Britain, France, Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands, Denmark and Japan - maintained competitiveness among themselves in the conquest for colonies. With the invasions of the Philippines, Guam, Cuba and Puerto Rico, the U.S. became an imperialist power. The Most economic and politically powerful figures in the U.S. envisioned implementing a strategy for the eventual control of the world, especially Latin America supported by the Monroe Doctrine
Puerto Rico had a Nationalist Party whom were brutally slaughtered by the US.
I can now, more than ever, sympathize with Russia of today.
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