{"id":71028,"date":"2015-07-13T12:54:43","date_gmt":"2015-07-13T20:54:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=71028"},"modified":"2015-07-13T14:39:06","modified_gmt":"2015-07-13T22:39:06","slug":"steve-sailer-why-puerto-rico-rules-america-instead-of-vice-versa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=71028","title":{"rendered":"Steve Sailer: Why Puerto Rico Rules America Instead of Vice-versa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.unz.com\/isteve\/why-puerto-rico-rules-america-instead-of-vice-versa\/\">Steve Sailer writes<\/a>: &#8220;Puerto Ricans have high crime and welfare rates and low test scores, so we have to treat them with rhetorical kid gloves in case anyone thinks we are implying that they have high crime and welfare rates and low test scores.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Comments to Steve Sailer:<\/p>\n<p>* It\u2019s as if the writer thinks that PR\u2019s economic stagnation and high crime are like bad weather\u2014just unfortunate local conditions that people should move away from\u2014rather than characteristics of the people themselves.<\/p>\n<p>* Yes, it is the same with housing vouchers (Section 8, etc) on the mainland. Bad neighborhoods are like bad weather, don\u2019t you know? If taxpayers simply pay (lots) to relocate the residents of bad neighborhoods into good neighborhoods, the next thing you know, those people will be well-behaved, highly-educated, gainfully-employed, and listen to classical music instead of hip-hop.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steve Sailer writes: &#8220;Puerto Ricans have high crime and welfare rates and low test scores, so we have to treat them with rhetorical kid gloves in case anyone thinks we are implying that they have high crime and welfare rates &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=71028\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26967],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-puerto-rico"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=71028"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71028\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71031,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71028\/revisions\/71031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}