{"id":31686,"date":"2011-02-20T16:44:18","date_gmt":"2011-02-20T16:44:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/puerto-ricos-republican-gov-luis-fortuno-a-ron-paul-goldbug\/"},"modified":"2011-02-20T16:44:18","modified_gmt":"2011-02-20T16:44:18","slug":"puerto-ricos-republican-gov-luis-fortuno-a-ron-paul-goldbug","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/libertarian\/puerto-ricos-republican-gov-luis-fortuno-a-ron-paul-goldbug.php","title":{"rendered":"Puerto Rico&#8217;s Republican Gov. Luis Fortu\u00f1o; a Ron Paul Goldbug?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-rGiaykovsKY\/TV1Hw6tpRQI\/AAAAAAAAQr8\/aiV10B3nfmg\/s1600\/LuisFortunoPR.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/1df88_LuisFortunoPR.jpg\" border=\"0\"><\/a><strong>A 2012 VP prospect for the GOP?<\/strong><\/p><p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsmax.com\/RonaldKessler\/LuisFortuno-puerto-rico-deficit\/2011\/02\/16\/id\/386344\">Newsmax.com<\/a> interview - \"Puerto Rico's Gov. Fortu&ntilde;o Slashes Deficit\"<\/p><blockquote><p>Fortu&ntilde;o [cut] government expenses by 20 percent. He eliminated 17,000 government jobs, modernized government services to reduce costs, and decreased expenditures for official vehicles, cell phones, and credit cards by 10 percent.<\/p><p>Fortu&ntilde;o says Obama&rsquo;s policies are wrong. &ldquo;I believe that we need to empower our businesses and our taxpayers, and if we do that, our economy will grow at a much faster pace than we are today,&rdquo; Fortu&ntilde;o says. &ldquo;Secondly, we cannot continue printing money to cover our deficit. Thank goodness the states can&rsquo;t do that. So we have to bite the bullet, and that&rsquo;s exactly what I did.&rdquo;<\/p><\/blockquote><p>Addtional:<\/p><blockquote><p>Fortu&ntilde;o is for making the U.S. territory the 51st state. President Reagan favored statehood, as does the platform of the Republican Party. <\/p><\/blockquote><p><em>Note - the Governor was a speaker at the recent C-PAC, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.solidprinciples.com\/blog\/gov-luis-fortuno-at-cpac-2011-audio\/\">audio<\/a> of his speech.  <\/em><\/p><div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/1df88_7828681836623105417-7752530356582739484?l=www.libertarianrepublican.net\" alt=\"\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 2012 VP prospect for the GOP?From Newsmax.com interview - \"Puerto Rico's Gov. Fortu&ntilde;o Slashes Deficit\"Fortu&ntilde;o [cut] government expenses by 20 percent. He eliminated 17,000 government jobs, modernized government services to reduce costs, and decreased expenditures for official vehicles, cell &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/libertarian\/puerto-ricos-republican-gov-luis-fortuno-a-ron-paul-goldbug.php\">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":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-libertarian"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31686"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31686\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}