Word: bootstrapping
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What does Bootstrap cost the U.S.? "What does Missouri cost...
...Bootstrap's hard pull has by no means yanked Puerto Rico to its announced objective of full employment; 13% of the labor force of 636,000 have no jobs (v. 18% at present in Detroit). Main reason: the natural increase in population keeps pace with industrialization. "There is an old saying here that a man must do three things during life: plant trees, write books and have sons," sighs Muñoz. "I wish they would plant more trees and write more books...
...result of the population rise is heavy pressure for birth control, and early in Bootstrap the government unabashedly provided free contraceptives from 160 dispensaries. Under attack from the dominant Roman Catholic Church, the regime dropped word to clinic doctors not to push the practice. But postnatal sterilizations, at the request of the mother, are common; one estimate is that a fifth of all women 15 to 40 have been sterilized...
Fomento executives freely admit that migration to the U.S. has given Bootstrap a more successful look than it would otherwise have, and they willingly aid migrants to go. But compared to the recent migration of 2,274,000 persons from the U.S. South to the North and West...
Operation Serenity. Characteristically, Muñoz no sooner had Bootstrap going well four years ago than the poet in him came out. Was Puerto Rico turning materialist, losing its gracious leisure, abandoning its soul? Recalls a member of his staff: "He began talking about how industrialization was raising cities but destroying old values. He used to push a statue of Gandhi toward Moscoso while Moscoso was talking figures, rates, profits. One day Moscoso exploded: 'Stop shoving that statue at me! If I take it seriously, we will have no economic progress...