Puerto Rico Persuasive Speech

Persuasive Speech Outline

Title: Puerto Rico Receiving Statehood, by Kailani Talag

Exact purpose: To convince the audience that Puerto Rico should be a state

INTRODUCTION

Attention Grabber: Does anyone know how far it is from here to San Diego? It’s about an hour and half, just around 100 miles long. That is the same size of Puerto Rico

Thesis: I am here to day to convince the class, why Puerto Rico deserves to be a state, by explaining the faults in its health care, declining financial status, and their limited involvement in the government

Qualification: I have done extensive research on this topic,

First I will discuss some essential background about Puerto Rico Puerto Rico is a territory of the United States. It became a U.S.

Therefore, they deserve the an equal amount of funding the states receive,

Physician Outmigration —Unfortunately there is a great outmigration of physicians because they the lack of funding. According to NPR, It comes to no surprise that according to NPR, in 2016, at least one doctor a day leaves the island

Hence, the citizens must pay a large amount of money to get treatment, and this also makes it difficult for them to find specialists

According to Carols Roman, a family doctor on the island, in a 2015 New York Times article, the companies do not cut their own profits instead they target doctors pay, limit treatment services and

This is inhumane and as a society we should be more than concerned, we should be angry

TRANSITION SENTENCE: Furthermore, not only the the financial situation of healthcare is in dire need of help,

Reason 2: The financial state of Puerto Rico is in need of assistance

The economy has been declining, and in an effort to help, the U.S offered massive tax breaks to companies who were willing to relocate there, this brought booming business, until the mainland began struggling and cut this program in 1996,

This was devastating because a majority of these companies left, taking their jobs with it, abandoning the citizens

Example 1— I am not sure how many of you are aware but, Puerto rico has been in the news recently because Puerto Rico’s congressionally mandated a bill and filed for Title III bankruptcy-type protection from creditors in the United States Court for the District of Puerto Rico in the early morning of May 3.

Example 2—Unfortunately, part of their solution is to Puerto Rico was closing 184 public schools in a bid to save millions of dollars (May 2017) according to the Associated Press, this is only one way children are being