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Fortuño received much criticism from the PPD shortly after announcing his proposed government reform plan. After promising to reduce public expenses by $1.2 billion, the Management and Budget Office Director (Primera Hora), Governor Acevedo Vila (El Nuevo Dia), and Senate Minority Speaker Jose Luis Dalmau (El Nuevo Dia) all criticized about how such cuts would be brought about through privatization. Dalmau claims that Fortuño's "real intentions are privatization". Ironically, Fortuños proposed budget cuts roughly equal the estimated deficit that will be present in Acevedo Vila's budget. By stating that Fortuños plan is impossible without layoffs, service reductions, and especially privatizations, they are simply admitting the failure of their own budget. The current administration has not only drastically reduced and priced up public services, but it has failed to eliminate the deficit and chip away at the public debt.

The most hypocritical thing, is that at this very moment the current administration is privatizing $150 million in public lands (Caribbean Business) and a public highway (El Vocero). There exists pending proposals to private the Lottery for $500 million and sell $2 billion in uncollected citizen tax debt for 1/4 its price (El Vocero). The later is the most infuriating thing I've ever heard: the government charges us x amount of dollars, simply to keep 1/4 of it and let private banks keep the other 3/4. Is it not the responsibility of the treasury department in the first place to charge its citizens taxes?

Even House Minority Speaker Representative Hector Ferrer stated in El Vocero that the PPD and PNP proposals are the same shit.