Private Action for Philippine Statehood (Want to become 51st State)

The Expansionist Party ^ | Fall 2004

[Mr. K]

YES!!!!!!!!

PI's are the hardest working and moral people I ever met. (And some of the most beautiful women *wink*)

[cripplecreek]

If we're going to start collecting states again we should start close to home in places that are culturally similar. You would think of Puerto Rico but even that country is a mess in some ways. I think Bermuda wouldn't be too bad as a test case.


I recall a thread several months back about a poll of Australians. A surprising number of them said that they would consider becoming Americas 51st state. They were a minority but it was still a surprising number, something like 25%.

[tertiary01]

I have worked with literally hundreds. They run the spectrum just like everyone else:, hard working, lazy, dumb, smart, you name it. There are traits in my profession they have a problems with: insisting on speaking their language when together, in front of non Tagalog speaking staff and patients; upon becoming supervisors, promoting their own over better qualified non Filipinos; and maintaining the professional boundaries between patients and staff.

[bert]

I would argue no.

While seemingly a democratic country, the Philippines are more of an aristocracy. The very wealthy control things and do not allow true market or democratic forces to act.

The Philippines have one of the best educated populations in the world but can't find jobs to support the graduates. Modern Saudi Arabia was built by very well educated Philippino/as working under the directioon of American and other western managers. They were or rather are, cheap Americans. They think American, that is they know US based codes...ASTM, ASHRE, Milspecs,etc.

The Aristos in Manila would never surrender the control to allow the masses to rise. If it were so, the Philippines would be the star economy in Asia.

[MikefromOhio]

I think we would want to gain states that would be located closer to home first, like say Puerto Rico (who already supplies soldiers to our military) or say Alberta and Saskatchewan or something....

[bert]

Interesting comment......

Strangely believe it, one of the most revered careers for a philippino was in the US Navy. I don't know what happened to this policy when we left but there were lots of young men who signed up every month and I am reasonably certain there were many more than from Puerto Rico.;n

[MikefromOhio]

we had some Filipinos in Baghdad helping do things that freed up soldiers, like cooking and cleaning and stuff....they worked their A$$e$ off that is for sure....

[Wristpin]

Accessing of Phillipinos ended a few years after they shut down our bases. The long standing practice was pay back for the sacrifice and assistance of the Phillipinos during WWII.

[AntiBurr]

The Philippines has been independent for over 53 years, if one counts only the period since the U.S. withdrew on July 4, 1946. Oddly, the Philippines has decided to ignore its years as a colony of the United States and count its independence from 1898. The Philippine Centennial Commission dates things this way:
Just excersizing my memory, but we acquired the Phillipines at the end of Mr. Hearst's War in 1898. After we had taken it from Spain, we then had to take it from the Philipinos in the form of Aguinaldo. He had a nice treatment for prisoners of war...he staked them out alive on ant hills. I suppose since they were Army, it was o.k. to feed them to the army ants.
I think we called them a possesion rather than a colony like American Samoa and Midway Island.
Yeh, I think it would be more trouble than it is worth.

OTOH I recall that Michelle Malkin is half Philipino and she is a close runner up to Ann Coulter in my opinion.