Posted on 11/03/2016 9:47:20 PM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
He should. The island is a burden. He can make it the jewell of Latin America as the Castro's and Maduro's are on the run. Dump out all the Puerto Ricans in our jails. Independence is in the heart.
He could make it a gambling mecca—on the model of Indian casinos. Everyone would get a piece of the action.
They ain’t getting off our gravy train. Independence and have to build their own culture/society? No way!
oh man nobody cares about any of this crap until after Tuesday,, seriously?
Trump statement on Puerto Rico.
They will never vote independence
Never never never
They are arguably the most dependent sub demographic this side of the Mississippi delta or no resources Indian reservations
What would our flag look like? Think about it.
If he is elected, yes, he should just to bring the issue up for national discussion. I have long suspected that eventually, Puerto Rico or Brazil will become a part of the United States. This will be brought up in a decade or two as a way to replace the lower class working population in this country.
Many who meet that description now will have retired. The Millenials won’t be having enough babies to fully repopulate. The debates will be fierce, due to Brazils crooked governments, police on the take, large number of gangs and violent criminals. I know it sounds like Chicago.
They have self determination and if they would elect to be independent, the Puerto Ricans would not lose their US citizenship.
They would then all move to Florida.
I think we should cut them off like partially severed limb.
“I think we should cut them off like partially severed limb.”
Unless that is what Puerto Rico wants, we would never cut them off.
Good Heavens - YES!
Get those lazy dysfunctional ungrateful parasites off of us, once and for all.
Diversity of lower class, morals, and aptitude if NOT our strength.
RE: Give PR independence to that we can delouse.
2. He should give the bleak choice: statehood or independence, no "business as usual" -- if he DOES, then the supermajority of puerto ricans will vote for statehood
3. if he unilaterally decides to give it independence even if it doesn't want it, then he cannot toss out the puerto Ricans already in the US -- they came legally and they would be granted the opportunity to become citizens, which the majority would take
What rational person would give that up for statehood or independence?
FWIW, my wife's paternal grandparents came here from Puerto Rico.
Puerto Rico’s latest gambit is massive television advertising pushing the “paradise” meme.
I want to know who falls for that stuff, because I have a bridge between Manhattan and Brooklyn I want to sell them.
It could be the model for Latin America except it’s crowded down there. Buy that chunk of barren land in Brazil and let them develop it.
The Puerto Rican people have voted against it, repeatedly IIRC.
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