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To: Buckeye McFrog

But at least we can forget about ANY thought of statehood for PR


6 posted on 06/29/2015 9:34:18 AM PDT by ken5050
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To: ken5050

Except that PR doesn’t want to be a state (all the benefits, no responsibilities)...and becoming a state could be a condition for the feds paying that debt off. The Obama might be happy to write a $72,000,000,000 check (bounce? nah, he’ll just borrow $72B from the Federal Reserve) if PR residents vote for statehood, boosting the voter base just before November 2016.

If the Obama is lucky, Texas will secede (taking a comparable chunk of the opposition’s voter base with it), obviating the problem of deciding how to cram 51 stars on the flag.

Democratic candidate wins, Wall Street sighs with relief, the Left is happy, the Right is diminished...sounds like a plan if you’re so inclined (which I’m not).


11 posted on 06/29/2015 9:45:50 AM PDT by ctdonath2 (The world map will be quite different come 20 January 2017.)
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