Posted on 01/02/2017 10:51:02 AM PST by Olog-hai
Puerto Rico’s new governor was sworn in Monday, promising an immediate push for statehood in a territory facing a deep economic crisis.
Gov. Ricardo Rossello, 37, proposed several measures aimed at alleviating the crisis shortly after he was sworn in at midnight. Among them is a proposal to hold a referendum that would ask voters whether they prefer statehood or independence. Many have argued that Puerto Rico’s political status has contributed to its decade-long crisis that has prompted more than 200,000 people to flee to the U.S. mainland in recent years.
“The United States cannot pretend to be a model of democracy for the world while it discriminates against 3.5 million of its citizens in Puerto Rico, depriving them of their right to political, social and economic equality under the U.S. flag,” Rossello said in his inaugural speech, delivered in Spanish. “There is no way to overcome Puerto Rico’s crisis given its colonial condition.” …
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And we promise absolutely NOT!! Pay your own damned bills!! We don’t have the money!!
Why on earth would we want to acquire a debt ridden island with its hand perpetually out to us for money as a state? Only the PR head of the NYC Council, who spends about 99% of her time lobbying for us to hand over our hard-earned monies to PR instead of attending to the needs of the NYC citizens who elected her, would seem to think so.
Didn’t the citizens of PR just vote NO to statehood?
Now that they’re bankrupt, they want to become a state. Does that include military bases too?
And just why would the United States want to add a fiscally irresponsible, bankrupt, criminal burdened, Democrat infested pack of people as a new state? What is in it for us?
Let’s say they do get this passed in PR... what is the process of approval on the US side?
Yes and along with it two liberal senators
The door can hit their ass on the way out, let them be their own country, they can form an alliance with the country of Kalifornia for all I give a crap...
The Puerto Ricans will continue to flee to the Mainland United States and mostly live and vote in Florida.
They act like it’s up to them. WE get to decide who is in OUR union. As it is, they should have been cut lose a long time ago. Send them packing and make all Puerto Ricans who were born outside of the US have to register as legal aliens who can only be here for a certain amount of time. Maybe if they have a stake in their island’s future it won’t continue to be the corrupt hellhole it’s become.
He delivered his speech in Spanish?
To become a state in the US?
Hahahahahahahahahahaha!
$70,000,000,000 of debt.
Puerto Rico has been running a government Ponzi Scheme for years.
The problem with Puerto Rico is the Puerto Rican people. They kept voting for liars who stole the money.
Their head guy could have stood up and said he was going to crap $70,000,000,000 worth of gold and the Puerto Ricans would have given him a standing ovation and some Ex-Lax to make sure they got it all.
“Send them packing and make all Puerto Ricans who were born outside of the US have to register as legal aliens who can only be here for a certain amount of time.”
If they were born in Puerto Rico, they are American Citizens, and you cannot make them register as aliens and you cannot send them packing.
They are Americans, with the exact same passport as you and the exact same rights of citizenship as you.
Why?
You gat all the Bennies NOW, withOut any of the drawbacks.
Cut them loose.
It constantly amazes me that normally intelligent FReepers don’t realize that Puerto Ricans are Americans.
Stupid Puerto Ricans. Right on que, they are exactly 8 years late with this crap!
“Let’s say they do get this passed in PR... what is the process of approval on the US side?”
A vote of the population of the people in Puerto Rico which has already passed.
A proposed state constitution that does not conflict with the United States Constitution.
A vote of the House and Senate.
The signature of the president.
Puerto Rico would be a fine addition to the Union, however they have to get their fiscal house in order first. We have enough issues with the fiscal time bombs in California and Illinois.
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