Posted on 06/11/2017 3:58:08 PM PDT by SkyPilot
No thanks dude. We’ve decided way back that we’re not going to bail you out. We know that’s what your main goal is. GTH Dumbass
Libre Puerto Rico! !
Free the maggot parasite commonwealth colony!
Not a fan of the concept, despite otherwise enjoying Latin culture (food, language, music etc). As other posters have pointed out, we would end up with 2 more D Senators, and additional leftward slant on DC politics.
Instead of making new states, let’s restore true federalism and re-decentralize the several states.
Hahahahahahahahahaha!
I just voted for Puerto Rico to give me a million dollars.
Sorry, we don’t have room on the flag for another star
They already are. Let them have their own country since they act liek they do, and if they want to come here they then apply for a visa , and all welfare is cut off.
An economic basket case TWO DEMOCRAT SENATORS AND three Democrat CONGRESSMAN FOREVER? Get your hand out of my pocket and get lost Jose. Ain’t no way beat it. It would also become a HUGE open door for scumbags to sneak in our country. It already is and a few years ago they had to invalidate ALL P R birth certificate ALL OF THEM! to TRY to get some control and that was under Obama.
NO NO NO NO! GO AWAY we see right through this money grab.
BTW, FReepers, if congress brought forth the decision on P.R. statehood, I think that most senators would vote for statehood, mostly because there are a lot of scattered Puerto Ricans all over the country and their votes count, and the majority of senators (if not all), including republicans, don’t want to be seen as “racists”.
HELL. NO.
So, the mailman is a Hispanic. It’s election day.
ME: did you vote yet today?
HIM: I don’t vote here. I vote in my country.
ME: Where is your country?
HIM: Puerto Rico.
Been worried about the mail ever since.
Sorry, Madame Clinton got 48 percent of the vote and only that because she beat Trump by 4.3 million votes in left coast California. Take that out and Trump got close to the majority and beat her by 1.5 million votes. Also, if PR wants and is granted “independence” it should please the dorks who ran the PR day parade in NYC and selected a murdering terrorist who killed several Americans in the name of Puerto Rico “independence”. Lets “honor” the parade organizers and their supporters by giving them just that.
Puerto Rican voters back statehood in questioned referendum
Of course. They are broke and circling down the sewer of bankruptcy. Many years of corruption, grafting, bribery, and gross mismanagement are reaping the ineptitude of decades of thievery. Now, they want the good, old USA. To bail them out.
Not on your life, I say. If they can’t swim, let them sink. The USA already has enough of its own blood sucking unproductive handout seekers and drones.
Your anger is duly noted, but still, Hillary won the majority of the votes, and California’s votes would count too for the decision of P.R. statehood. That is where the difference lies, because, we’re not talking about the electoral college count in a simple majority decision. Now, if the decision were to be about P.R. statehood requiring not a simple majority, but a 60% or more, then the California vote would not matter, nor NY’s, which is where Hillary “won” the majority of votes.
The governor of Puerto Rico is Ricky Rosselló. His mother’s name is Maga Nevares de Rosselló. Any guy whose mom is named MAGA is OK with me.
I suggest that they do join the other 50 states. But I don’t think they should be their own state. I suggest that they join NY. It will be like the upper peninsula in Michigan. We don’t have to add a state.
I couldn’t agree more. Give them PR. Give us East & West California or North and South New York
No statehood.
No statehood.
We do not need nor want Puerto Rico as a state.
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