Posted on 06/12/2017 9:42:21 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Even for US presidential elections the % that choose not to vote is bigger than any single political party. It’s been that way for a long time, we haven’t had even 65% eligible voter turnout since 1908, most of the time it has been way less than that.
Freegards
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puerto_Rican_government-debt_crisis#Cessation_of_federal_subsidies
For much of the 20th century Puerto Rico was subject to favorable tax laws from the US federal government, which essentially acted to subsidize the island's economy. In 1996, US President Bill Clinton signed legislation phasing out important parts of the favorable federal tax code over a ten-year period ending in 2006. The end of the subsidies led to companies fleeing the island which itself subsequently led to tax shortfalls. At first, the Puerto Rican government tried to make up for the shortfall by issuing bonds. The government was able to issue an unusually large number of bonds, due to dubious underwriting from financial institutions such as Spain's Santander Bank, UBS, and Citigroup. Eventually the debt burden became so great that the island was unable to pay interest on the bonds it had issued.
It's not like they're blameless, but the problem started with Clinton and Congress.
That's an idea whose time will never come. Look how well it worked out for Canada. Twice as many $ spent to say 1/2 as much in any public space and a very prickly relationship between Canadians of French & English heritage.
One of the things in my wishlist is for President Trump to formally declare English as the language of the USA and stop the requirements for court translators, hospital translators, documents from the DMV & other G'vt agencies in 26 languages and English as a second language in schools.
She wasn’t bad looking in high school. In the few decades since then, she’s gained a lot of weight, got into drugs, had kids with multiple dads and ran up a lot of credit card debt. Your time has come though. She’s willing to move in and let you pay her bills for her.
“The United States of America will have to obey the will of our people!”, That’s not how it works buddy. Better get used to it.
The Puerto Rico Shuffle.
A new dance by the Democrats.
If the people of Puerto Rico want to do the right thing, then they should throw their politicians (including former politicians and their families) in jail and confiscate all of their wealth.
Until then, forget it.
Congress is not about to offer statehood and Puerto Ricans know that. Then why waste a beautiful Sunday voting on something that is never going to happen?
We got PR and the Philippines from Spain after Spanish American War. Wilson’s war was very unpopular and he could see that relying on volunteers was just not working. The Irish didn’t want to fight for England and the Germans didn’t want to fight their cousins. Wilson’s solution was to give PR 1/2 citizenship which was just enough to DRAFT you PR men. America freed the Philippines in 1946 but we still hold PR. Why? Let them go and be a protectorate of Castro’s. Let’s see how that works out. Anyway I don’t care if 100% of them voted 100% for statehood the answer is NO!
Puerto rico is an economic basket case.
Along to lines as Haiti
77% are holding out for a Better Deal ,LOL
They want statehood for all the freebies and ALSO to roll out the welcome mat for all the ‘refugees’ from Europe and Africa-at our continued and increased expense... They’ll posture, pose and represent themselves as “AMERICA”, to the rest of the world
You say that then proceed to show that it has already happened. There have been a few congressmen try to pass legislation that would make English the official language without success for 50 years.
You expose the gap between the direction SJW have been able to drive the country and the Constitution. We can still turn away from the cliff.
What next for PR ?
23 % turnout is hard to read.
Alaska, Hawaii, Arizona and Wisconsin had similar turnouts and lesser percentage during their statehood votes.
This is just part of the long haul. We’re just going to keep pestering as in the Tennessee Plan until we’re admitted.
We got PR and the Philippines from Spain after Spanish American War. Wilson’s war was very unpopular and he could see that relying on volunteers was just not working. The Irish didn’t want to fight for England and the Germans didn’t want to fight their cousins. Wilson’s solution was to give PR 1/2 citizenship which was just enough to DRAFT you PR men. America freed the Philippines in 1946 but we still hold PR. Why? Let them go and be a protectorate of Castro’s. Let’s see how that works out. Anyway I don’t care if 100% of them voted 100% for statehood the answer is NO!
lacking the initiative to go vote, the Puerto Ricans in essence voted against any action.
I can sense the panic among many FReepers about Puerto Rico coming into the Union as a Democrat state. Would they feel the same panic if the island was a Republican stronghold, lousy economy and all?
At this rate, we might as well goad all those deep-blue West Coast and New England states into seceding from the Union. That would certainly purify the Congress!
I think that will be a tall order after PR chased the US Navy away...
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