PR does not want it.
America does not want it.
The Enemies of America and the US Congress, who are
partners in crime, are both eager to shove this, too,
down the throats of captive Americans.
The Dems are after 2 more liberal Senatorial seats and something like 6 (?) House seats, plus the votes of the PRs, of course. Anyone who opposes this will be deemed racist.
they dont care what Americans want anymore...its just a power grab...plain and simple...we lost the nation.
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Red Alert! The vote is today?
Bran new America-hating voter block for democrats. Forcing a new language on us that will intensify balkanization. Aggravating FALN terrorists.
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Any Puerto Rican that votes in favor of anything that has any chance whatsoever to lead to statehood, should have their head examined.
Surely from the island, they must see what we are enduring on the mainland: Obama and his minions micromanaging every element of everyone’s life, the spending (which they will be on the hook for), the taxes (which are going UP), the loss of state soverignty. If they vote “yes” thinking they will get “benefits”...bad news. The cupboard is bare and the economic trainwreck known as Obama is going to be stopped via the scarce tax receipts and climbing debt. There is no more income to redistribute.
Worse part is, if they become a state, they’ll be as stuck as those of us in red states: there is no way out. Seceding is a great idea...but do you think a guy that takes away our choice of health care is going to allow anyone to secede without a big ass fight?
in 1959 the only way the republicans would accept Hawaii as a state was to make Alaska a state at the same time...
and visa versa.
what conservative leaning state would any of our other possesions give us....none....so they must remain a commonwealth.
Not only would the results of the federally sanctioned plebiscite not bind Congress to anything, constitutionally they couldn’t force Congress to admit Puerto Rico as a state, since the Constitution vests Congress with the exclusive authority to admit new states. Congress will have the final say on whether PR becomes a state.
As for the “Tennessee Plan,” it’s a gimmick proposed by some pro-statehood politicians in PR. DC did something similar in tbe 1980s, electing “shadow senators” to lobby for statehood (Jesse Jackson was one of them). It was a useless strategy.
I swear, the hysteria I’ve been hearing from conservatives regarding the plebiscite bill (similar to the one passed by tbe Republican House in 1998 that died in the Senate) is something that I would expect from liberals. Yes, the bill has flaws (one of them, allowing all U.S. citizens born in PR to vote even if they don’t live in PR anymore, is blatantly unconstitutional), but there is absolutely nothing nefarious about asking U.S. citizens in PR if they wish to continue living under territorial status (where they are legislated upon by a Congress that they did not elect) or would prefer a non-colonial status.
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