Posted on 04/27/2010 3:43:23 PM PDT by GailA
According to Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-MD), the House will vote on H.R. 2499, the Puerto Rico Democracy Act, later this week. The legislation provides Puerto Rico a two stage voting process and makes some non-resident Puerto Ricans eligible to vote on Puerto Rican statehood. This legislation has rigged the process in favor of making Puerto Rico the 51st state and is not a fair way to force statehood on a Commonwealth whose people may not want it. Furthermore, this may be an expensive proposition for the American people who are already on the hook for approximately $12.9 trillion in national debt.
This bill attempts to rig the voting process and denies the American people a real say on the issue of whether they want to allow Puerto Rico to be granted statehood. The fact of the matter is that Puerto Ricans have rejected statehood numerous times and this bill seems to have been written in a way to fast track statehood without a majority of Puerto Ricans favoring the idea. Furthermore, the people of the United States should be allowed a vote on whether they want to admit Puerto Rico as a new state. If the people of Puerto Rico can vote, the people of the United States should have a vote.
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Add this to granting citizenship to illegal aliens, and they ‘Rats are set with votes.
we may as well figure out how to get to 57 states since we have a POTUS who thinks we have that many
BINGO!
Two more dim Senators?
Democrats dredging for new votes again...Hey Heney, why don’t you see if Cuba wants to be a state too, while you’re at it.
Importantly, the governor of PR just signed a bill to invalidate ALL birth certificates as of July 1st. The reason for this is that the State Department estimates that 40% of US ID Theft cases are based on PR birth certificates. For those who were legitimately born in PR, they are going to have to pay $5 to get a new birth certificate at that time.
So the Democrats are desperate to shove this bill as quickly as possible, because a vast number of pro-statehood PR fakes are about to lose their identities.
your link takes me to the Wash. Post for the banking bill????
If they were to become a state, those who have jobs will become as enslaved as we are. They'll be paying the bills for the democrat base, too. There's a huge tuna industry there, so they'll get hit with the Death Care Bill, the VAT tax, and the Cap and Tax bill as well.
If they were smart, they'd fight to the death to remain free. They'd be stupid to voluntarily become U.S. taxpayer slaves.
California tried to split into two states in 1860. Lincoln decided it was not in the best interest of the US as SoCal leaned to the Confederacy. He vetoed the legislation
Any Puerto Rican citizen who lives outside of PR and votes for this bill should be made to go back and live in Puerto Rico.
Unfortunately there is no way to know how a person votes (until Obama’s labor thugs get their card-check system in place). The law should be that no Puerto Rican resident of the US should be allowed to vote on this bill at all.
That can be checked by checking drivers licenses, billing addresses, etc.
I know> it ain’t fair but who gets a flying f**k. Steny Hoyer sold America out on the old immigration bills. How he is trying to screw us again over Puerto Rico. Meanwhile his state, Maryland, continues to go down the toilet, which is why I left it a long time ago.
The Democrats/Liberals/Socialists/Communists know they will be slaughtered in the midterms. So they want to compensate for that as much as they can. If they thought they could get away with it they would admit Puerto Rico as a State without holding any new plebiscite.
“We should let Puerto Rico decide.”
How about WE should decide...th American voters! NOT the blatantly corrupt congress!
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Yeah - but it will give liberal Democrats +2 votes in the Senate and +several votes in the House.
And that’s all that matters.
Have a nice day. You wanted hope and change America - Bend over. :)
“Furthermore, the people of the United States should be allowed a vote on whether they want to admit Puerto Rico as a new state.”
As for voters in the 50 states, they get to elect members of Congress, who will then have the final say on whether Puerto Rico becomes a state. A national referendum on admitting a new state would be unconstitutional and would set a dangerous precedent that would move the U.S. away from being the democratic republic that the Framers set up in the Constitution.
California should be split into 5 states, one in the Bay Area, one in L.A. County, one in San Diego, Imperial and Orange Counties, one in the Inland Empire, Kern, Ventura and other coastal areas, and one in the Central Valley all the way up to the Oregon border. The 5 states would combine to elect 6 GOP Senators and 4 Democrat Senators and cast a majority of electoral votes for the GOP presidential candidate.
“Puerto Ricans had better be wary. This may be biased in favor of Taxhood (that’s “impuesto” in Spanish)”
I am a resident of Puerto Rico and a lifelong statehooder. With the way the federal goverment is going, however, many like me believe that we should put the statehood thing on hold for a while longer.
Puerto Rico would have 2 Senators and 6 Representatives (where the heck did you get 8?) if it were a state. No one has any idea whether it would elect Republicans or Democrats to Congress. Yes, Puerto Ricans in NYC and Chicago (most of whom are second- or third-generation descendants of the Depression-era migration to the North)vote overwhelmingly Democrat (as do most residents of those cities), but in Central Florida the PR-born Puerto Ricans voted for Jeb Bush in 2002 and George W. Bush and Mel Martinez in 2004. And within Puerto Rico itself, a majority of state Senators and Representatives are Republicans, as is the Governor and the mayors of 5 of the 8 largest (100,000+ population) cities, including San Juan (pop over 400,000) and Bayamon (pop over 200,000).
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