Posted on 04/28/2010 4:47:55 PM PDT by yoe
Last night (Tuesday) on his TV show, Glenn Beck dropped another bombshell — on Thursday, Congress will take up a bill to make Puerto Rico a state. Why is our Congress doing this now? Secretly? Quickly? If it hadn’t been for one of Beck’s “Refounders” (a Congressional insider), would we even know about this? Why is this important to you and me?
Well, the word is out, and my local 9-12/Tea party organization sent this out this morning. First thing to hit my mailbox, in fact…
There is a bill to make Puerto Rico a state. Again, they are trying to pull one over on us and on Puerto Ricans, who have consistently said they do not want to become a state. Read below for more information (from Eagle Forum). This was also discussed by Rep Tom Price on a conference call yesterday.
Please consider this:
* The U.S. would transform, overnight, into a bilingual nation. At least half of Puerto Ricans do not speak English, the language of our U.S. Constitution and founding documents. The Washington Times article, “Puerto Rican statehood,” analyzes all the implications of adding a foreign language-speaking state to the Union.
* It would bring immediate demands for massive federal spending. The average income of Puerto Ricans is less than half that of our poorest state, and infrastructure and the environment are far below American standards. Puerto Rico has a population with a median national income of $17,741, nearly a third of that for the U.S.
* Puerto Rico is already a democracy. Despite the bill’s deceptive title, Puerto Rico already has an elected government and exists as a self-governed commonwealth of the U.S.
* Statehood would give Puerto Rico more congressional representation than 25 of our 50 states! It would inevitably give Democrats two additional U.S. Senators and 6 to 8 additional Members of the House.
H.R. 2499 is stealth legislation designed to lead to the admission of Spanish-speaking Puerto Rico as the 51st state, thereby making us a de facto bilingual nation, like Canada. The U.S. Congress should not be forcing Puerto Ricans to vote on statehood, especially since the Puerto Rican people have rejected statehood three times since 1991!
No Member of Congress who describes himself as a limited government, fiscal conservative should be casting a YEA vote for H.R. 2499, as Puerto Rican statehood would cause an immediate increase in federal expenditures, particularly for taxpayer-funded welfare state services.
Sponsored by Puerto Rican delegate Pedro Pierluisi (D), the Puerto Rico Democracy Act (H.R. 2499) – which has reared its ugly head a number of times over the past few congresses but has yet to have any success – would require Puerto Ricans to hold a national referendum to decide if they want Puerto Rico to remain a self-governing U.S. commonwealth, or become the 51st state.
The referendum would be set up as two plebiscites which would effectively deceive Puerto Ricans into voting for statehood. In the first round of votes, the Puerto Rican people would be given the choice between remaining a U.S. territory and “pursuing a different political status.” If the majority votes to maintain the status quo, this bill would require that Puerto Rico vote on this same issue every eight years.
If the majority votes for “different status,” a second round of votes would be held where Puerto Ricans would choose either statehood or independence-the status quo of “U.S. territory” would not even be an option! In other words, the two ballots would be rigged to favor the outcome of statehood, overriding the wishes of Americans and Puerto Ricans who want to maintain the current commonwealth status.
* Contact your US congressmen AND (Take quick action here)
~~These revelations are absolutely terrifing!
Pray for America.
From the radio show today
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2qkataAlImU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvC2GDu1YdU
On Breitbart, from Kristinn Taylor and Andrea Shea King
MUST CALL YOUR CONGRESSCRITTERS TOMORROW, THURSDAY!
Thank you, Kristinn!
From the Breitbart info:
* Contact your US congressmen AND
* Take quick action here: http://www.capwiz.com/eagleforum/issues/alert/?alertid=14966151&type=CO
Move to the Midwest?
That has the largest, meanest, deepest earthquake fault of them all - the New Madrid fault. The last time it ripped, the earthquake went shaking for over a year!
Did you see the REPUBLICAN CO-SPONSORS? Links below posted on Glenn Beck’s thread, by combat_boots
GOOD conservatives, like Darrell Issa and Mike Pence!!
I am stunned.
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Representative
Pedro Pierluisi D-PR
http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h2499/show
http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=h111-2499
181 CO-SPONSORS!!!
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I’m sick, absolutely nauseous.
Such as?
Yes...New England Catholics and Catholics from south of the border have proved instrumental in advancing the conservative agenda...
That's what they said of Obamacare.
DC has an electoral vote. They don’t have a Representative or Senator.
Welfare for all. Redistribute your money to San Juan! Castro for IRS CZAR!
Did you know legislation passed (Pact Act) which forbids cigarettes to be sent through the mail, effective July 1st? Never a peep from the MSM as even they'd have a difficult time spinning it to be 'out of concern for it's citizens'. It's to keep the tax burden States from not getting their fair share.
I wonder how Sharpton feels about this. Could mean more freebies to PR’s and less for his clan!
Yes, admitting Puerto Rico should put the leftists over the top for the next presidential election.
You forgot the “sarcasm” tag.
Why are Issa and Pence co-sponsors?
Why are they supporting this bill?
PENCE?!?!?! Well he’s off the list now. Seriously.
Because you keep confusing Republican with conservative. There are plenty of DC type Republicans who in fact wish the death of conservative political power. That’s why we never see actual change in Washington even when pubbies are in power.
OK, maybe I am just dense. I don’t understand what the issue is with this bill and why it is so horrendous. Part of me discounts it because Glenn Beck is practically incontinent when discussing it so it seems blown out of proportion. Can someone help me make sense of it??
“Not bloody likely for a myriad of reasons.”
On the surface, I would agree. They’ve voted against it 3 times now. However, if you missed Glenn Beck’s Wednesday show be sure to watch it on youtube.....he explained exactly how The New Progressive Party in Puerto Rico plans to trick it’s voters into voting for it.
Did you even watch the Glenn Beck show on Wednesday? It sounds to me, by your criticism, that, since you haven’t been able to “make sense of” the bill, that you have more of an issue with Glenn Beck than anything else. JMO.
I don’t always agree with Beck, but I pay very close attention to the information he gives, because generally, I get it no where else. I found yesterday’s show to be explained in great detail, highly informative, and, given what passage will mean to the transformation of this country, not at all blown out of proportion.
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