Sell it back to Spain, or whoever the highest bidder is.
Use money to pay off national debt.
I agree, Puerto Rico should be an independent nation.
No, let them go.
Cut em loose
What would anyone have against PR to even want to propose Congress take control?
Puerto Rico should be pried loose from the federal nipple, and cast out to sea on its own. Let them sink or swim as an independent nation - but , either way, they gotta go. We don’t need these Caribbean leeches sucking us dry.
How about California?
Works for me.
We do not need another commie run near our Florida coast. Put the 82nd Airborne and a brigade of engineers at Base Ramey. Dismiss unnecessary govt employees and let the Army run the island as supervisors and the engineers over see construction.
“Hmmm. Maybe not popular but........cut ‘em loose. “
That would be one way to turn Florida into a Solid Blue State in less than a week as 95% of Puerto Ricans would leave the island.
Believe it or not, I lean towards Yes, we should assume direct control.
Like it or not, better or worse, they are a territory of ours. We can’t cut them loose and say “Adios”.
The problem lies in asking Congress to take over the affairs of the territory. Congress right now seems incapable of taking care of the affairs of the current 50 states. I can’t picture them doing the right thing fiscally for Puerto Rico.
The only alternative (and I don’t know if it’s feasible) is to assume direct control for a very specific period (example 5 years) do our utmost to get the islands fiscal affairs in order and then offer them two choices: statehood or independence. Continued territorial status is no longer an option.
Now don’t get me wrong, I don’t want PR to be our 51st state. I’d prefer they went away - far away. But if they choose statehood, we need to treat their petition like any other territory that applied for statehood.
No.Let Puerto Rico go it’s own way and become an Independent country.We have No need for that Island any more.
No...move the Puerto Ricans to California, then, cut California loose from the USA.
Then, move all the Never-Trumpers, liberal, media, and RINOs, and people who threatened to leave if Trump got elected, to the Island.
If they give us any shit, then cut them off from everything.
Exactly. The United States does not an entire country almost exclusively populated by welfare recipients.
I agree. We should declare Puerto Rico’s independence but not before we abolish chain migration.
Put it up For Sale , $1
Puerto Rico will never be ‘first world’ because their culture sucks.
Puerto Rico made an unrecoverable mistake when they let the left wing essentially run The US Navy and Air Force out of Puerto Rico.
I lived and worked there for three years as a civilian,and the Roosevelt Roads Navy base, Fort Buchanan, the Marine base in Vieques and several other installations, pumped huge numbers of dollars into the economy with wages paid, vendors, etc., etc. When the military left, the economy started its downward plunge.
The PR dems wanted the land for Puerto Rican use. Now that they have it, what do they have??
My thoughts too, right down to the choice of words.