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Posted on 01/08/2015 10:18:29 AM PST by Ebenezer
Puerto Rico ping
It should be a state. BTW, I read recently that VZ is contributing to the leftist PR independence movement. VZ is broke, but they always have enough money to cause trouble.
Is English taught at all in PR schools ?
If PR ever became independent, most inhabitants would make a bee line for the US before it took effect.
Warning to San Juan: if you join, you can never leave. That is not a right you will have anymore. Ever.
If any of you try to discuss leaving, you will be called a “neo-confederate”.
If you actually try to leave, the president will invade and decimate your economy for decades.
What is it about Latino politicians that makes them always whine about how downtrodden they are. Pedro Pierluisi forgets to mention in his little bitch-fest that statehood has always been open for a vote but Puerto Ricans have rejected statehood in the past. The reason why Puerto Ricans cannot vote for president is because they chose not to be a state - end of story!
The grifters in the Puerto Rican government have always wanted to have their cake and eat it too. They have not pushed for statehood because they know that the pressure to reform Puerto Rican government would escalate immediately from the Feds and the Puerto Rican people.
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As should Guam, the Virgin Islands, American Samoa, and the Northern Marianas.
At least if Puerto Rico gets in we can have a 52 card deck - 51 states, 1 for the territories that remain, and DC as the joker.
I like the 2nd one - it’s got a central star in it that shows we’re united but individual states - then add one in each corner for any of the others that join going forward.
How many states do you think would opt for similar status if given the same choices as PR voters?
DC will be the joker no matter what...
Cut then loose. A republic and not an empire.
what taxes will they pay?
just an entire state of welfare rats is all
Yes, they speak English. Some of them speak it better than others, depending on their educational level, but PR is basically bilingual. And they’re actually rather proud of it. We get a lot of PR tourists in my town, and they like to be addressed in English.
PR is nice. Great beaches, beautiful interior, and lots of historic sites. It was important militarily to both Spain and the US because it is the gateway to the Caribbean.
It’s poor for a variety of historical reasons, but the population is hardworking and if it could get rid of its leftwing civil service unions (which defeated its conservative governor a couple of years ago) it would be good. But because it’s not a state and is a federal civil service preserve, both bureaucracy and unions have way too much power.
They might want to reconsider....as it is, only the activist are pushing for statehood....Basic Minimum Rate (per hour): $3.61 to $5.15. and (taxes) & (Hate taxes>)....Congressman Pedro R. Pierluisi is not telling his constituents the truth about becoming a state instead of the Territory they are. Huge taxes they have not ever had and a plethora of responsibilities they would face with state hood....or is this another "minority gets a pass" thingy.....
Once they ran the US Navy out of Vieques I changed my view of PR. Pretty island but they can’t have their cake and eat it too.
“We would like to be a state”
“No”
“Well at least we tried”
Fantastic. Just what we need, 10 new leftist Democrat Senators. I much prefer if Puerto Rico is given independence, if they like it or not.
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