[WENDLE]

And we promise absolutely NOT!! Pay your own damned bills!! We don’t have the money!!

[Texas Fossil]

“This is a historic moment for Puerto Rico,” said 50-year-old Jose Davila as he waved a large flag from Rossello’s pro-statehood New Progressive Party. “He's the hope of our island, he's the hope for statehood, he's the hope for a people that have suffered.”

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New Progressive Party? Opps! What could possibly go wrong?

[Jack Black]

Well I think it's fine for them to vote. But I think the rest of us should vote too, after all it's our nation we should decide who is invited to be a State.

Wikipedia:

Congress is under no obligation to admit states, even in those areas whose population expresses a desire for statehood. In one instance, Mormon pioneers in Salt Lake City sought to establish the state of Deseret in 1849. It existed for slightly over two years and was never approved by the United States Congress. In another, leaders of the Five Civilized Tribes (Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek, and Seminole) in Indian Territory proposed to establish the state of Sequoyah in 1905, as a means to retain control of their lands.[15] The proposed constitution ultimately failed in the U.S. Congress. Instead, the Indian Territory was incorporated into the new state of Oklahoma in 1907.

I do not support statehood for Puerto Rico, in fact I support Independence and would like to see the USA exit our control, just as we have from some pseudo-nation islands in the Pacific. I favor this regardless of what the Puerto Ricans want.

Essentially my position is : you have grown up and your parents are kicking you out of the house. Get a job