Posted on 06/21/2017 6:34:42 AM PDT by cll
Excellent idea!
+1
We obtained it via a war pushed by a crooked press.
Spain can have it back with our apologies.
Except Alaska didn’t shoot it’s wad and was bankrupt. You lived it up and now broke and want to be “saved”. FUPR...go back to Spain! They’ll take ya.
ABSOLUTELY NOT. The place is PACKED with DEMOCRAT VOTERS!!!
“PR offers nothing of value to the USA.”
Really. The ones I know are rabid Democrats. Takers. And the last thing we need is a huge infusion of MORE non-English-speaking people. NFW.
51 star layout could be fixed by adding the state of Jefferson, freeing the conservatives trapped in Governor Moonbeams LSD trip. And transferring a few Electoral votes from Democrats vote buying schemes to solid conservative values.
The Puerto Ricans deserve the right to self. Determination. We should aet them free to be their own nation.
I would be all for this if there was a provision made that Puerto Rico must support itself for the first 50 years. No wealth transfer to continue the liberal welfare state dream.
I think that would make the flag top-heavy...
Let’s trade them to Mexico for Baja.
Puerto Rico...swimming in debt.
Why golly gee, I dunno why we wouldn't bring them in.
PR can be given its independence.
They have been a net minus for the USA for a century plus.
Sounds good to me. The sooner the better......
The median IQ of Puerto Rico is 84. Need I say more?
Even if the P.R. legislature accepts that non-binding vote, and goes ahead with their own vote in favor of statehood, we should treat them like someone that recently filed bankruptcy...
- -First they have to dig themselves out of their own financial mess
- -Then they have to sucessfully balance their budget for SEVEN YEARS before our congress votes on their admittance
- -If ILLinois goes bankrupt, they should be sent back to being a territory, like Puerto Rico, with the same remedy applied to them
Agree. We don’t need another bankrupt failed state infested with Rat parasites.
Your post makes perfect sense to me...
California may become a territory soon as well...
I was just pondering what life would be like in one of these “new territories”. Would they become an ungoverned wasteland or federal province? What incentives would be put in place to return them to statehood and solvency?
>> Why shouldn’t citizens living in US territory be allowed to vote in federal elections? That would include Guam, and why not other far flung territories that are absolutely part of the US, but far too small to be considered for the normal representation in congress and the senate <<
Easy solution:
Make Guam, the Mariannas and American Samoa into counties of Hawaii.
>> if people would just read before offering a visceral reaction <<
Welcome to FR. Reading the articles is frowned upon.
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