Today while 20% chose Statehood, 80% chose to boycott the process. A resounding defeat. Who then represents Puerto Rico?
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Speech is a right, if you dont talk you are not heard. Voting is another right. If you dont vote, you are not heard.
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Don't do it, Puerto Rico! We're six kinds of fucked up in this union. Wait until Trump is out of office, k?
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Orrrrr, we could help prevent another such disaster by getting some Puerto Rican representation in Congress and the Electoral College?
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Yeah. They've done so well on their own . Street drugs would go down in price...
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Sorry PR, but the rest of us don't want to be on the hook for your enormous debt.
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.... you know how much debt the U.S. has right? They're still a U.S. territory, we still have an obligation to their debt.
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In a Democracy if you want to be heard you have to vote.Puerto Ricans overwhelmingly voted for statehood.Congress has to act
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Potus Trump is not the same as others have done absolutely nothing with the problem of Puerto Rico.
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That debt ridden island is the LAST thing the US will ever need. Please !!
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Is that how democracy works???
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I would think it's a hard pass. Who wants to be a part of the Trump shit-show
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Do reg'lar Americans have any say in whether
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Puerto Ricans are Americans. They just aren't a state.
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Territories: SUB-NATIONAL administrative divisions directly overseen by Fed (states share sovereignty w/ Fed).
#PuertoRico: UNINCORPORATED. -
Jones-Shafroth Act of 1917 established that Puerto Rican's are recognized as American citizens.
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Wrong, right or indifferent, that is DoneDeal. From perspective of 50 States, what's the argument for conferring statehood on
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Citizens in PR will have to pay federal taxes if they become a state, so it's mutually beneficial.
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Statehood for
#PuertoRico is "mutually beneficial" like whether#Comey or Trump is the liar comes down to a coin-toss. -
Nope. Not a coin toss in either case. Statehood = mutually beneficial. Trump = liar. Look how easy that was.
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