Puerto Rico pushing harder for statehood

[freakazoid]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/puerto-rico-pushes-for-statehood-calling-it-a-civil-rights-issue/2018/06/27/717c5092-7a43-11e8-93cc-6d3beccdd7a3_story.html?utm_term=.e1e02e19c7e6

I wonder what might of sparked this...

The island is also mired in a financial crisis after declaring a form of bankruptcy last year

[TommyGunn]

That's exactly what a country 20 trillion dollars in debt needs,  is another failed state in the fold.

[Fly320s]

I wonder what might have sparked this...

First, fixed that.

Second, who gets to decide if PR becomes a state?  Or gets cut loose as their own country?  I know which I would vote for.

[Ben]

First, fixed that.

Second, who gets to decide if PR becomes a state?  Or gets cut loose as their own country?  I know which I would vote for.

Yup. They are only doing this because they totally screwed up the territory and now want a bailout and free nanny state stuff. If they were doing okay, I guarantee they'd be screaming for independence.

[Perd Hapley]

So, they want to be a part of our Nazi dictatorship?

[lee n. field]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/puerto-rico-pushes-for-statehood-calling-it-a-civil-rights-issue/2018/06/27/717c5092-7a43-11e8-93cc-6d3beccdd7a3_story.html?utm_term=.e1e02e19c7e6

I wonder what might of sparked this...

Cut them loose.

I dunno, maybe the island will capsize.

[230RN]

I don't think you want to cut them loose.  They're almost 100% pure socialist* (hence their monetary problems even before the hurricanes) and too close to our shores for that.  Don't need another one.

Leave them as an unincorporated U.S. Territory.

Maybe we can install a new territorial governor, ya think?

Terry

* A euphemism for a well-known poisonous political faction.

[freakazoid]

First, fixed that.

It is now my life goal to never use it correctly. 

[Jim147]

I read one of the early stories on this and their first goal is to get all dems elected to congress.

Yeah screw that corrupt place.

[brimic]

Rep. José E. Serrano (D-N.Y.), who was born in Puerto Rico, said that if it is wasn’t clear that “Puerto Rico is in a colonial relationship with the United States, look at what happened after Hurricane Maria . . . they are an afterthought.”

Or it could have been that there was very weak infrastructure in 'Rico making it ripe to be wiped out by a disaster (like a hurricane) because everything was allowed to fall apart under demorcatic leadership, federal funds being stolen/squandered.
See also: New Orleans.

Puerto Rico needs to show some kind of fiscal responsibility before they become a state.

[Perd Hapley]

Or it could have been that there was very weak infrastructure in 'Rico making it ripe to be wiped out by a disaster (like a hurricane) because everything was allowed to fall apart under demorcatic leadership, federal funds being stolen/squandered.
See also: New Orleans.

Puerto Rico needs to show some kind of fiscal responsibility before they become a state.

Are they still mad that we didn't airlift entire hospitals and supermarkets to Puerto Rico, through hurricane conditions, in a 24-hour time-frame?

[Ben]

Are they still mad that we didn't airlift entire hospitals and supermarkets to Puerto Rico, through hurricane conditions, in a 24-hour time-frame?

I read an article yesterday that something of the reverse has happened. Apparently some 200-300 thousand Puerto Ricans have moved to Florida since the hurricane. It was suggested that they might sway Florida politics into the blue, since they vote based on government services.

[brimic]

Are they still mad that we didn't airlift entire hospitals and supermarkets to Puerto Rico, through hurricane conditions, in a 24-hour time-frame?

YES.

[brimic]

What we need is several hundred thousand intrepid colonialists to move to Puerto Rico, rebuild it into a modern paradise of industrial and tourist capitalism, vote all the bums out, then apply for statehood. 

[Hawkmoon]

Are they still mad that we didn't airlift entire hospitals and supermarkets to Puerto Rico, through hurricane conditions, in a 24-hour time-frame?

I read an article a day or two ago that reported there are (or were) lines and lines and piles and piles of "stuff" that had been airlifted into PR and that were still sitting around the airport because the government of PR couldn't find any trucks or drivers to distribute the stuff. That's hardly surprising -- I'm sure they had more important things to do -- such as holding 24/7 press conferences complaining about the lack of support from the U.S.

[Ben]

I read an article a day or two ago that reported there are (or were) lines and lines and piles and piles of "stuff" that had been airlifted into PR and that were still sitting around the airport because the government of PR couldn't find any trucks or drivers to distribute the stuff. That's hardly surprising -- I'm sure they had more important things to do -- such as holding 24/7 press conferences complaining about the lack of support from the U.S.

Also, just like in Third World Countries, many supplies went to the "right/connected" people.

[brimic]

I read an article a day or two ago that reported there are (or were) lines and lines and piles and piles of "stuff" that had been airlifted into PR and that were still sitting around the airport because the government of PR couldn't find any trucks or drivers to distribute the stuff. That's hardly surprising -- I'm sure they had more important things to do -- such as holding 24/7 press conferences complaining about the lack of support from the U.S.

Even if they had trucks & drivers, they didn't have roads cleared to the interior.

[Perd Hapley]

I'm sure they had more important things to do -- such as holding 24/7 press conferences complaining about the lack of support from the U.S.

They were making custom T-shirts for the mayor.

[just Warren]

They had a disaster and all she got was a lousy t-shirt?

[Hawkmoon]

I don't think you want to cut them loose.  They're almost 100% pure socialist* (hence their monetary problems even before the hurricanes) and too close to our shores for that.  Don't need another one.

Leave them as an unincorporated U.S. Territory.

That's what they make nukes for. We don't need Puerto Rico as a territory, or protectorate, or whatever they are now, and we certainly don't need them as a state. Cut 'em loose.

[Sindawe]

So, they want to be a part of our Nazi dictatorship?

Amerika über Alle, so long as Amerika is paying the bills.

[lee n. field]

Or it could have been that there was very weak infrastructure in 'Rico making it ripe to be wiped out by a disaster (like a hurricane) because everything was allowed to fall apart under demorcatic leadership, federal funds being stolen/squandered.
See also: New Orleans.

Puerto Rico needs to show some kind of fiscal responsibility before they become a state.

After they get statehood they can revert to being Illinois-in-the-Carribean.