Puerto Rico - Yes or No? In or Out? ¿Estado o no?

[inactive]

What about Haiti?

Well, if they were an American territory that yesterday voted in favor of citizenship, I might just start a thread on the matter

Short of congress stepping in I'd suspect our prez will push it right thru.

Congress can't "step in" as they're kind of the penultimate required step here; the President signing their Act is the final action. That's how statehood works. It's why we aren't two separate states.

 

[Old Fart]

I never really thought they would or could, just kind of a out of the side of my mouth remark.

 

[been]

yes...

Edit: It would be cool if they could vote on it somehow....unless they already did.

 

[Chard]

I say give them thier independence.

 

[RickN]

Works for me.

 

[willystruck]

Just more for the welfare roles.

 

[skyydiver]

Looks like it was an interesting two-part vote. I always read that the people would likely never choose statehood because their current status was kind of like that of a 20 something living with the parents. All the cool stuff without the responsibility. That must not have been totally accurate, given that the trend is "memememe", I think there must be, at least some perceived advantage to becoming a state.

 

[ez bake]

Just more for the welfare roles.

There it is...

I was seriously worried that we had lost a step in the battle against civility and empathy here at OSA.

Keep fighting the good fight brother. F!@# those foreigners and their cats too!

 

[Subsonic]

NO. It would have HUGE drain on the welfare system.

 

[Weatherby]

I trained a bunch of national guard guys from Puerto Rico one cycle. They'd get mad at each other and it sounded like Ricky Ricardo yelling at Lucy.