"Use your brain" says the flat-earther. Lots of comedic value in this thread!
"Use your brain" says the flat-earther. Lots of comedic value in this thread!
A shambling mess... created by our government, the fixing of which is only in our government's hands, because Puerto Rico is denied the power to create or change important economic legislation by virtue of their bizarro land status. If anything, Republicans should be putting all of their spin to work to show Puerto Rico as the poster child of what happens when local government is superseded by federal government, but instead, they're too busy using it to back up idiotic things said by Donald Trump.
You are grossly misinformed as to what that vote was about, since it sure as hell wasn't to make Puerto Rico a state. Literally all they were doing was voting on whether or not to accept the constitution that Congress had allowed Puerto Rican leaders to draft. The alternative wouldn't have been statehood, it would have been direct US rule without any Puerto Rican constitution at all. Statehood was never even on the table (nor, for the record, was complete independence).
That wasn't a binding vote, it was a glorified opinion poll for which there was a sizable movement to vote "none of the above" because they were dissatisfied with the way the options on the ballot were worded.
Again, not actually voting for statehood. Glorified opinion poll for which there is little evidence Congress had any intention of really paying much attention to in the first place. Most Puerto Ricans didn't even fill out their ballots, but of those who did just over half wanted to become a state.Then 2012 a decade or so after clinton cut the tax breaks for companies that put their homes in PR causing mass exodus of companies from PR.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puerto...ferendum,_2012 Is the first time they voted for statehood.... As their country was already amassing massive debt and hadn't broken even one year since Clinton's subsidies cut.
It was a Referendum vote IE the same vote as Brexit.. So calling This a glorified popularity contest then what is Brexit??????? It was a vote to push the goverment to have something to show congress.
However as I stated It doesn't really matter what PR wants because to be fully honest right now it would be dumb for the US to get involved and make PR a state just to have to bail them out of 70 Billion dollars of debt or Have them go bancrupt and hurt the US standing internationally. No way Congress would allow PR to become a state or even touch voting on it... as its political suicide to ask tax payers to pay out 70 billion dollars to add a new state that is financially a disaster to begin with.
Last edited by Moshots; 2017-10-13 at 09:08 AM.
Besides the errors in this post, the best part is how it confirms what i just said. It is not about how much money a part of your land brings you it's about being a strong and proud enough nation to care about all your subjects and act correctly towards them.
The richest nation in the world making excuses like this to aid others makes you simply come across not so rich and fairly weak.
FEMA can't stay in Puerto Rico forever, that's true, but how about FEMA stays in that part of the United States of America until they've helped all the American citizens there to stay alive and continue their lives? That seems like a great time limit.
Oddly enough, that's what FEMA has said. It's literally only Trump who's suggested this is their fault, that there are obstacles, that it would be unfair for trade, etc. Only Trump has suggested leaving before the job is done, to the point that the White House had to What He Meant Was.
Problem is, only Trump is in charge of FEMA. Only his opinion matters. And he's laying the groundwork for a premature exit.
Twitter has the best term for how the Alt-Right thinks of Puerto Rico:
"Sea Mexicans".
Replace every instance of "Puerto Ricans" when MMO-OT's Alt Right loser brigade says it with "Sea Mexicans" and their obvious position becomes even more obvious.
Its about not hurting the 50 states to add a 51st...... You want to cut funding to the other 50 states to fund a bancrupt 51st state??? Thats how you lose your job as a congressman voting for that... Because i'm not gonna vote for a congressman that is fine with having our school funding and our state medicaid funding and other shit cut because there is now 51 pieces of pie instead of 50... PR is a financial disaster (OF THEIR OWN MAKING) that would hurt the funding of many states that already don't get enough funding... Even democrat congressman would see that and the vote wouldn't even be close.... Sorry but money is how this country works you only have so much and more people get hurt in the process if you just spread it too thin...
Last edited by Moshots; 2017-10-13 at 05:44 PM.
I can't speak for "bankrupt" but there are ten states that owe more money than Puerto Rico.
These include Texas and Florida. Louisiana owes about half what PR does. And we sent everything we had, with or without concerns with "big water ocean water", immediately, and haven't talked about their debt once until Trump said something stupid about why he wasn't helping his fellow Americans.
That guy should totally talk to the President of the Virgin Islands. That might straighten things out.