not even sure how to respond in a manner conducive to displaying how abject this concept is.

I'm Canadian and that would be awful. Americans don't realize how bad their country is because it's all they know. In Canada we have public health care so everyone can see a doctor if sick, we have gun control so we have 1/8 the number of murders per person as the US and we have 1/4 the amount of national debt per citizen as Americans.

Join a country that has 8X(!) the murder rate, is too stupid or selfish to care for their sick and is on the path to bankruptcy? NO THANKS! That would be a disaster.

That's before even getting into Canada's vast land and natural resource reserves, superior political system and better hockey team. The only way Canada joins the US is if they invade us, like they have many other countries. We have no interest.

To add to your argument. i think the US is about 16 trillion in debt while Canada is about 600 billion. mind you, the US is a bigger country....

I wouldn't be part of the black hole that America is becoming with horrid laws and blatant fear mongering media. No chance in hell.

So to you, 3.7 million american citizens that live in Puerto Rico are not important?

We have voted to end our current "commonwealth" status and move towards statehood, what has the US done? Nothing.

We don't get tons and tons of federal money because we don't get most benefits a normal citizen does.

We can't vote in a single federal election. Have in mind we currently have more population(which means more political power) than 21 states and that's because we've lost a lot of population and states have increased a lot, in the past we used to have more population than 28 or so states.

Not really you didn't, no.

The 2012 vote was a joke created only by a two tier vote.

The majority of people who cast ballots didn't vote for Statehood.... a number of them who voted for the first resolution, left the second blank. 

Likely thinking that their no vote on the first ballot counted as no vote against any of the other options.

If you look at the results

http://resultados.puertoricodecide.com/2012/elecciones/Plebiscito.aspx

That becomes extremely clear.   52.4% for not being a commonwealth.   4.1% for Independence.   You don't end up with a majority that way.

Throw Commonwealth and Statehood on a ballot by itself... and Commonwealth wins.

Which really, is what these votes should be for something as huge as this.   Rather then one poltiical party subverting the will of the majority by being tricky with the questions.

Truth is, if state proceedings went in off of that vote.   The majority of people in puerto rico would be unhappy.

So if anything, i'd say I care more for the 2 Million people who don't want to be a state, then the 1.7 Million who do.

Personally i'd prefer Puerto Rico be a state... but I respect the actual will of the people.

and quite honestly, Congress has said for decades it want's a super majority vote.  Which makes sense.   I mean think about it.  44.6% of a giantly tiered vote puts Puerto Rico as a state.

You can't vote out of being a state after that.  So they're stuck.  Even though very eaisly next year suddenly more people could be against statehood then for it.

60-75%+ is what should be required for statehood.

Shit otherwise Congress would of already acted.  US Republicans support Puerto Rican statehood and they have a majority in the house.

The Canadian mining corporations are just as evil though.

Ah right, but not in Canada I guess.

Another 10-15 years and Canada will have lost it's identity. Harper is making damn sure of that.

Agreed, as someone from the Vancouver area this really is something that I wish we had here. American prices even in bigger cities just seem more reasonable. Our prices are just insane given our population and the amount of land we have.

War.

Btw i smell a plot to maintain white majority in this land -_-