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Kasz216 on 18 January 2014
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Insekticida said:
Kasz216 said:
Insekticida said:
Actually, why doesn't the US take care of it's colonies first and stops treating them as second class citizens?


... because the US doesn't really have any colonies.

Unless you mean like... Guam and Puerto Rico.

Who actually, becoming states first requires them to vote for it.

 

Which, they won't because quite honestly, the state they're in right now is way better.

 

Tons of federal money and almost all the benefits of being a US citizen while paying zero federal taxes.

 

The only major downside is they can't vote in a lot of federal elections... and considering the assholes running....

I'd give up my vote for a tax free year in a heart beat.


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.