Puerto Rico status referendum - June 11

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Yes, let's take a state in the midst of a financial meltdown.  Nope.

To be clear, if it passes we should let them in and respect the will of the people.  It just will be a disaster.

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Guam, NMI, and maybe Wake Island can become states.  The others - not ready.

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DC should not be a state. Give its population to Maryland or something, but cities should not be entire states.

You know, there are good arguments to be made about why D.C. should not be a state, but this incredibly arbitrary reason is not one of them. Why does the population density of a certain area disqualify it from being a state?

It would be government redundancy.  A waste of money.

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Well, guess they'll be voting again next year.  What a waste of money.  Puerto Rico needs to get their own house in order.  Bernie Sanders democrats would be crazy to support brining in a new poor stats when we cant even take care of Mississippi.

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Well, this is obviously DOA in Congress, which is sad, since Puerto Ricans are Americans, and yet many members of Congress can easily just ignore that because... reasons.

The goal should be to make this as big a political issue as possible. If it's really DOA (which I'm not entirely convinced it is) we need to make it clear how racist the Republicans are being.

As well as the disgustingly racist 77% of Puerto Rican voters who did not vote for statehood.  They must be exposed.

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You really think an issue this massive should be decided based off a non-binding referendum that 22% of the voters participated in and even less voted yes for?

I know Democrats are desperate for ways to make poor whites irrelevant, but this is just sad.

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You really think an issue this massive should be decided based off a non-binding referendum that 22% of the voters participated in and even less voted yes for?

I know Democrats are desperate for ways to make poor whites irrelevant, but this is just sad.

Well, 78% of the population do not care enough either way to vote. Of the people that actually care, 97% want statehood, therefore, statehood should be granted ASAP.

When Jerry Brown was reelected in 2014, there was only 30% turnout...does that make his second term invalid?

If Jerry Brown was going to become the 51st state, yeah I would say it's invalid.

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I thought about it long and hard today.  Puerto Rico should become a state.  America is a great country, we should embrace the fact that Puerto Ricans love us so much.  We will benefit as much as they will.  They just need to start speaking English.