Puerto Rico 51st state?

I heard Glen Beck babbling about this yesterday, and i am confused on why offering Puerto Rico statehood is a bad thing? Or is this just more big government mumbo jumbo?

Will Puerto Rico Finally Become Our 51st State? -- Daily Intel

 

He's scared because most puerto ricans are very liberal, notice I said most.

 

That's not the problem at all. The problem is that PR votes every year or two on whether to become a state or not. The vote is always no because they want to remain a welfare state and not have to pay federal taxes. I say cut em loose.

 

It probably is a liberal apportionment issue for Beck, but I am unsure because I don't watch his program. Maybe he thinks the congress will find a way to circumvent some rules or something to expedite it. I would have to watch him to find out and I doubt that will happen. I think he is a little boring.

 

i agree.

a friend of greenies is married to a puerto rican woman. she grew up learning english in school, but their english teachers must be awful. her english is terrible and accent so thick i struggle to understand her. we both do. and in all the years i have known her and she has lived in the states, it has yet to get any better.

 

lol, I notice a strong disdain for hispanics in you amigo:hihi:


anto que todos llevarnos bien:hihi::hihi:

 

i know lots of puerto ricans, and recently dated a cute newyoriquan. red is correct that we might as well make them a state or cut them loose. PRicans themselves are pretty divided on this issue, with the smart ones wanting statehood.

also it should be noted that virtually all young puerto ricans speak english, except the very very stupid ones and a few old-timers.

 

It's not an issue of making them a state it's an issue of them repeatedly voting against becoming a state.