TeleKat
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What gun control ideas do you support?
None.
What gun control ideas do you support?
PR's vote overwhelmingly with liberals and democrats---so I'm sure you'd be all for it.
Puerto Rico, I feel, would be more of a liability than an asset. More Federal aid coming in than jobs and production coming out. Let them stay a territory like the Virgin Islands and Guam.
Are you not aware that she is actually a lesbian?
Sure, I guess.
But why you make a comic book company a state is beyond me.
PR's vote overwhelmingly with liberals and democrats---so I'm sure you'd be all for it.
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And why is it necessary that they have representation?
Perhaps the OP and many of his advocates are Black Supremacists that know DC is majority Black and very liberal and won't admit the very reason they are wanting statehood is to increase (unfairly) Black Power?
They're citizens of the United States of America.
By that metric there are a significant numbers of red states who deserve to lose the privilege of being a state and become relegated to territorial status. Just sayin'
and they knew that they weren't going to have representation since 1801, as that's what happens during cession. Its not a shock when someone lives or moves to DC, its common knowledge.
But for some reason, people have lived there for 200 years, and the population continues to grow.
How, by any metric would the US benefit, economically, culturally or otherwise by allowing Puerto Rico in as a state?
Was is your end goal here?
What's the benefit to allowing New Mexico to stay?
There's a lot of DC residents who don't have the resources to move out, but that's not really the road I want to go down.
The basic point is that you don't get relegated to less rights than everyone else because of where you live. The whole thing, as we've seen again and again in this thread, is that you can't give people rights and representation because they might vote a way you don't like.
They're citizens of the United States of America.
And with that you smear all on the right with the usual cries of racism and fear of libruls. Nice piece of work, there.
That's all we need two crackhead Senators and a couple of crackhead Congressmen.
BTW: Of the 645,000 DC residents, how many actually pay individual income taxes ?
PR's vote overwhelmingly with liberals and democrats---so I'm sure you'd be all for it.......
And why is it necessary that they have representation?
And why is it necessary that they have representation?
I was referring to some of the posts on this thread which used knee jerk (You can't change the Constitution!) and racist arguments for opposing DC statehood, not talking about "all on the right.". Here's the most recent racist one:
Here's a fear of "libruls" post.
Declaration of Independence
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed,.."
which includes this complaint about the British rule
"imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:.."
14th Amendment
Section 1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws....
15th Amendment
Section 1. The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.
19th amendment
The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.
Representation is one of the foundations of this country. It was the lack of representation and a voice that was a main reason for the American Revolution. Ever heard of the Boston Tea Party?
I was referring to some of the posts on this thread which used knee jerk (You can't change the Constitution!) and racist arguments for opposing DC statehood, not talking about "all on the right.". Here's the most recent racist one:
Here's a fear of "libruls" post.
How about we not outlaw people from living in certain areas of the country and just make DC a state? Why is that such a big deal to you?
No but I would support DC residents the option of choosing between being legal citizens of Virginia, Maryland or the state of their birth for the purposes of voting for potus, us senators and governor.