[Teófilo]

Blunders. Typos. Mine.

[Teófilo]

PING!

[Clemenza]

1. Americans would neverwant a state where Spanish is the FIRST LANGUAGE, let alone one where most of the inhabitants speak broken English.

2. Then there is the fact that the majority islanders receive food stamps.

PR should throw the corrupt punetas of both parties (statehood and commonwealthers) into the Carribbean and give up their ghetto Caribbean Spanish. ;-)

[PJ-Comix]

Puerto Rico has been a United States territory for more than a century...

Only a territory until 1952. A COMMONWEALTH since then.

[JRios1968]

Let's clean our own house in order before we petition for admission into the Union or else, let's be prepared for a rejection.

I hate to say it, but you're 100% right. Unfortunately for the island, a vast majority of those of us who are in a position to do something positive for the island have already voted with our feet and left. I fear that those who are left are unwilling to make the changes that are sorely needed.