Posted on 04/28/2010 4:47:55 PM PDT by yoe
Last night (Tuesday) on his TV show, Glenn Beck dropped another bombshell — on Thursday, Congress will take up a bill to make Puerto Rico a state. Why is our Congress doing this now? Secretly? Quickly? If it hadn’t been for one of Beck’s “Refounders” (a Congressional insider), would we even know about this? Why is this important to you and me?
Well, the word is out, and my local 9-12/Tea party organization sent this out this morning. First thing to hit my mailbox, in fact…
There is a bill to make Puerto Rico a state. Again, they are trying to pull one over on us and on Puerto Ricans, who have consistently said they do not want to become a state. Read below for more information (from Eagle Forum). This was also discussed by Rep Tom Price on a conference call yesterday.
Please consider this:
* The U.S. would transform, overnight, into a bilingual nation. At least half of Puerto Ricans do not speak English, the language of our U.S. Constitution and founding documents. The Washington Times article, “Puerto Rican statehood,” analyzes all the implications of adding a foreign language-speaking state to the Union.
* It would bring immediate demands for massive federal spending. The average income of Puerto Ricans is less than half that of our poorest state, and infrastructure and the environment are far below American standards. Puerto Rico has a population with a median national income of $17,741, nearly a third of that for the U.S.
* Puerto Rico is already a democracy. Despite the bill’s deceptive title, Puerto Rico already has an elected government and exists as a self-governed commonwealth of the U.S.
* Statehood would give Puerto Rico more congressional representation than 25 of our 50 states! It would inevitably give Democrats two additional U.S. Senators and 6 to 8 additional Members of the House.
H.R. 2499 is stealth legislation designed to lead to the admission of Spanish-speaking Puerto Rico as the 51st state, thereby making us a de facto bilingual nation, like Canada. The U.S. Congress should not be forcing Puerto Ricans to vote on statehood, especially since the Puerto Rican people have rejected statehood three times since 1991!
No Member of Congress who describes himself as a limited government, fiscal conservative should be casting a YEA vote for H.R. 2499, as Puerto Rican statehood would cause an immediate increase in federal expenditures, particularly for taxpayer-funded welfare state services.
Sponsored by Puerto Rican delegate Pedro Pierluisi (D), the Puerto Rico Democracy Act (H.R. 2499) – which has reared its ugly head a number of times over the past few congresses but has yet to have any success – would require Puerto Ricans to hold a national referendum to decide if they want Puerto Rico to remain a self-governing U.S. commonwealth, or become the 51st state.
The referendum would be set up as two plebiscites which would effectively deceive Puerto Ricans into voting for statehood. In the first round of votes, the Puerto Rican people would be given the choice between remaining a U.S. territory and “pursuing a different political status.” If the majority votes to maintain the status quo, this bill would require that Puerto Rico vote on this same issue every eight years.
If the majority votes for “different status,” a second round of votes would be held where Puerto Ricans would choose either statehood or independence-the status quo of “U.S. territory” would not even be an option! In other words, the two ballots would be rigged to favor the outcome of statehood, overriding the wishes of Americans and Puerto Ricans who want to maintain the current commonwealth status.
* Contact your US congressmen AND (Take quick action here)
Open borders, felons voting,Puerto Ricans voting...
Totalitarians need votes NOW, November is coming fast.
Not bloody likely for a myriad of reasons.
Beck had an awesome program on this today. Would add 12M voters, 2 senators and 6 house members, all presumably Dimwits. Add to that 1 house member - another Dimwit - from Washington and allow the 4M felons to vote and that’s a whole lot of folks! This bill cannot pass!
The congress of the USA is full to the brim with treasonous rats.
The progressive party that’s pushing it in Puerto Rico sounds like a wing of the SEIU. They want social justice and their “fair share” of federal funds and programs.
The Obama regime may very well reach 57 by the time its work is done.
Slime.
Too fast for them to get away with any of this treason.
Oh, and on top of that, they would be getting SS and welfare and a bunch of other benefits. Most Puerto Ricans are poor.
We need to find a new Anglo state to offset this. How about the Isle of Wight?
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Its a Catholic Nation.
It will be a welcome addition to our conservative base.
An easier deal would be to CARVE OUT A NEW STATE called "CHICAGO" from the existing state of Illinois.
Imagine that ~ Two new REPUBLICAN SENATORS!
I saw this tonight & it made me sick. The majority of people in that country don’t want it...but the new progressive party does. Hmmm, I guess that was just another piece to the puzzle that was put in place before puppet odumbo took the stage...
Now he thinks he’ll be able to have all those hispanic votes to keep him in office - no wonder he hasn’t let up on his tyranny!
been there and it’;s very nice but small
OZ or NZ
can you imagine if every conservative moved out of the blue states.
millions moving from NY,MA,VT,NH,CT,NJ,IL,MN, and they all moved to NM,CO,AZ,FL,VA,NC,UT,ID,
the north would go to hell as there would be hardly any one left to pay their welfare.
no one has mentioned this but if he got his own way you can count on bozo and his rats trying to do away with term limits for him
also move out of the west coast.
millions upon millions of taxpaying conservatives moving out of liberal hell holes
Then the homosexuals, liberals, illegals etc will be sent up north after the south, midwest and AK all move away from their liberal utopia
OK not going ot happen but maybe we could get as many conservatives moving out of liberal hell holes and let those states go to hell
Congress can’t make Puerto Rico a State unless the people of Puerto Rico ask to become a State. Watch the Democrats attempt to bribe Puerto Ricans.
Well stated! I don’t put anything past this evil that is emanating from the WH!
I think that’s already happening in California.
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