The United States doesn't own Puerto Rico. The United States Taxpayers
own the property our bases are on, but Puerto Rico is an unincorporated territory that could unilaterally declare its independence or be given its independence unilaterally by the U.S. Congress at any time.
Puerto Rico is way closer to being an independent country than it is to being a state.
I believe that the $18.8 billion plus in U.S. Taxpayer's hand-outs to the ingrates in Puerto rico should be stopped immediately.
hand-out: 1. CHARITABLE GIFT something such as money or food given as charity to somebody in need.
Encarta World English Dictionary 1999
Puerto Rico has never given the USA anything of equal value in return for all the $100's of billions in charitable hand-outs we've lavished on the residents of the island.
Never more than 46.49% of the residents of Puerto Rico have ever voted for statehood even when as many as 75% of them were collecting Food Stamps and they accounted for 10% of all of the Food Stamps dispenced by the U.S. Taxpayers.
Here's a brief History of all of the murder and mayhem committed by Puerto Rican Terrorists since 1936.
Puerto Rico National History
Here's some of the low-lites:
1950 - Puerto Rican terrorists tried to assassinate former President Harry S. Truman in Washington.
1954 - PR terrorists opened fire in the U.S. House of Representatives wounding 5 Congressmen.
1975 - PR terrorists killed 4 and wounded 50 with a bomb in a restaurant in NYC.
1981 - PR terrorists blew up 11 jet fighters belonging to the Puerto Rico National Guard near San Juan.
1981 - PR terrorists killed one man with a bomb in the Kennedy Airport.
? - PR terrorists machine gun a group of American servicemen standing at a bus stop killing one.
2001 - 4 PR terrorists hurl Molotov Cocktails at a Naval convoy on Vieques.
Over the years, Puerto Rican terrorists have planted over 130 bombs across the United States.
Who in their right mind would be for making a state out of an island like that?
Good Lord! Are you really telling me that Puerto Rico is worthless because a few of its millions of people have been terrorists? I can't imagine how much time it would take to document each and every act of murder committed by people born in the States, but I certainly don't view any of the states as worthless. If you looked at a list documenting every act of murder, rape, and child molestation committed by Americans born in the States you'd have to also ask "Who in their right mind would be for living in a country like that?"
For crying out loud. Is this the attitude you have about Iraq as well? Let's just leave that country in the hands of Saddam since after all there have been some terrorist attacks carried out by Iraqis, and there are a lot of poor people there that are going to need hand-outs. Why waste money feeding them, and why waste American blood liberating them? It's a waste of time for a worthless endeavor, right? Oh, wait. That would leave that pesky WMD problem. I know, we'll just bomb the entire country, civilians and all. If some of them are terrorists, the whole country must be rotten to the core.
I'm asking you for the last time (because I don't intend to respond to you again) to please stop lumping us all into one group. I can only imagine how you must feel about the black community.
At least with current events as they are, now all Americans are beginning to get a taste of what it's like to be looked down on by people who don't even know you. Maybe a lesson will be learned.
I guess youhave your mind made up and nothing that can be discussed with you willpenetrate your mind set. But in the same way that there have been terrorist oin PR the stated had to endure the Black Panthers, and what was that group that kidnaped Patricia Hearts and so on. I tell you moronic behavior cross cultures and frontiers. But I guess that when you need to feel superior putting others down then it won't matter the arguments. The matter have been set for you long time ago and it has very little to do with reasoning.