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It is about time for Puerto Rico to either become a state or go their own way. I don't think they are satisfied with how they are treated by the rest of the US, and I don't think they want to pay federal income taxes either.
But they would benefit from having real representation in Congress as well.
Or they could be independent and chart their own course.
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SGT Roberto Mendoza-Diaz
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1SG (Join to see) I stand corrected; sorry for calling you dumb.
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SGT Roberto Mendoza-Diaz - Out of curiousity, what do you think should happen with PR? I've seen and heard a pretty even split between status quo, statehood, and independence.
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SGT Roberto Mendoza-Diaz - I think so too.
And this should have been remedied long ago. I figure that if PR is American enough to draft their young men for war since 1917, they should be represented appropriately in the US Government - not with a "delegate" to the House, but the two or three Representatives and two Senators they should have.
Also, it is far less likely that the response to Maria and subsequent natural disasters would be as half-assed as it was. I heard that they recently found warehouses of FEMA supplies that went undistributed. That is pretty much inexcusable. The only "legitimate" reason I can think of for that is confusion over language barrier. More likely, it was deliberately squirreled away for later sale for profit or just general incompetence. I don't buy the excuse that it was mostly the fault of local governance either. They were surely a part of things, but even the most incompetent or corrupt individual has to respond to the needs of the citizenry in a crisis or people start looking too closely.
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SGT David A. 'Cowboy' Groth
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Thank you for the great history share brother David
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Lt Col John (Jack) Christensen
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Thanks for the history share.
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