ARE RICANS aMERICANS OR NOT??

[papasmerf]

If not will they surrender Government aide??

 

[fuji]

If not will they surrender Government aide??

05:10 AM nonsensical post.... Out on a bender again?

 

[irlandais9000]

If not will they surrender Government aide??

I'm going to guess what you're asking is why don't Puerto Ricans give up government aid to prove they are Americans. To which I reply, why are you singling out Puerto Ricans? As if no other state or territory receives aid? Sorry, your question is irrelevant as stated.

 

[rld]

They are plenty American, despite the fact they don't get to vote for the President.

 

[Aardvark154]

El Presidente Obama was in Puerto Rico today indirectly seeking Puerto Rican votes in Florida where that vote has now largely become "swing" rather than "safely Democrat."

Puerto Rico really has the best of two worlds - the benefits of U.S. Citizenship and almost none of the drawbacks.

 

[irlandais9000]

You're leaving out the key point: they don't have the right to vote for any US office.

 

[Asterix]

If not will they surrender Government aide??

They're holding a government aide hostage? I knew Obama shouldn't have gone down there.

 

[WoodPeckr]

You're leaving out the key point: they don't have the right to vote for any US office.

This is the GOP Plan now...keeping folks from voting!
If GOPers had their way what happens in PR would be extended to other States...:Eek:

 

[fuji]

You're leaving out the key point: they don't have the right to vote for any US office.

They have the same rights as any other US Citizen. Someone born in California who does not currently reside in one of the 50 states + DC also has no right to vote either while a Puerto Rican who moves to one of the 50 states does.

 

[Asterix]

Someone born in California who does not currently reside in one of the 50 states + DC also has no right to vote either while a Puerto Rican who moves to one of the 50 states does.

Forgetting about the expatriates who do have a right to vote, aren't you?

 

[oldjones]

Let's imagine papa meant Puerto Ricans; the answer is no. They are a colonial possession of the United States, seized from Spain by the US, along with other colonies, as spoils of the Spanish-American War. Like almost all colonies, they cost the imperial treasury more than they return, but perhaps less than they might produce if granted independence. (See American Revolution) Arrangements like Commonwealth status are attempts by all parties to have the best of all worlds.

Like most political arrangements in democracies.

But then he might have been asking a spelling question about ameRICANS

 

[Aardvark154]

Someone born in California who does not currently reside in one of the 50 states + DC also has no right to vote.

True insofar as it goes. This is a matter of semantics being important and the critical word is "reside." In a political sense being a "resident" of a state does not have to mean that you live there, it rather has to do with the concept of domicile. Hence one can be living in the U.K. and still vote absentee in the state of which one is domiciled.

 

[Aardvark154]

Let's imagine papa meant Puerto Ricans; the answer is no. They are a colonial possession of the United States, seized from Spain by the US, along with other colonies, as spoils of the Spanish-American War. Like almost all colonies, they cost the imperial treasury more than they return, but perhaps less than they might produce if granted independence. (See American Revolution) Arrangements like Commonwealth status are attempts by all parties to have the best of all worlds.

Like most political arrangements in democracies.

The People of Puerto Rico have had the opportunity to vote several times as to whether they desire a) independence b) statehood c) to continue with the current arrangement to date they have repeatedly voted to keep the current arrangement (and independence has consistently received the fewest number of votes of the three options).

 

[WoodPeckr]

But then he might have been asking a spelling question about ameRICANS

It was early in the morning and perhaps the OP was not fully awake yet....:eyebrows:

 

[oldjones]

The People of Puerto Rico have had the opportunity to vote several times as to whether they desire a) independence b) statehood c) to continue with the current arrangement to date they have repeatedly voted to keep the current arrangement (and independence has consistently received the fewest number of votes of the three options).

One can well imagine the unattractiveness of independence; being dependent looks like a good deal, until the day you start to feel the heavy hand of your colonial masters weighs more than their handouts.