Glenn Beck is talking about this right now on the air. I’ll add that video when it’s available.
The Heritage Foundation published this article yesterday.
According to Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-MD), the House will vote on H.R. 2499, the Puerto Rico Democracy Act, later this week. The legislation provides Puerto Rico a two stage voting process and makes some non-resident Puerto Ricans eligible to vote on Puerto Rican statehood. This legislation has rigged the process in favor of making Puerto Rico the 51st state and is not a fair way to force statehood on a Commonwealth whose people may not want it. Furthermore, this may be an expensive proposition for the American people who are already on the hook for approximately $12.9 trillion in national debt.
This bill attempts to rig the voting process and denies the American people a real say on the issue of whether they want to allow Puerto Rico to be granted statehood. The fact of the matter is that Puerto Ricans have rejected statehood numerous times and this bill seems to have been written in a way to fast track statehood without a majority of Puerto Ricans favoring the idea. Furthermore, the people of the United States should be allowed a vote on whether they want to admit Puerto Rico as a new state. If the people of Puerto Rico can vote, the people of the United States should have a vote… .
Basically, what they’ll do is rig the questions so that most Puerto Ricans wind up voting for statehood, especially because American citizens with Puerto Rican heritage can vote. There are more Puerto Rican-Americans than there are citizens of Puerto Rico and Puerto Rican-Americans are in favor of statehood for Puerto Rico. Once Puerto Rico becomes a state, there’s no doubt the Puerto Ricans will vote for the Democrats. Their national median income is about a third what it is in the US, so we’ll be adding about 4 million Puerto Ricans to the welfare rolls.
Here’s what Glenn Beck had to say about it on his radio show today, via Breitbart.
Update: The Right Scoop has video of Glenn Beck’s show on Fox News Wednesday night. It’s a must see!
It’s a scam for the Dems to retain power.
If PR wanted to be a state, it would have happened years ago.
Who in PR has gotten paid off?
What hand outs are promised?
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I agree just another scam to get votes. The dems are going to need every vote they can cause there going down hard november, especially if they pass this cap and trade bill.
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The PR situation is even worse than we know. Just last month the RINO governor of PR declared all their birth certificates as invalid. The citizens now have to reapply for new birth certificates. The fraudulent excuse he gave was that identity theft was rampant. How convienient that he did this right before a vote of the people for statehood would occur. Could it possibly be because they voted it down three times before? Could he possibly be stacking the deck so they can defeat the will of the people by not allowing them to vote? Could it possibly be that he is also opening the door for millions of illegals to now apply for free birth certificates? I think it is possible.
He is one of the worst RINO’s than we have ever seen here in the states. He supports everything obamacorn is about and is vocal about it. He wants to help obama get a second term, and this is all part of his plan.
I cannot believe that I am the only one talking about this, but here is the link:
In March 2010 Puerto Rico declared all their birth certificates invalid!!!!!
Voter fraud & illegals get free birth certificates. You betcha.
http://bit.ly/degYLn
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I’m a Puerto rican american and I do not want PR to become a state!! If you ask me, to become a state mean eventually losing all that you are. You identity!!! Say no to statehood for Puerto rico and say yes to an enhanced Commonwealth status!! This we deserve! Statehood —- Hell NO!!! Most of us are not black or European white. Becoming the first hispanic state would be a joke!!
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