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Those of us who don't hate other nationalities, but love our own, also think it's a bad idea.
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Originally Posted by TigerLily24
Seriously, it’s a beautiful place filled with hard-working people who (would) contribute to the tax base.
The same can be said for a number of other countries as well. Should we annex them too? South Korea, for example, is a beautiful country filled with hard-working people. And, bonus, plenty of them already speak English!
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Originally Posted by TigerLily24
It has the only Rain Forest National Park which is very attractive to tourists.
I seriously doubt that the Nation of Puerto Rico would cut off access to American tourists, and the dollars that we bring. We'll still be able to visit the rain forest there.
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Originally Posted by TigerLily24
Finally, because the people are already American citizens and should have all of the benefits of same.
This one, I'll grant you that it's a factor to consider. I'm not sure what the best answer is on this one. But I still don't think that statehood is the answer.
Seriously, it’s a beautiful place filled with hard-working people who (would) contribute to the tax base.
It has the only Rain Forest National Park which is very attractive to tourists.
Finally, because the people are already American citizens and should have all of the benefits of same.
If the people were so hard-working it would already be prosperous.
A place doesn't have to be a state for tourists to visit.
I was part of the Army's relief efforts, and what we saw was all the supplies that we send, just sitting on the docks rotting...PR made no effort to get the supplies out to the people, their infrastructure is a total mess, and not because of the hurricane
Seriously, it’s a beautiful place filled with hard-working people who (would) contribute to the tax base.
It has the only Rain Forest National Park which is very attractive to tourists.
Finally, because the people are already American citizens and should have all of the benefits of same.
With so much talk about rising sea level due to global warming, does it even make sense to rebuild a damaged island that will be taken by the sea? Perhaps it would be better to just relocate the inhabitants that are left.
actually the Caribbean tectonic plate is rising as the South American plate is being pushed beneath the Caribbean plate causing it to rise
also the North American Tectonic plate is growing, moving west and slightly rising also (the NA plate was the fastest moving plate millions of years ago)
then this from wiki of the PR trench:
The Puerto Rico Trench is located at a boundary between two plates that pass each other along a transform boundary with only a small component of subduction. The Caribbean Plate is moving to the east while the North American Plate is moving to the west. The North American Plate is being subducted by the Caribbean Plate obliquely at the trench while to the southeast, the South American Plate is being more directly subducted along the Lesser Antilles subduction zone. This subduction zone explains the presence of active volcanoes over the southeastern part of the Caribbean Sea. Volcanic activity is frequent along the island arc southeast from Puerto Rico to the coast of South America.
Puerto Rico, the United States Virgin Islands, British Virgin Islands, and the Dominican Republic do not have active volcanoes; however, they are at risk from earthquakes and tsunamis. The Puerto Rico Trench is capable of producing earthquakes greater than magnitude 8.0.
the Island of PR is more likely to grow with the plate rising, than for the island to disappear
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Seriously, it’s a beautiful place filled with hard-working people who (would) contribute to the tax base.
It has the only Rain Forest National Park which is very attractive to tourists.
Finally, because the people are already American citizens and should have all of the benefits of same.
That said, how should the following info be dealt with, in your opinion?
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Originally Posted by Mr.Retired;
Puerto Rico is 70 billion in the crapper.
12% unemployment.
Basic services shutting down.
An average of one doctor per day leaving the island.
No nation will want to touch it with a 10 foot pole.
Time for the people to tighten their belt and come up with
a plan to pay off their debt.
The investors are going nowhere and
are willing to wait a long time to get paid back.
The US doesn't need to take that on just to get a tourist destination in return.
Cut PR loose. The place is negative asset. They take, take, take, but give hardly anything back.
PR residents do not pay Federal income taxes.
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