We have 2 territories here in down unda land. They both get represented the same as a state. One of them is where the federal government is housed. I'm guessing that because we're dirty furriners it doesn't impress
Consolidate North and South Dakota into ONE state: Dakota (its combined population would be well under two million people) and make DC a state, keeping the state total at fifty.
Generally speaking, they shared the common opinion that the Romans were to be extravagantly admired and everything Roman was perfect, but they also felt they had to reach that far back in history to find an example of the kind of representative body they were trying to set up.
I don’t know how they’d organize such a thing, but it would certainly be in keeping in the spirit of the Constitution if Washington DC residents could go on a federal tax strike. No representation? Fine, but no taxes either.
He's very smart and very well educated. He's like Ted Cruz who can recite Supreme Court case info from memory for hours. They're just slimy con men who try to appeal to Gomer and Cletus out where the sound of banjos brings worried looks.
He might be well-educated, but that doesn't necessarily make him smart. I don't think you can call a person that believes the things that Tom Cotton believes "smart" in any way, shape, or form.
"Of the minimal number of voters who participated, 97.18% chose statehood, 1.50% favored independence and 1.32% chose to maintain the commonwealth status."
That article does point out that
"Turnout was 23%, a historical failure in a territory where voting turnout usually hovers around 80%.[10] A boycott of the vote was led by the citizenry at large, citing discontent over never-ending non-binding referendums, and protesting Ricardo Rosselló's pro-statehood administration's choice to spend public funds in subsidizing this vote when the island was in the midst of a devastating fiscal crisis and battered by the imposed austerity measures of a non-elected fiscal control board regarded as the height of colonial imposition."
Nothing about that turnout precludes it being used as a basis for going forward with statehood. The real reason PR isn't a state right now is the fucking GOP-held Senate.
We have 2 territories here in down unda land. They both get represented the same as a state. One of them is where the federal government is housed. I'm guessing that because we're dirty furriners it doesn't impress
Consolidate North and South Dakota into ONE state: Dakota (its combined population would be well under two million people) and make DC a state, keeping the state total at fifty.
Generally speaking, they shared the common opinion that the Romans were to be extravagantly admired and everything Roman was perfect, but they also felt they had to reach that far back in history to find an example of the kind of representative body they were trying to set up.
Poor Republicans....so much losing just around the corner.
Desperate but okay.
I don’t know how they’d organize such a thing, but it would certainly be in keeping in the spirit of the Constitution if Washington DC residents could go on a federal tax strike. No representation? Fine, but no taxes either.
I like the idea of DC statehood. Republicans don't because that will mean two US Senate seats for Democrats.
He's very smart and very well educated. He's like Ted Cruz who can recite Supreme Court case info from memory for hours. They're just slimy con men who try to appeal to Gomer and Cletus out where the sound of banjos brings worried looks.
He might be well-educated, but that doesn't necessarily make him smart. I don't think you can call a person that believes the things that Tom Cotton believes "smart" in any way, shape, or form.
Not true. From Wikipedia on the 2017 referendum:
"Of the minimal number of voters who participated, 97.18% chose statehood, 1.50% favored independence and 1.32% chose to maintain the commonwealth status."
That article does point out that
"Turnout was 23%, a historical failure in a territory where voting turnout usually hovers around 80%.[10] A boycott of the vote was led by the citizenry at large, citing discontent over never-ending non-binding referendums, and protesting Ricardo Rosselló's pro-statehood administration's choice to spend public funds in subsidizing this vote when the island was in the midst of a devastating fiscal crisis and battered by the imposed austerity measures of a non-elected fiscal control board regarded as the height of colonial imposition."
Nothing about that turnout precludes it being used as a basis for going forward with statehood. The real reason PR isn't a state right now is the fucking GOP-held Senate.
Yes, in a custom designed coffin, I read.
I prefer the district become a county in Maryland.
IIRC, North Carolina closed all of it's gold mines and caol mines are declining, so Sen Tillis and Buss shouldn't have a vote in the Senate.
What and lose the colonies?
Recently I have been hoping Alberta would start annexing.
According to a piece from the US Census (20180, whites will be a minority in the US in 2045.
Fetch my knitting!