Puerto Rico is Crazy: Votes to Become a State

Puerto Rican voters must be crazy. The United States is more than $16 trillion in debt. They say we are heading off the financial cliff if we haven't done so already. Unfunded liabilities total over $100 trillion. Liberty and freedom is being regulated away at a record pace. As some states are considering secession, Puerto Rico wants to join.

For some reason the people of Puerto Rico feels it's a sound idea to become part of this mess as the 51st state in these United States.

The BBC reports:


Voters in Puerto Rico have supported a non-binding referendum to become a full US state.

The measure will require approval from the US Congress, but President Barack Obama has said he will respect the vote.

The island is currently a US territory, which uses the dollar and whose citizens travel on US passports.

But it does not return senators to the US Congress and is represented in Washington by a non-voting delegate.

Almost 80% of the island's electorate took part in the referendum, the fourth in the past 45 years.

With almost all the votes counted, almost 54% voted to change the island's relationship with the US.

Or maybe they aren't so crazy after all. Statehood means this poor island could benefit from Obama's redistribution of wealth desires as he courts votes for his successor. It will last a few years...