OT: Strange future for down-under?

geoschmo · #1 July 21st, 2003, 02:51 PM

You all do realize that the USA has no interest in taking any of you in as new states don't you? We want to sell you our goods and services, exploit your natural resources, send our coporations over to set up sweat shops, and finance it all by loaning you back your own money at interest. All the while we will be secretly replacing your own indiginous culture with our special blend of freeze-dried pop-culture. To do all this we need you to officially maintain your status as an independant nation. Allowing you to join us as a state would give you too much protection and equality under our laws, and we can't have that can we?

Geoschmo

[ July 21, 2003, 13:53: Message edited by: geoschmo ]

Erax · #2 July 21st, 2003, 10:07 PM

Awwwwwwwwwwww.....

Narrew · #3 July 21st, 2003, 10:50 PM

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Originally posted by Thermodyne:
But we�ll keep the state quarter people busy

HAHA, I like that one, though I disagree about the addition of more states other than the comment on DC, US Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico. As I think about it, after Castro, Cuba could though I wouldn't think it would happen, but if it did, the cuban's would know real freedom.

Sinapus · #4 July 21st, 2003, 11:47 PM

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Originally posted by TerranC:

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Originally posted by geoschmo:
You know it just occured to me Australia can't be the 51st state anyway. That one is slated for Iraq. Australia can be number 52 though.

No no no...

51st state - Puerto Rico

Hate to break this to you, but statehood has been put up to a vote in Puerto Rico. They said "no". (Same with independence.)

TerranC · #5 July 22nd, 2003, 02:12 AM

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Originally posted by Sinapus:
Hate to break this to you, but statehood has been put up to a vote in Puerto Rico. They said "no". (Same with independence.)

Umm, it was a joke. It wasn't meant to be a real comment.

Thermodyne · #6 July 23rd, 2003, 01:26 AM

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Originally posted by TerranC:

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Originally posted by Sinapus:
Hate to break this to you, but statehood has been put up to a vote in Puerto Rico. They said "no". (Same with independence.)

Umm, it was a joke. It wasn't meant to be a real comment.

Statehood would be up to them, but independance would be decided here in Washington. They will get it, even if they don't want it.

Sinapus · #7 July 22nd, 2003, 07:32 PM

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Originally posted by Thermodyne:

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Originally posted by TerranC:

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Originally posted by Sinapus:
Hate to break this to you, but statehood has been put up to a vote in Puerto Rico. They said "no". (Same with independence.)

Umm, it was a joke. It wasn't meant to be a real comment.
Statehood would be up to them, but independance would be decided here in Washington. They will get it, even if they don't want it.

Actually, the plebescite in 1967 had three options: remain a Commonwealth, become a State, or become an independent nation.

Independence got about 1% of the vote.

(Hm. Looks like there was another vote in 1991 where commonwealth status won again, but by a smaller margin than in the previous one. Statehood was 2nd place.)

So that's at least two instances where the choice was put to a vote.