what will happen if the government in puerto rico loses control next week?
368322
nothing just go to sleep
147292
That depends. If there's a hurricane on the same day, Bush would show up a week later and therefore lose by default.
525962
Puerto Rico belongs to the USA but is not a state..it is considered a province( I believe)  In the 60's, all the countries were communist or a monarche.  I think all but Puerto Rico still is.  Therefore, since the countries were totalitarian in nature, the ppl fled to freedom.  The cities included Florida, NYC, CA and AZ...and by the way they are still coming but for different reasons even though the governments are still the same.
1086511
Puerto Rico has been debating state hood for a long time now.\nI don't know if I am for or against it. Right now they have the advantages of our government programs, but I don't believe they\nhave to contribute with taxes. It doesn't seem right. Either become a state or let them be on their own
331048
eye eye\n\nMcDonalds will be replaced by taco bells\n\nthe IRS will be going into overdrive\n\nEnglish will be a second language\n\nThe most popular name in America will be MAria and Jose\n\nAnd WHITE PEOPLE WILL BE IN THE MINORITY QUOTA!!!\n\nall the while, black people will still be hated (we can NEVER win) and I'm not pulling the race card, just the Mexian president has said some pretty nasty things about my homies.
474677
Puerto Ricons are great people.  I do not believe it would be to their advantage or best interest to become a state.
216107
no, it is in their best interests to be a state; however for various reasons in a recent vote they (narrowly) voted not to apply for statehood.\n\nas it stands puerto ricans are subject to US laws (they must pay taxes, they register for the draft, etc) but cannot participate in the making of those laws.  if puerto rico were to become a state, it would have 6 or 7 representatives in congress.  on the other hand, a study showed that under statehood puerto rico would lose 10-15% of it's economy and 50,000 to 100,000 jobs.  it's not an easy trade-off to make.\n\nhere are some facts related to the question of puerto rican statehood:\n\nhttp://www.englishfirst.org/puerto/puertofacts.htm\nhttp://ri.essortment.com/puertoricansta_rdla.htm\n\noverall i think that being relegated to second-hand citizenship is not worth the economic benefit, but it is ultimately up to the people of PR to decide what matters most to them.
182994
Forget FEMA, ... the debacle was that people in the gulf-coast actually thought that government would rescue them.   We will know better next time.  The government is completely broken.
161684
Most certainly but not in the near future.\n\nThe Commonwealth of Puerto Rico is located in the Caribbean Sea, about 1,000 mi east-southeast of Miami, Fla. A possession of the United States, it consists of the island of Puerto Rico plus the adjacent islets of Vieques, Culebra, and Mona. Puerto Rico has a mountainous, tropical ecosystem with very little flat land and few mineral resources.\n\nPuerto Rico's governor is elected directly for a four-year term. A bicameral legislature consists of a 27-member Senate and a 51-member House of Representatives, all elected for four-year terms. From 1940 to 1968, Puerto Rican politics was dominated by a party advocating voluntary association with the U.S. Since then, the New Progressive Party, a party favoring U.S. statehood, has won five of the last eight gubernatorial elections. Puerto Ricans have twice voted to determine their political status. In 1967, the outcome was Commonwealth 60%; statehood 39%; independence 1%. By 1993, Commonwealth dropped to 48.6%; statehood rose to 46.3%; independence polled 4.4%; and 0.6% of the ballots were blank or spoiled.\n\nThe Nov. 2, 2004, gubernatorial elections led to a two-month recount and a court challenge. On Jan. 2, 2005, Aníbal Acevedo Vilá of the Popular Democratic Party was declared governor. He received 48.4% of the vote, and his main challenger, Pedro Rossello of the New Progressive Party, 48.2%. Acevedo supports the existing U.S. territorial status of the island; Rossello supports statehood for Puerto Rico.\n\nPuerto Rico's political status has been an issue since the island was ceded by Spain after the U.S. victory in the Spanish-American War of 1898. Puerto Ricans were made U.S. citizens in 1917, but residents there have no right to vote in presidential elections or to send representatives to Congress.\n\nFew mainland Americans think very much about Puerto Rico. That gap in their attentions may end only when they wake up to discover that the flag has 51 stars.\n\nBecause of legislation now quietly wending its way through Congress with the support of the Republican leadership, decisions made on the island in the next year or so could have profound consequences for the future of Puerto Rico as well as for the United States as a whole.\n\nThe House of Representatives may vote as early as this week on a bill to set up a plebiscite on the island's political status. Passage of this act by both houses, plus the President's signature, would oblige the U.S. government to honor whichever of three options Puerto Rico's voters choose: maintaining the island's present commonwealth status, independence or entry into the Union as the 51st state\n\nStill there are many issues to be resolved. Language, federal welfare dependence, and others for which the US federal government doesn't care very much.
414177
more likely that they will lose their job as a result...
505592
I don't think so.  Puerto Rico's main issue revolves around that lack of a middle class.  Socioeconomic differences are of the hardest to resolve but I feel a political revolt is a more likely result.
103874
Since the ouster of Ferdinand Marcos the Philipines political landscape has been marked with instability -- i.e. coups and potential coups -- so this current episode seems par for the course.  Furthermore, martial law is never the "answer" when it comes to governance.  Democracy depends upon government respecting the will of the people, and unless the Philipine's armed forces get THAT message then instability will be all that that nation knows, at least for the foreseeable future.
1079656
Puerto Rico is in fact a US Colony.  The term Commonwealth is not mutually exclusive from the term Colony.  The statehood and pro-commonwealth movements account for around 95% of the population (1 to 1 ratio) and the independence movement is around 5%.  Puerto Ricans do not have the power to obtain either independence or statehood.  Any final decision will be in the hands of the US Congress.  I hope Puerto Rico becomes a state at one point in the future.  Although Puerto Ricans have the right to become independent, most of them do not want it.  In that respect, and if democracy prevails, Puerto Rico will not be independent.  Until we decide to change our status quo, the US legislators will go to the island to campaign and seem interested in our situation, and nothing important will happen.
875057
There would be utter chaos. Their government is not strong enough to support itself and there would be groups trying to overthrow it. It would just lead to more violence than there is now. This is just a big mess that the United States has gotten itself into. There is nothing more we can do there but if we pull out it would probably be worse than it was before we went in. There's just no answer for how to solve this problem.
963359
THE PEOPLE IN THE GOVERNMENT WOULD HAVE TO GO FIGHT
244178
speaking as someone who is from the Virgin islands and family in puerto Rico as of rite now no.  However there is legislation in place that will require it soon.  Even though both places are US territories.  It is suggested that you have one now but it is not necessary
281157
Puerto Rico is an island kid.