[L_F_Miranda]

Sonamabulo

Yes, I agree that the colony is administered politically like a state/ territory, but what did you expect? To be administered like a French over seas territory? Like a British one? Puerto Rico had to be administered like what Americans understood, an American territory/colony. Yes a lot of institutions trickled down, as expected, as The British did with their Indian Raj and the French with Algeria.

Despite this, during the first half century the Gringos administered us like an American Indian reservation with , neglect, massive poverty, and basically like the White Man's Burden. Ironically, Its wasn't until Puerto Ricans took the reins of local power that we actually pushed ahead.

To make a long story short, Yes I am pessimistic, but why not! What Luis Davila Colon has written in the initial article to this thread is enough to scare the wits out of any one. In fact this is what Faraon has been writing about for some time, but most of us don't pay attention. Nacionalista even mocks the article and said that who ever believes it has no education, Duhhhhhhhhh

About the Gringo pull out, its not my invention. There is a perception among many on the island that this might be happening. With the closing of Roosevelt Roads and the pull out from Vieques, with the abandonment of Pharmaceuticals and the ending of the 936 tax incentive program, many Puerto Ricans are in panic mode. Should they believe otherwise? Many are opting to move to the ghettos of Orlando, like if this will solve their problem.

Over all I truely believe our status problem might be tied up to what happens with Immigration reform in the United States.

IMIGRATION REFORM! Some might say, hey, we're not immigrants!

However today's New York Times, in an editorial titled, Immigration and the Candidates, says:

"What should be the role of immigrant labor in our country?"

"How does the country maximize its benefits and lessen its ill effects?"

"Once the border is fortified , what happens to the 12 million illegal immigrants already here?"

"Should they be expelled or allowed to assimilate?

"Most GOP candidates are tough, even the more reasonable Mike Huckabee now wants immediate expulsion within 120 days."

Most Democrats want a compromise, a road to citizenship.

However, where ALL candidates converge, Liberal and Conservative alike, is in ASSIMILATION!

They all say, "IMMIGRANTS MUST ASSIMILATE."

What does this mean?

For those Ricans Who still live in La-La land , Its the language dummies. IMMIGRANTS MUST LEARN ENGLISH!

Where does Puerto Rico fit into all this?

In all this immigration and anti-Hispanic hysteria enters, the PNP demanding Statehood, not asking , But DEMANDING, annexation via the Tennessee plan. Or better still, a future petition from 95% of Puerto Ricans who have just voted for Statehood via a two option plebiscite.

To Gringos, its a petition from a crime ridden, welfare adicted island, wanting to augment its federal transfer payments, pay little taxes via INCOME TAX CREDITS and keep its culture, meaning, refusing to get rid of its Spanish language!

Case closed, LOL