Will the USA ever have a 51st state?

jhuskey

It was a closer game than I thought I guess we will see who is proclaimed "Numero UNO" tonight.
I am now looking forward to the NFL playoffs and will be pulling for the Colts since the Titans can't wipe their own butts this year.
I don't really care who wins tonight.

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jhuskey

You are reading my mind, I want to see New England devastated. Hopefully Manning's arm will stay hot and he can make it through the first round this week to get a little revenge.

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LottomagicZ4941

So who would they want as a 51st state?

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Ruedy

The USA already has a 51st state. It's called England.

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Espada9

Good one, but I don't think the UK could be considered a 51st state, more like that old drunk uncle who has a loud mouth but no teeth left.

Espada9

Thanks for the advise, actually I work for a British global engineering firm (AMEC) that has recently tried to break into the US Biotech/Pharmaceutical industry, so far I love it, no one bothers me, I’ve only met two people from our office on the East Coast (sorry, they’re both Americans). Aside from my project manager (who is also American) I’m left to do my job, which keeps me here in the US.

Your view of the US economy is very distorted, NONE of my associated wants to work in your shitty country because the wages and conditions SUCK.

There are few better places to start a business that the US and we still make things, what do you make in the UK? YOUR economy sucks along with your products, work ethic, innovation and ideas and weather, oh yea, your food is shitty too!

Will you EVER get over your America envy?

Where is your world leading Biotech market? I thought you’re all so smart? Superior?
Well? Wake up out of the 18th century, you suck!

artemidorus

He's not in the UK, he's in Ireland.

maddox300

Since Our Capitol District, the district of Columbia, Home of Washington, DC is the only part of the USA that has no vote in Congress, and not even the right to control its own municipal government (which is funded at the discretion of Congress), It is obvious that DC should be our 51st State, or should at the very least be made apart of the state of Maryland so that the US citizens who live there can be represented in the House of Representatives. The reasons this wasn't done long ago are:

1. That it would instantly become the first state in the union to have a majority black population. (There are many whites living in the Capitol district, but a significant number of those are federal civil servants, legal residents of a state where they can vote in Congressional elections.)

2. That it takes a supermajority of Congress to approve admission to the Union of a state.
3. That it would have two US senators who would doubtless be Democrats, at least in the current political party configuration.

The only time when this could have been easily achieved was just after the Civil War, when the radical Republicans had control of the whole government, and the emancipation amendments were added to the Constitution. But they had enough on their hands trying to administer the secessionist states and pay for the war. It is unfortunate that today's radical Republicans have NONE of the principled attitude to government that the 19th Century ones were so lampooned for in the newspapers of the time. Principles are just pawns to these current players. Party of Lincoln? No. Maybe the party of Rutherford B. Hayes (Look him up. good google words for him: "Samuel Tilden," "Tammany Hall," 1876.)

basso97

Did you know that Texas has a right to split into 5 states any time they want to?

It was part of the treaty when texas became a state. Thay could become the 51, 52, 53 and 54th states and Pickup 8 more Senators.

http://www.lsjunction.com/docs/annex.htm

FredC

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Not more Jewish cattle barons?

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limerickman

Hmm.
I know who AMEC are : at one time I worked in the project management/constructional engineering sector when AMEC, Trafalgar House,
Costain and the like, were prominent.
Didn't know that they moved in to the biotech industry.
Have ya got your facts right about AMEC ?
I couldn't imagine AMEC moving from a sector of all engineering projects, in to
biotech industry.
Spade - are you waffling again, trying to impress us ?

As regards conditions here : the Irish economy is booming.
We earn higher wages per head of population than your lot, we have more graudates per head of population than your lot, we're also in the top ten category for standards of living in the world.
Seems to me that you need to brush up on your "facts".