by Michael Snyder, End Of The American Dream:
In recent days there have been a lot of prominent voices in the media that have been boldly proclaiming that the western hemisphere is “our hemisphere” and that it is our right to exercise dominion over it. But I don’t think that they have really thought this through. In order to have the right to control what goes on in a particular piece of territory, the United States must own it first. The territories that we own fall into two very specific categories. Our 50 states fall into the first category, and each state has certain rights and privileges. The second category is made up of “U.S. territories”. There are five permanently inhabited U.S. territories (Puerto Rico, Guam, the U.S. Virgin Islands, American Samoa, and the Northern Mariana Islands), and there are a number of uninhabited Pacific islands and atolls known as the U.S. Minor Outlying Islands. Needless to say, U.S. territories do not have the same rights and privileges as the 50 states.
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If the U.S. were to suddenly take ownership of another country in the western hemisphere, it would either become a state or a territory.
For a moment, let’s imagine an exceedingly unlikely scenario in which Cuba, Canada, Greenland and Venezuela all agree to become U.S. states.
They would each be entitled to two U.S. Senators, and so the total number of U.S. Senators would increase to 58.
For those that are unaware, the populations of Cuba, Canada, Greenland and Venezuela all lean very heavily toward one end of the political spectrum.
So if all four of those nations suddenly became U.S. states, it would shift the balance of power in the U.S. Senate dramatically to the left on a permanent basis.
If you are a conservative, why would you want that?
Okay, so let’s imagine a scenario in which Cuba, Canada, Greenland and Venezuela all agree to become U.S. territories.
I have no idea why they would want to do that, but let’s imagine that it actually became a reality.
All of a sudden, we would have tens of millions of additional people that U.S. taxpayers would be responsible for.
Since we are already $38,000,000,000,000 in debt, we simply cannot afford to do that.
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