Quote Originally Posted by yebo View Post
if the philippines was made the 51st state filipinos in the islands would already be in the minority. almost everyone would have gone to the US "mainland" already and majority of the people in the "PI" would be whites who moved here. the other half of the population will be a mix of ethnic pinoys, chinese, vietnamese, cambodians, indians, burmese, etc etc, the "PI" thus becoming a hot bed of illegal immigration to the US because the PI is US. half the US navy would be of pinoy descent. the catholic church would not be as powerful, even almost insignificant. yes, we won't have a problem with china's nine dash line. no npa's either, they would have been wiped out decades ago. US made cars will not cost so much. we'd have a hundred malampayas in the west philippine sea because there will be a hundred oil wells drilled every year in palawan alone (instead of the present 2 or 1 or none). wind farms will be all over. we'd be exporting marijuana to the US legally disguised as medical marijuana. there will be freeways from aparri to zamboanga, no tolls to pay.

downside:
we will still have a problem with the muslims. we'd be prime targets for isis, ji, etc. there maybe no mnlf/milf/biff/asg but there would be in some other name.
no jollibee, no mang inasal, no baliwag lechon.
no sm either, but that may not be so bad.
i would like to up this one. ☺