Should Ireland apply to become the 51st state of the USA

My dad told me years ago that when he was growing up there was a lot of talk about the possibility of Ireland throwing in their lot with the United States, (assuming they would want us). Most Irish people at that time regarded the US as a kind of second homeland mainly because so many Irish were already there.
When you consider how economically dependant we are on US companies and how we still rely on the US to absorb our emigrants, we might as well go the whole hog and become a state of the US. We have proved that we cannot govern ourselves anyway and rejoining Britain is not a political reality.
Everyone seem to have fallen out of love with the EU and we seem to be blaming the Germans for everything, (it used to be the British). So maybe we should jump the EU ship and beg apply to be taken in by Uncle Sam.
Some of advantages would be:
- We could lump our entire national debt in with that of the US where it would hardly be noticed, (we have no hope of ever ever paying it off ourselves);)
- Taxes would be lower, (petrol about 80c per litre),:pac:
- We would have only 2 senators and about 4 or 5 members of Congress.:)
- Lucinda Creighton could become the first female president of the USA:eek:
- Ming could move to Colorado where he could smoke his weed legally.:cool: