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Could the Different States Become Separate Countries in the Future?

Posted on 10/17/2013 8:45:51 AM PDT by ComtedeMaistre

Governor Rick Perry was once alleged to have stated that Texas could secede in the future. But he now states he opposes succession:

http://www.usatoday.com/story/onpolitics/2012/11/13/rick-perry-texas-secession-petition/1702359/

If the different states were to become different nations, the federal government would cease to exist. That means that the federal debt would be reduced to Zero. But the price that Americans would pay, would be the loss of super power status. Would Americans be better off or worse off, if the states were to become different countries?


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; Politics/Elections; Your Opinion/Questions
KEYWORDS: cwii; cwiiping; federalgovernment; statesrights; usa
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To: onedoug

The pretended confederacy had no legal existance. Their money has no legal value. Debts to them need not be paid. It never had any title to the territory which it claimed.

It was a pretended government. Rather like Charles Stuart of England, aka the “young pretender” in his waning years he was an old man with a brilliant future behind him.


181 posted on 10/17/2013 2:16:38 PM PDT by donmeaker (The lessons of Weimar are soon to be relearned.)
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To: Undecided 2012

I figure that soldiers will do their duty, or be punished for not doing their duty. Many will have their families with them at their post. So how many of their women and children are you planning to murder to drive them away?


182 posted on 10/17/2013 2:18:10 PM PDT by donmeaker (The lessons of Weimar are soon to be relearned.)
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To: MrB

“he was dismissed because he couldn’t be trusted to launch on Texas if Barry ordered it.”

I come from that environment and find it very difficult to believe the reasons stated by Obama. That is two nuke officers relieved of command in the past month. Obama wants to remove ALL nukes from the military. He said so. Why?


183 posted on 10/17/2013 2:18:32 PM PDT by CodeToad (Liberals are bloodsucking ticks. We need to light the matchstick to burn them off. -786 +969)
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To: MrB

Only one ex-wife there. Another in California.


184 posted on 10/17/2013 2:18:52 PM PDT by donmeaker (The lessons of Weimar are soon to be relearned.)
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To: onedoug

Most of those who fought for the south were conscripts, they were themselves slaves of the state.

Lincoln once said that anyone who supported slavery should find out more about the institution by becoming a slave themselves. Ironically, the southern soldiers were enslaved to fight for slavery, and many deserted, not caring for the institution or the cause.


185 posted on 10/17/2013 2:21:03 PM PDT by donmeaker (The lessons of Weimar are soon to be relearned.)
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To: ComtedeMaistre
In 1860 Lincoln got scarcely any votes from the South, certainly none from the Deep South (Breckenridge and Bell, the southern candidates, didn't get many votes from some of the Republican states). While there were southern unionists, there were pitifully few full-fledged Republicans in 1860. That made secession a real possibility.

In the last election, no candidate got as much as 70% of the vote in any state (aside from DC, Hawaii and Utah). Apart from Alabama, Arkansas, and (very narrowly) Tennessee, every southern state gave Obama at least 40% of the vote.

This suggests that secession isn't a real possibility, or if it is it would be a very messy and bloody thing even before the federal government got involved. Talk about throwing out or forcing out people who don't share the new country's prevailing ideology often comes up at some point in the discussion, and that could be very messy and bloody indeed.

Moreover there's no guarantee that the current political situation would prevail. Deprived of Washington DC as an easy target or focus, enough of the majority vote (Republican) would move towards the other party (Democrat) to tip the balance in their favor.

186 posted on 10/17/2013 2:21:56 PM PDT by x
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To: donmeaker

That just doesn’t make a very good song...
And I suppose now you’re gonna tell me you don’t make your home in Tennesee?


187 posted on 10/17/2013 2:22:12 PM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: onedoug

Sherman said if he owned Hell and Texas, he would live in Hell and rent out Texas.


188 posted on 10/17/2013 2:22:28 PM PDT by donmeaker (The lessons of Weimar are soon to be relearned.)
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To: x

No need to throw anyone out.
You get rid of the nanny libs by not allowing them to use the government to impose on their neighbor,

and get rid of the parasite libs by taking away their gibsmedats.

They’ll self-sort out of there.


189 posted on 10/17/2013 2:24:12 PM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: MrB

That may be true, but it could be worse.

It could be that he was dismissed because the next guy in line would launch at Barry’s command, even after Barry was no longer in office.

Creepy in either case.


190 posted on 10/17/2013 2:24:26 PM PDT by donmeaker (The lessons of Weimar are soon to be relearned.)
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To: MrB

then lets do that to the whole country!


191 posted on 10/17/2013 2:24:57 PM PDT by donmeaker (The lessons of Weimar are soon to be relearned.)
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To: ComtedeMaistre

The future historian Robert Heinlein wrote on this years ago.

He predicted a shism that set apart the south and the northeast. I think Texas was included in the south. There was a great swath in the middle and north. Out west, California was split, inland and coastal. The coastal cities of Oregon and Washington were a part of the California coastal amalgam.

As I recall there were 5 divisions but neither Alaska or Hawaii were included.

My thoughts are that he pretty much got it right. Following his lead I have called not for secession, but for purge. I am specially drawn to the concept of purging all of New York and every thing north and east. Northern New Jersey and Wilmington might be added. These states are NeoEuropa, loyalists to the home countries. They have degenerated beyond salvation but can’t see it.

As far as California goes, I expect the big quake to take either LA or San Francisco out of being. With either gone, California might right its self.


192 posted on 10/17/2013 2:25:43 PM PDT by bert ((K.E. N.P. N.C. +12 ..... Travon... Felony assault and battery hate crime)
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To: donmeaker

Hayek addressed this -

the one holding the whip always ends up being the worst possible human being imaginable,

because all his predecessors were asked to do something they wouldn’t do, and he was willing to do.


193 posted on 10/17/2013 2:25:52 PM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: MrB

I think that would be nice: No income tax, decent firearms laws. I think I might like Tennessee. When I retire.


194 posted on 10/17/2013 2:26:53 PM PDT by donmeaker (The lessons of Weimar are soon to be relearned.)
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To: bert

I know a lot of good people that live close to both. I was first married in Palo Alto (at Stanford U Newman Center).

Maywood is just east of LA, about 5 miles from Little Tokyo.


195 posted on 10/17/2013 2:29:29 PM PDT by donmeaker (The lessons of Weimar are soon to be relearned.)
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To: bert

So long as you know Heinlein wrote fiction, you will be ok. I rather like his fiction, but the guys who work at Natick on soldier augmentation tend to wish he hadn’t put quite as much detail gee-whiz into “Starship Troopers”.

In Maywood I was a “Stranger in a Strange Land”.

I am still looking for my “Friday”.


196 posted on 10/17/2013 2:32:11 PM PDT by donmeaker (The lessons of Weimar are soon to be relearned.)
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To: PGR88

who would fight for the federal govt? the EBT crowd? main stream media hosts? John McCain? yeah, right. The Dems who get excited over the passing of the WW2 generation? Idiots...that’s the last generation to actually believe the whole US is greater than the sum of its parts. and the idiot left needs the whole thing to hang together or they might have to find actual jobs.


197 posted on 10/17/2013 2:39:49 PM PDT by ameribbean expat
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To: donmeaker

when it collapses and there is no money, they leave.


198 posted on 10/17/2013 2:52:55 PM PDT by Undecided 2012
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To: Undecided 2012

So it that true of the insurrection? If all you need for money is a printing press, then there will be no shortage of money.


199 posted on 10/17/2013 2:56:30 PM PDT by donmeaker (The lessons of Weimar are soon to be relearned.)
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To: ComtedeMaistre
If the South was to secede again, would the federal government have the stomach to wage war like it did between 1861 to 1865?

Don't' secede. Expel the traitorous states that voted for someone who vehemently opposes the Constitution of the United States.

200 posted on 10/17/2013 3:09:27 PM PDT by Pollster1 ("Shall not be infringed" is unambiguous.)
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