“Secession is a purely political decision to leave a union of states.”
Excellent, Windflier.
“Can you tell me where the fed got the money to give back to the several States?”
Great question, txhurl
BurningOak is a DU troll that I can smell from a mile away. All it (Burning Oak) does is belittle patriots and try to crush the patriot spirit. It (BurningOak) is a troll.
Some time ago, we, meaning the good FR people, dumped nonsequitur. It’s time to do the same to the Burning Oak troll.
I was going to reply to your constant abuse but suddenly realized you are from Michigan, now, it all makes sense. Nice to see someone representing Detroit here. I now understand why you are offended at the notion of states needing to give up federal funds to be free.
Let me educate you. Michigan is a state that is entirely dependent on federal handouts, if tomorrow Obama forgot to send my money to Detroit, Michigan would instantly become Somalia without the nice weather. Massachusetts would secede from the union before Michigan. Welfare queens do not secede from their daddy, and slaves to federal dollars make poor revolutionaries.
I wrote a couple of thousand words about the probable outcome of secession by several red states recently. It was over the course of a longish debate I was having with a couple of other posters who were convinced that the federal government would bomb the red states back to the stone age if we ever dared to secede.
I probably should have saved them so I didn’t have to rewrite the entire argument out the next time I ran into the same paranoid opinions.