Posted on 05/16/2013 2:54:55 PM PDT by Rufus2007
Radio host Dennis Miller and National Review columnist Mark Steyn considered Thursday the possible outcomes if the United States continues down the path of socialism.
If socialism became the prevailing governing philosophy, Miller speculated, escaping it wouldn’t require a move to the Australian outback. Instead he suggested heading for the state of Texas, because it would be the first place to push back against it.
“If I ever do flee, don’t think fleeing has to involve you going over to Alice Springs or something,” Miller said. “I’m going to Texas because that’ll be the first place that pushes back. They’re not going down the tubes with this country if this country decides to go down the tubes. I really think I’d head for Texas.”
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There is no reason to believe that individual states will assert their sovereignty. Your comment, while amusing, neglects that there is a history and structure that was designed into the republic from the beginning. If FedGov™ dissolved we would have 50 countries, not a bad thing.
“Looks Like S Carolina has at least passed a House Bill declaring it illegal. http://beforeitsnews.com/eu/2013/05/us-starts-to-fracture-south-carolina-declares-obamacare-illegal-2520478.html";
If you go to the original souce from the above link you gave, you will find it’s the exchanges the state won’t do,
Quote: “To that end, we will not pursue the type of government-run health exchanges being forced on us by Washington,” she said. “Despite the rose-colored rhetoric coming out of D.C., these exchanges are nothing more than a way to make the state do the federal government’s bidding in spending massive amounts of taxpayer dollars on insurance subsidies that we can’t afford.”
It is the exhcanges they outlawed. If a federal agent tried to force their citizens into an exhange, it is now against their law.
Texas has already declined to do exchanges and Hussein is pissed about that, too. I don’t know if it is in Texas law but the state isn’t doing it.
I meant to say: There is reason to believe
We shall see, but I think it’s pretty good.
And hopefully all the libs in red states will move those utopian blue states
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The blue states would collapse in short order without tax paying producers and social conservatives.
Mark Stein has been well ahead of you and me...for years.
There is one way to change a county from Democrat to Republican. It's like this: If you are going to play a game, you better know the rules. In politics, the rules are The Texas Election Code. Democrats do not know the law, therefore they do not know the rules of the game.
We used election law to change our county from Democrat to Republican in four years. They hated us, but tough cookie.
In every county, the power to run the Central Counting Station was in the hands of the county clerk or elections administrator. If that person was a Democrat, he/she could keep Republicans out of central counting. If that person was a Republican, he/she could keep Democrats out of central counting.
We were kept out of our Central Counting Station, so one day my husband said he was going to fix that. He wrote a bill to allow both parties in Central Counting and it created a Judge at Central Counting and that Judge would be of the party who gubernatorial candidate won the last election. That is how Precinct Election Judges are determined. Creating that Judge position in Central Counting took the power away from the County Clerk or Elections Administrator. The process was now fair to both parties.
The bill passed both the Texas House and Senate without a word being changed.
When this new bill, now a law, was passed and it was reported in our county paper, we were informed our Democrat County Clerk threw the paper across the room and was furious the rest of the day. Her power was gone and now there would be a Republican Judge running Central Counting. There would be an alternate judge of the opposing party just like at a precinct polling place.
If our County Clerk had not kept us out, my husband wouldn't have written that bill. That County Clerk cut her throat when she kept us out. The bill needed to be written, however, so all counties would have fair Central Counting Stations.
Do you see what I mean by knowing the rules (law)? You win if you know the rules.
With Mexico on one side and the full force of the US on the other I am not sure that is the place I want to be.
I like that name for our new country: The Constitutional States of America.
I'd been thinking of the Independent States of America, but the Constitutional States feels closer to the mark. A worthy idea, cld51860!
Although I hate heat and humidity I'll leave my lifelong home,The Gay State,and move to North Carolina or Georgia.
Let them take the dozen states of the Northeast and Left Coast along with Illinois.We get all the oil and all the wheat...they get Detroit,the Bronx and Mexico.
Thanks, Wolf! Both work admirably well. I would prefer us always to be UNITED, but as we all know, there are nefarious forces at work. That sad reality has dawned on us all.
And contributed to the holding action that enabled Sam Houston to defeat Santa Ana at San Jacinto, and thus take Texas.
If the obamination population is concentrated in the urban areas, I’m not sure why any state should have to secede.
I predict we would have a very "liberal" emigration policy and tight border control. I know many staunch Texas patriots of Mexican descent who are involved in our group. We also have people who have escaped from totalitarian regimes and are appalled at what has happened to the United States.
http://texnat.org/ Freepmail me with any questions.
I think they’re pretty good. There’s a conservative majority in the Senate and the Gov has already said Obamacare would not be implemented in SC.
This, IMO, is a de facto secession.
The next steps will tell, however. There’s going to either be an attempt to enforce it by the feds, requiring SC to react,
or the feds will try to withhold some funding for highways, etc.
SC should, at that point, start redirecting payroll withholding to escrow until the situation is “resolved”.
Is SC prepared to forsake federal funding? If so, they’re on the right road.
That would/should be part of their planning.
Like I said, the feds can withhold funding,
SC can then start redirecting parole withholding to escrow.
South Carolina also has an active Secession movement. They have FB page as well as the Texas Nationalist Movement.
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