Posted on 12/11/2013 6:13:05 PM PST by Windflier
Longtime YouTube political poster, Christopher Greene, makes a strong case for why the state of Texas will secede from the union.
English your second language?
Maybe Texas attitude = appropriate treatment.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3099917/posts
Check out #4 and #12
It would be easy for a seceded state to “convert” internal liberals or have them self deport.
Just take away two things - the ability to use government to steal from their neighbor for “charity”, and the use of government to make their neighbor act as they want them to.
They’ll flee in droves.
Has anyone ever offered up a projected budget for this new country? I read a lot of talk on here about it and would honestly like to see how the economics work.
I see comments about oil wealth but Texas is #25 in per capita income, right in the middle of the US.
” - - - We have enough oil/gas here to sell to the commies up north and overseas, we can more than cover that kind of expense.
IF Oklahoma and Louisiana join us, we’ll form an energy conglomerate that will rival the Saudis. - - - “
Yup, and don’t forget to add in North Dakota Oil should the Lone Star Regional Republic extend from Minot to Houston.
BTW, in the future Lone Star Regional Republic, there would be NO Social Security, Medicaid, Medicare, Hospital Emergency Room payments, Obama Socialized Health Insurance Tax (OSHIT), Aid to dependent Children, Disability payments, Unemployment payments, Food Stamps; Fanny Mae, Freddie Mac, FHA, Government subsidized “research,” Financial aid to Dairy Farmers, other Farm subsidies, School Lunch Programs, etc, etc, etc and any other Marxist “re-distribution of wealth” programs that have caused the current USA to go into the present financial death spiral.
Current Oppressive Regulations by the EPA, OSHA, FDIC, etc. would be replaced by “actual harm done” as determined by an improved “hanging-judge” mentality Court System.
Rational: “If you like to break the Law, then you will like our very large, Texas Desert Tent Prisons.”
To retain any of these Marxist programs would to admit that nothing was learned from the 100 year development of Communism starting in 1912 with Progressive Teddy Roosevelt’s US Department of [Socialist] Education, to the 2012 re-election of Marxist B. Hussein Obama.
Rational: “If you like your current Marxist USA, then you can keep it, period.
If you like financial solvency, then join the 2014 Lone Star Regional Secession, period.”
THAT is an awesome image!
If you give up your U.S. citizenship then do they still have to pay your Social Security?
The members of the new confederation would then be Christian, free market, and traditional societies, while the states of the rump United States would become fully social democratic, secular societies on the European model.
If the U.S. splits up you assume it will be into two pieces. Why not three pieces? Or four? Texas may combine with the the old confederacy, but I can easily see the blue states of the plains and the northern tier creating their own country and doing quite well. That would leave the Northeast and the West Coast, and they may go their own way, too. Where you once had one country you would probably wind up with at least four.
I’m not sure the Vermont Republic or the California Republic were actually nations with a legislature, etc. They were rebellions against the British and Mexico, whereas the Republic of Texas was a sovereign nation for ten years. Yes, the Republic of Hawaii was a sovereign nation for four years.
I hope the rest of the Big 12 goes with them....
I believe a sovereign nation is one that has an established government (legislature, executive, judicial, etc.) and no, I do not think the Civil War answered the question about the role of federal government intrusion into state’s rights. That question is still with us.
If you can use one more rifleman on the wall, I’m up for a cross country trek... lemme know, brother.
I would hope that we could ALL band together to save the Union.
Conflicts throughout history have worked this way. Often, you've got to concentrate on holding a smaller territory before pushing back against the enemy.
Ok... I see Marcella AND Windflier BOTH out here... looks like a partial “Manger Pound Reunion”, and I notice I wasn’t invited...
NOW I’m hurt.... wait’ll I tell wkuman,AllAmericangirl44, and Bobby.223...
:^)
If Texas begins making noises that sound like the precursors to secession, I expect there'll be a virtual stampede to this state from all over the country. We'd be honored and blessed to have you, friend.
Two of my kids were born in Texas... Can I use them as anchor babies?
Is that your way of asking to be on the Texas ping list? Two clicks and you're there, my friend :-)
As a natural-born son of the Lone Star State, I would be able to emigrate back to God's country - if I could get my wife to move from the land of fruits and nuts!
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