Texas Newspaper Issues Warning About Secession

Newsweek ^ | 03/02/2024 | Natalie Venegas

[BobL]

“Thanks. Side point, The Federal government will never pay off the national debt.”

Certainly not possible in most of our lifetimes - even if they scoop up IRAs, 401k’s, and Pensions, it’s still won’t be enough...and then they’d go right back to big-time ‘borrowing’.

[Freest Republican]

Probably it and some given oil and gas are among the most taxed and regulated things in the nation.

[Rusty0604]

Right now we’re borrowing money to give to other countries and to illegals.
I just wonder if these politicians don’t get that the gig is up or do they know it and are doing it on purpose.

Borrowing at these higher interest rates is taking a big chunk out of the imaginary budget.

[Responsibility2nd]

This is the Texas First Pledge.

• I pledge to place the interests of Texas and Texans before any other nation, state, political entity, organization, or individual.
• I further pledge to uphold the right of Texans under Article 1 Section 2 of the Texas Constitution “to alter, reform or abolish their government.”
• If it is within the powers of my office, I will vote for legislation and resolutions to call for a vote on Texas reasserting its status as an independent nation in every term that I am elected until such a referendum is held.
• If a majority of the people of Texas vote in support of Texas reasserting its status as an independent nation, I pledge to work toward a fair and expedient separation of Texas from the federal government placing the interests of Texans first.

Why would the Dallas Morning Snooze be afraid of politicians who promise to listen to their voters?

[Rusty0604]

Some years ago we got enough signatures on a petition to just have the question of succession on the republican ballot. The Republicans refused to put it on.

[djstex]

Thanks for for this insight of where this is coming from!

[djstex]

Thanks for the ping~!

[Rusty0604]

Thanks for posting that.

[UnwashedPeasant]

If the election is stolen again, there will be lots of secession talk, and maybe some action.

[DIRTYSECRET]

Come up with a workable plan this year. Find a workable idea where Texas can work with the rest of the US. Keep the bases there. Kick out the illegals. Run the new country with mandated libertarianism. Make leftism illegal.

Offer to rejoin the US if it becomes Texas. Even Texas-lite.

Just wait for me to buy a place.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

“...does not identify how an independent Texas would run in the absence of federal funding.”

LOL...very well, thank you. Without all the federal regulations, abandonment of the horrendous “climate” regs, plentiful oil and gas, confiscation of fantastic wealth by DC, and no export restrictions, Texas would be very rich. It would probably be able to pay it’s citizens the way Alaska did when North Slope oil was discovered at Prudhoe Bay.

[PAR35]

If Oklahoma and Louisiana would join in, we could get together with OPEC and Russia and get a fair price for oil and gas.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Imagine not having to pay the exorbitant overhead of DC! Today you send them a dollar and get back maybe 20 cents of value, maybe far less. We get a crappy, woke national defense establishment today rated “weak” and not much more.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

We canceled our subscription to the San Jose Mercury News for the same reason. the only thing mildly useful was the “Local” section, but that’s online (and available at other sources), so who needs to pay the damn liberal rag?

[Rusty0604]

Ditto that!

[ProtectOurFreedom]

“The Federal government will never pay off 5he national debt.”

Good point. So a sovereign Texas could pay with Confederate dollars.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

AND, Texas would stop paying for all the freeloaders in other states, too!

[Fai Mao]

Second, Texas joins Opec and sells oil and gas retail to the US

[Rusty0604]

I was thinking about that.

[Rusty0604]

Ha!

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