Posted on 05/09/2004 5:42:13 PM PDT by SamAdams76
LOL! That'll make for plenty big blilingual road signs.
I believe Saturday Night Live -- or some similar show -- once called Cadada the Retarded Giant of the North.
I don't deny that New England, New Jersey, and the New York metro region have many creative people and good businessmen. However, most of these states have state and local governments that are far more intrusive and taxing than their counterparts (except California, Washington, Oregon, and Maryland). The Northeast's financial fortunes are to a considerable extent due to the fact that the Federal government is less intrusive and offers lower taxes than most of the Western democracies. The relatively light touch of Washington is primarily due to the more conservative politics of the South, Midwest, and Plains and Mountain states.
Place the seven states (and an eighth state for downstate New York) into a union with socialist-minded provinces like New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Newfoundland, and the central government of this federation would likely turn the region into something like a European social democracy, complete with state-run medicine, cradle to grave social welfare, tolerance for pedophiles and transvestites, legislation against conservative Christians preaching the Gospel, illegalizing home schooling, heavy discouragement of automobile use, 60-75% top income tax bracket, etc.
Meanwhile, the US Senate would be rid of 14 mostly liberal Democrat or RINO senators and the Presidential race would be short of 80-100 votes that are either a Democrat shoo-in or highly likely to go for Kerry.
Parts maybe, but certainly not the entirety.
There are 118 commissioned Texas Rangers. More than enough to repel any attempt.
Natives aren't equals? Equals to whom? Please explain.
Also, 'neocommunist'? The B.C. government is clearly neoconservative.
Of course, those countries would have to adopt the U.S. Constitution and all that.
I'm also talking over the next 200 years. This isn't going to happen overnight. But I believe it will happen.
This would give us (the U.S.) even more enormous control over the globe then we already have. I believe it is destined to happen.
I believe we are headed for a five-nation globe. The remnants of Europe will join up with Russia for a single nation that will be rather poor by U.S. standards. The Asian nations (China, Korea, Vietnam, Cambodia, Singapore etc.) will join up into a single entity. This would include India. This country will be very rich but not as rich as the U.S.A.
The next country will be the Spanish-speaking countries of South and Central America. This will be a very poor and dysfunctional nation.
Bringing up the rear will be Africa and the Middle East. These countries will all join together as the poorest nation on earth. Poor Israel. At some point in the distant future, the United States will help the Israelis acquire a Texas sized piece of land in the Middle East as a buffer zone just so they can have some breathing room.
None of us will live to see all this but take my word for it, it will happen.
Um, ah, excuse me but don't we have a little say in this?
I think much will change in the next 200 years, and current socioeconomic imbalances will likely shift over that large amount of time. But the world does seem to be headed toward settling into large economic/political blocs such as the EU. At the same time, countries do seem to like keeping their borders. At any rate, we will live in interesting times.
We haven't had a Union since 1861 -- it's been yours, all yours, ever since. Or do we need to go over how all that walnut and mahogany paneling got into all those New York and New England businesses and residences, that you don't see nearly as much anywhere else, and especially not in old farmhouses?
And you wouldn't have much of a Texas today if not for our tax dollars sent south by your politicians. Show a little more gratitude for our hard work, will ya?
What do you mean, your politicians? Yankee legislators fought Texas's admission to the Union tooth and nail -- John Quincy Adams led the fight personally, and he fought like hell against John Calhoun's initiatives to assume Texas's debts in order to put some critically-needed specie into the Texas "economy". When Texas was hard up against it, you and yours begrudged her the first nickel, and every one after. You fought her admission to the last ditch. Then you stiffed Texas's debt owners in 1869, in Texas vs. White, because it was a political case about the Civil War, and a chance to preach Yankee "Union" doctrine from a bench full of Lincoln appointees, led by Chief Justice Salmon P. Chase, Abe's Treasury Secretary and a first-rate Yankee thumbscrew. Don't tell me about gratitude. We still owe you a bunch of hard licks for that first go-round in the 1840's, when you didn't want Texas trash in the Union and didn't want to defend Texas's boundaries against Mexican claims. That's not even including any accounting for what you did in the Civil War. Oh, and by the way -- Texas never formally surrendered, and her troops took their weapons and their colors home with them. And that's why all your sorry Yankee neighbors are all in favor of gun control!
Sounds like a fair trade to me - LMAO
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