Posted on 11/22/2009 9:35:49 AM PST by RepublicnotaDemocracy
Perry has seemingly begun to build a case of grievances against the federal government. His primary points:
-Current administration is “hell-bent” on socialism Washington is now actively punishing Texas through it policies
-Health Care Bill would eat up Texas’ $9 billion rainy day fund in 1.5 years
-Cap and Trade would cap the entire southern economy Texas may have to reassert 10th amendment protections
I will not pretend to know whether Perry is sincere or if this is simply positioning himself for the upcoming primaries. But that’s not the point… certainly these statements indicate the mood of many of the people in Texas. If nothing else, Texans know that our state, among others, is under attack by the current redistribution-focused federal government. And we know that something must be done…
But are we serious?
(Excerpt) Read more at texas.tenthamendmentcenter.com ...
And, you too will end up with tons of monuments and 100 years of poverty should you try.”
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Whether we’d end up with tons of monuments remains to be seen. I can tell you we will end up impoverished should we remain. The Feds now have two options with respect to our overwhelming debt and the USD. They can either repudiate the debt (never happen) or inflate their way out by depreciating the dollar (which is the path they’ve chosen and is well underway).
The USDX is collapsing against a basket of other rapidly depreciating, soon to be worthless currencies as well it should be. We’re broke and we’re getting broker with Obama only hastening the day. The abandonment of the dollar as the world’s reserves currency and the collapse of the built in demand due to the rejection of the petrdollar is now in full swing. The volatility of the dollar caused by it’s structural deficiencies has rendered it worthless as a store of value and too risky for major oil exporters who formerly conducted all their business in dollars. With the collapse of that built in demand the USDX chart is a wreck. We’ve got a new currency coming whether we stay or go.
With the massive financial issues we’re facing the feds will continue to look for addtl revenue streams from a moribund economy that cannot strengthen due to the enormous debt overhang at all levels. AS they desperately try to stave off the day of reckoning by raising taxes unrest will only increase with secession being an option that will be considered more openly.
Whether it’s a war or not is entirely up to the Feds. However, Fed public sentiment and the current leadership seems to be of the opinion ‘just let them go, we don’t want them here’.
Now would be a great time to leave.
Ain't happening. The deal was that Texas gave up all the extra lands for the federal government purchase of Texan debt at the time of annexation. As a Texan I am not sure I'd even want part of New Mexico and Colorado to be incoroporated into our state. It would bring in too many blue people.
Every non Texan liberal (pretty much a bunch of FedEx IT workers) I've broached the subject with has said repeatedly "Just go and take Oklahoma with you"
Forget NM and CO..it’s every State for themselves.
Trust me, we don’t want them back now.
Let the Feds keep that land.
Other states may want to join Texas, but we really shouldn’t take them with us - they have no history of independent nationhood and besides we have no idea what kind of messes we’d be importing.
Maybe Oklahoma as they’re essentially part of Texas anyway - but nobody else. Anyone else wanting to leave the US can go form their own nation and make a go of it on their own for a while before we should consider a merger.
To borrow a phrase:
What Oklahoma wants is irrelevant. They will be assimilated. :D
Every county in OK went for McCain, so not a bad pickup.
Piss on the courts.
With logic like yours we still be subjects of the King of England.
Nothing in the Constitution forbids secession, and court decisions mean nothing if you can't or aren't willing to enforce them.
The day some communist scumbag in DC orders an attack on Texas is the day this Republic falls.
It will be interesting to see how Texas responds to a Democrat-controlled federal government looting the state treasury that a Republican state government saved, in order to give it to the people of Michigan, a state that the Democrats ruined.
-PJ
I think most people would not want to see Texas secede. It’s part of our country. I love Texas. Lived there for 6 years. What would we do without our biggest, bad ass red state? We need you!
What would you do without us?
Hopefully travel a longer way down the socialist path we’re on right now until it becomes clear to even the dumbest liberal that it’s a painfully stupid idea - then come crawling to Texas to come save you.
That would work well.
Also, per a recent poll, a majority of non-Texans surveyed want to see us leave.
No, it just means they have to do a better job faking the evidence.
I don’t know what the answer is anymore, but it sure can’t be to lose Texas. Although if they secede and succeed, we might have to move back there....lol.
Well that is sad if that poll is accurate. Of all the places I’ve lived, I felt that I was among more people that held my same values than anywhere else I’ve ever lived. Even the hispanics I knew were so conservative. I made some of my best friends ever there.
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