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I think an equally relevant question is “can states AFFORD to secede”?

In the case of California, where I live, CA would sink to the bottom of the Pacific Ocean if it split, financially speaking.

189 posted on 04/17/2009 2:21:50 PM PDT by MS from the OC ("If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace." - Thomas Paine)

I think an equally relevant question is “can states AFFORD to secede”? In the case of California, where I live, CA would sink to the bottom of the Pacific Ocean if it split, financially speaking.

I'm certain that were a groups of states to secede, they would refuse to admit California to their membersip. CA is the problem and its people cannot be part of the solution until they learn that socialism and communism are evil and incompatible with success and with human nature.

Similarly, MD, MA, IL, NY, and the other far left states would be unwelcome in a free union until they learned to abandon their dreams of a People's Republic.

217 posted on 04/18/2009 3:14:04 AM PDT by TurtleUp (Turtle up: cancel optional spending until 2012, and boycott TARP/stimulus companies forever!)