If Texas and Alaska Secede
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EXCUSE ME???
Don't be hating on Texas just because you didn't like the last president! We're not ALL like Bush, ya know! Now, I don't know about any of this seceding bullshit, but it sounds like it's a very SMALL minority.
*is a Texan, and DAMN PROUD OF IT*
I agree with this post, my sentiments exactly, please don't put us all in the same basket.
Well, I'm sure as hell never going to.
C'mon guys, you can't be making fun of Texas' governor. You're distracting him from killing the mentally ill.
Groan...
Minor?! It was the fucking governor of the state!!!
We need to keep the states because they have oil and it gets cold in winter. However I'm all for blowing everyone in those two states straight to hell. So give me a gun I'll be the first one to enter Texas.
Hmm... now I'm sounding like I'm from Texas.
Cash would not be a good idea, all the trillions of dollars america is pumping out is devalueing the dollar! If america was smart (it's not!) they should ask for GOLD or OIL!
I've lived in Texas for the past eight years or so, and I really do like my adopted state quite a bit. But Texas politics is a bizarre, freaky world. The whole reason Perry is making this crazy comments is because he's got a very serious primary challenger, U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, who is a very popular mainstream Republican. Perry has apparently decided that the only way he can win the primary is if he appeals to the hardcore knee-jerk part of the base, so he's madly going to Teabagging parties and spouting all sorts of kooky right wing rhetoric.
The ironic thing is, it's been long rumored that Perry is secretly gay and supposedly had an affair with one of his male aides a few years back.
Though I'm a Democrat, I'm seriously thinking about crossing the aisle and voting for Hutchison just to get Perry out of there.
The ironic thing is, it's been long rumored that Perry is secretly gay and supposedly had an affair with one of his male aides a few years back.
Though I'm a Democrat, I'm seriously thinking about crossing the aisle and voting for Hutchison just to get Perry out of there.
I just spat ginger ale. Thanks.
You know, back in the 1980's, if some type of accident occurred on a US Navy vessel, the Navy would quickly blame it on a gay lover triangle. Seriously. When the gun turret on the USS Iowa blew up, the Navy pinned it on one sailor's gay crush on another, rather than looking at the evidence of it being faulty ammunition.
It's funny in the world of politics that people are fighting and screaming for gay rights that the one way to smear someone is to say, "I hear he had a gay love affair". Go figure.
No state is going to actually secede. Do you know how much Federal money they'd be giving up in so many areas of government and business?
And when I said "minor rumblings" I was referring to the number of people rumbling ... not their position.
--Ted
And when I said "minor rumblings" I was referring to the number of people rumbling ... not their position.
--Ted
Speaking purely hypothetically, I see no reason why Alaska couldn't be an independent country.
It's rich in natural resources, and it has a median income of more than 64,000 dollars a year. Its gross state product is greater than the gross national products of more than half the world's independent countries.
While its population is small, it's not as small as some other Nordic countries. It has more than twice the population of Iceland, and more than ten times the population of Greenland, which will become self-governing this year.
It's not connected, geographically, to the rest of the United States, and it was admitted to the Union only fifty years ago.
If any states were going to secede from the USA, I would have thought that Alaska and Hawaii would be the obvious first candidates.
Sure, secession from the USA is illegal--but as any DS9 watcher knows, inter arma enim silent leges. And this isn't the 1860s. Nor is Alaska the CSA.
Let's assume that, at some point, an appropriate super-majority of the people of Alaska voted to secede: would the rest of the US really be willing to keep it in the Union by force? Even if they were willing to maintain close economic ties with their former country, remain part of NAFTA, NATO, and NORAD, and continue leasing military bases to the USA on friendly terms?
It's rich in natural resources, and it has a median income of more than 64,000 dollars a year. Its gross state product is greater than the gross national products of more than half the world's independent countries.
While its population is small, it's not as small as some other Nordic countries. It has more than twice the population of Iceland, and more than ten times the population of Greenland, which will become self-governing this year.
It's not connected, geographically, to the rest of the United States, and it was admitted to the Union only fifty years ago.
If any states were going to secede from the USA, I would have thought that Alaska and Hawaii would be the obvious first candidates.
Sure, secession from the USA is illegal--but as any DS9 watcher knows, inter arma enim silent leges. And this isn't the 1860s. Nor is Alaska the CSA.
Let's assume that, at some point, an appropriate super-majority of the people of Alaska voted to secede: would the rest of the US really be willing to keep it in the Union by force? Even if they were willing to maintain close economic ties with their former country, remain part of NAFTA, NATO, and NORAD, and continue leasing military bases to the USA on friendly terms?
I would not expect any state that wants to secede, to want to be on any kind of friendly terms with us (if they were so friendly, they wouldn't bother seceding), so I would view such a thing with a great deal of suspicion.
