20 States sign petition to succeed from the Union(Georgia (Atlanta: 2015, to live in)

[Mutiny77]

Originally Posted by BobKovacs

None of the "states" have filed petitions to secede- individual citizens who gathered signatures have. In total, there have been 100,000 signatures, which accounts for about 0.08% of the population of the 20 states that petitions were sent from- not exactly a vast number of people.

As said above, Georgia and most of the Southern states get back far more money from the Federal government than they pay in, so they'd lose big time if secession ever really happened, which it won't. You think we've got water/road/education issues now? Think about the issues we'd have if we actually had to pay for all of that stuff ourselves.

That's mostly for other Southern states; from the stats I saw, Georgia gets back a penny from the feds for every dollar it sends to Washington, so it's pretty much a wash here.

[berkeleylake]

Just my opinion, but here goes: secession won't go anywhere anytime soon, just a lot of people who sign the petition are those who want to vent.

[Ross706]

I remember hearing about this a while back I figured it was just a bunch of Romney supporters upset at Barack's re-election, turns out a lot of people are serious about this which is what trips me out. I highly doubt any state will secede I will be surprised if that does happen but hopefully common sense still exists and people in general won't go that far with their discontent then again it is 2012 who knows. Say this does happen though highly doubt it but it does, does anyone here really think the United States government will let that happen? Absolutely not, if that was to happen there's a 99.9 percent chance a second civil war would break out. I see it like this it didn't work the first time and back then our country was even more unstable than it is now so why in Gods name would anybody think the outcome would be any different this time around? I agree things do need to change but not in that way sure things aren't exactly perfect but all you gotta do is look at some of these other countries to see how blessed we truly are to live in a country like this now I might not agree with the government majority of the time but if you read between the lines It could without a doubt be a hell of alot worse than it is now, I mean come on people from other countries came here and still come here for a reason this is the country people worldwide come to pursue the American dream even in this goofy day and age that still means somethin', just my two cents I hardly post on here but I figured why not this thread caught my eye.

[rcsteiner]

Originally Posted by LovinDecatur

We're talking about government, not country. The Second Amendment was created to provide the citizenry a recourse against tyranny.

Seceding from the Union sounds like a desire to leave the country to me, LD, specifically to form their own. Am I missing something?

[Iconographer]

Originally Posted by rcsteiner

Seceding from the Union sounds like a desire to leave the country to me, LD, specifically to form their own. Am I missing something?

I don't think you're missing anything, rc. And I think its more about taking back our country rather than leaving it. If not everyone wants to follow, then so be it.

[AnsleyPark]

Originally Posted by LovinDecatur

I don't think you're missing anything, rc. And I think its more about taking back our country rather than leaving it. If not everyone wants to follow, then so be it.

Taking back our country??? Who has it???

[nature's message]

Looks like Atlanta is looking to secede from Georgia if secession is successful.

Secession mania reaches the City of Atlanta | Jay Bookman

[rcsteiner]

Originally Posted by LovinDecatur

I don't think you're missing anything, rc. And I think its more about taking back our country rather than leaving it. If not everyone wants to follow, then so be it.

Hmmm.

If you're one of the fine citizens who want to leave because of the newly elected President, please allow me to politely help you on your way and lock the door behind you.

Nothing personal. I'm just not a fan of fair weather patriotism, and I think that many of the folks who are signing these petitions are either blowing off steam or simply don't understand what it is that they're actually voting for. If they actually do mean it, may their every wish come true...

Even a representative democracy sometimes does things that a large percentage of the population doesn't like. That's how the process works.

[TehOmni]

Only Georgia and Texas can possibly survive, but the rest of the country will look like scenario from Mad Max.

[divided]

think about what some of u stupid people are saying your goverment lovers ,the goverment isn't working for you any more sure you may have some say on who is in there but watch where most of your hard earned tax dollers go with out your say soon overseas to fight someone elses war,when we acually broke here,more school budgets cut,higher taxes,more jobs because companies can't afford to compete with other countries that have cheap labor , and for the ones that say our country did you know that china and japan and some other countries really own us,so in short u probly are rite they can't really sucede with out asking these other countries.