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We Texans would not secede unless things got totally out of control. The point is that people would even consider the possibility. The federal govt with both parties needs to wake up that many of the common people across the country are not happy with the current course of outrageous spending and debt.
The point in the article is that Texas doesn't have the legal right to secede. So secession is a moot point. Just demagoguery on Perry's part. To whip up the "base," line 'em up for votes. So ridiculously transparent.
AUSTIN, Texas -- Texas Gov. Rick Perry fired up an anti-tax "tea party" with his stance against the federal government and for states' rights. Perry told the Austin crowd Wednesday that officials in Washington have abandoned the country's founding principals. During his speech to hundreds in a U.S. flag-waving crowd, there were several shouts of "Secede!"
Perry suggested Texans might at some point get so fed up they would want to secede from the union.
As good for the rest of us as it would be if Texas did leave the Union, I still think it is our duty as humanitarians to prevent this tragedy:
You'd have concentration camps springing up within weeks from Texarkana to Del Rio.
The faithful would eat blacks, Mexicanos, and anyone else they believed didn't worship a guy who lived over 2k yrs ago exactaly as they wanted them to.
Then there's the problem of security for the US.
God knows who the Texans would bond with?
The Pakistanis or perhaps N.Koreans is my best guess.
So, no, as responsible adults we have to keep them in their room- if only for their own good.
The governor did not roll out any carpet for anyone. How can the state of California control the flow of immigrants across our border? We need federal protection\ control of the border [just like Arizona\ New Mexico\ Texas]. None of the individual states on the US\Mexico border can do anything to stop immigrants. Bush did nothing. My hope is that Obama can put a stop to the immigration problem.
It may have been Davis, so if I'm wrong about which governor is responsible then I'll stand corrected, but one of them approved $36 billion in spending for insurance benefits and medicare for illegal immigrants, which nearly bankrupted the state and has had horrible repercussions. State employees are making minimum wage now. You're right in that the state can't control the flow of illegals into the country but it would help if they didn't entice them with free insurance and other benefits that most actual U.S. citizens can't even afford.
I've always considered my country first, even when I didn't agree with what they were doing. I have never even considered myself a part of anything else (state, race or otherwise).
It is horribly sad, reading these threads has made me realize how divided our country truly is (It's like we're the sunnis and shi'ites in Iraq).
Actually that is how Americans WERE for the longest time...
They were Virginians first.
It wasn't until Lincoln started the Civil War and ultimately crushed the south that this way of thinking started to vanish...
Wow, because you're just too good for the South, right? Or, let's just discredit an entire city because of the geographical region in which it sits. Close-minded?
The funny thing is, TANaples lives in an even more southern state than Texas! Closed-minded? More like NO-minded.
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