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Old 04-15-2009, 10:00 PM
 
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If you're so against the federal government "encroaching" on Texans, put your money where your mouth is: no longer accept any federal money, no matter what natural disasters or border problems afflict your state.
That would actually work out FANTASTIC for Texas if we did not take ANY federal funds, and the federal govt did not get any revenue from Texas. We would be MUCH better off!
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Old 04-15-2009, 10:02 PM
 
Location: Michigan
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Perry suggested Texans might at some point get so fed up they would want to secede from the union.
If they did, I'd be so happy I'd wet myself.

I wouldn't force the scumbags back in this time, either.
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Old 04-15-2009, 10:05 PM
 
Location: Tennessee
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So, and I keep asking this, are you ready for Liberalville and Conservativeville, yet? No war, just divide the country in half geographically (a line that goes from North to South or diagonally North to South so people have both kinds of hot/cold weather options), sort of like Joe Biden's recommendation for divvying up Iraq. Everybody would pick up and move to the half of the country they'd feel most comfortable in, with their own established respective liberal and conservative governments. Kids under 18 have to go with parents but once hitting 18 could move to the other side. Let's say, before the big move, the current federal government will help people who have to physically relocate to do so. Whether there would be states or not within Liberalville and Conservativeville would be up to each new country. For arguments sake, we'll say travel/extradition/trade between the two, at least until the governments figure themselves out, would be no different than it is now. Would you be willing to do it?
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Old 04-15-2009, 10:39 PM
 
Location: los angeles
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So, and I keep asking this, are you ready for Liberalville and Conservativeville, yet? No war, just divide the country in half geographically (a line that goes from North to South or diagonally North to South so people have both kinds of hot/cold weather options), sort of like Joe Biden's recommendation for divvying up Iraq. Everybody would pick up and move to the half of the country they'd feel most comfortable in, with their own established respective liberal and conservative governments. Kids under 18 have to go with parents but once hitting 18 could move to the other side. Let's say, before the big move, the current federal government will help people who have to physically relocate to do so. Whether there would be states or not within Liberalville and Conservativeville would be up to each new country. For arguments sake, we'll say travel/extradition/trade between the two, at least until the governments figure themselves out, would be no different than it is now. Would you be willing to do it?
The separation is already taking place & why the Republican party is now called the "Party of the South" where their people are. All the large cities in Texas vote Democratic so that only leaves the rural yokel ignorant. Perry can be the leader of the DUH! Party
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Old 04-15-2009, 10:53 PM
 
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If the federal government collapses, and with it's piling on trillions after trillions in new debt, it soon will, we will need the 50 states to provide some sort of government. States like California are about to collapse too.
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Old 04-15-2009, 10:58 PM
 
Location: 93,020,000 miles from the sun
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If they did, I'd be so happy I'd wet myself.

I wouldn't force the scumbags back in this time, either.
Wow. 23 million scumbags, each and every one of them, huh? It must be nice to live in a state like Michigan where no one is a scumbag, least of all someone like yourself who makes such generalizations. Maybe some day we'll all be as righteous as you.
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Old 04-15-2009, 10:59 PM
 
Location: North Cackelacky....in the hills.
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There will be no "mad rush" to move to Texas, so don't worry about it.
I'd go....

I know lots of people who would go....
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Old 04-15-2009, 11:01 PM
 
Location: los angeles
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I'd go....

I know lots of people who would go....
Yeah it will be called the Aryan Republic of Texas
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Old 04-15-2009, 11:03 PM
 
Location: North Cackelacky....in the hills.
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So, and I keep asking this, are you ready for Liberalville and Conservativeville, yet? No war, just divide the country in half geographically (a line that goes from North to South or diagonally North to South so people have both kinds of hot/cold weather options), sort of like Joe Biden's recommendation for divvying up Iraq. Everybody would pick up and move to the half of the country they'd feel most comfortable in, with their own established respective liberal and conservative governments. Kids under 18 have to go with parents but once hitting 18 could move to the other side. Let's say, before the big move, the current federal government will help people who have to physically relocate to do so. Whether there would be states or not within Liberalville and Conservativeville would be up to each new country. For arguments sake, we'll say travel/extradition/trade between the two, at least until the governments figure themselves out, would be no different than it is now. Would you be willing to do it?
Yes...in a minute.
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Old 04-15-2009, 11:05 PM
 
Location: North Cackelacky....in the hills.
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Yeah it will be called the Aryan Republic of Texas

Good job using page one of the leftist insult handbook.

Sad you cannot actually debate but it is typical of the useful idiots(not an insult,google it)
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