We were a collection of States before we were a (federalized) country.
If this ever is about to happen i’ll be damn sure to get the heck out of MA as quick as i can (I should anyways) and get my butt down to Texas before they close up the border down there.
I believe that this is a key point. The politicians may not stop but arithmetic will stop it. A lot of people understand cognitively that this debt can't continue but few really understand it, feel it deep down and really believe it, yet. That's because the Social Security checks keep coming, the Medicare payments keep getting paid, the food stamps continue, etc. When they stop or begin to slow at a serious pace, then people will start to get it. How that snowball rolls remains to be seen but it will roll.
What would be better is kick out the libtards and we keep it all, minus a state or three.
I can see the benefits of having a republic 200 years ago. Cross-border laws similar, commerce governed in a standardized manner, plenty of foreign enemies just hundreds of miles away.
But today, what’s the use of a republic? There’s little to be gained by ganging together, in fact, there is more to lose in the way of taxes and regulations.
After tagging Cuba "out" the next stop would be Massachusetts ~
I don't think the Leftwingtards in this country realize the mortal danger they are in from any nation with a technology equal to our own, with political will, to be in close proximity!
Some form of breakdown of the country is inevitable now. The most likely progression is secession of Texas as the first event. For reason and analysis, including to answers to objections, see my blog
http://freetexasconstitution.wordpress.com/
Secession is necessary if only for defensive reasons. It is either certainty of collapse by staying in the U.S. or probable economic boom (at least on a relative basis) by Secesssion.
The USSR was a bunch of small State before they were forced into being part of the USSR. We have the Southern states that were forced back into the USA. Hate to say, but there are similarities.
My proposal: let's start an expulsion movement instead of a secession movement: expel California, Oregon, Washington, Hawaii in the west, and New York, New Jersey, Maryland, Delaware and all of New England except New Hampshire and we'd be left with a damn fine country. (I don't know what we'll do with NH there in the northeast; it's a little island of sanity in a deep blue sea of liberal fruit-loopery). There's not one conservative senator among the 26 representing those 13 states, unless I'm mistaken.
We could announce that the constitution of this reset USA would be the existing US constitution (although I'd like to repeal the 17th amendment and strongly rework the ninth and tenth to strengthen limits on the power of the general government). The newly consituted Supreme Court would be charged, in the implementation language, with spending it's first few terms reconsidering the constitutionality of every enactment of the original US since the thirties in light of the newly strengthened ninth and tenth amendments.
The Heartland of this country has always suffered under the bootheels of our bicoastal elite, and been misgoverned by mostly graduates of elite schools in the northeast. Time to cast them away. While we're at it we may also want to make overtures to some of our good neighbors in certain Canadian provinces which have often chafed under roughshod rule by the elites in Ontario and Quebec. (From time to time I've heard rumblings of Canadian separatist movements in the western provinces.) So we could be both expansionist as well as expulsionist.
Imagine a new, "Can-Am" federation stretching from Alaska to Florida - including the Yukon, the Northwest Territories, Nunavut, British Columbia, Alberta, Sasketchawn and Manitoba - and encompassing all the American heartland, the mountain states, old Dixie, the Great Lakes States and Pennsylvania (but not NY). Ontario, Quebec and the Maritime Provinces would probably feel compelled to eventually merge with the now-rump remainder of the old US, with which they have more in common than with the rest of Canada in any event.
Anyway, it's fun to move pieces around on the map. Where do I sign on for the revolution?
I as born and raised in the United States ...
unfortunately, this ain’t it
Here’s a thought. I’ve found that liberals will move from areas they have destroyed through high taxes and regulation etc... to other areas of their state that are more conservative b/c taxes are lower and there’s less regulations. Unfortunately, they take their politics with them, run for office, and eventually destroy that area of the state too. We’ve seen this with liberals who move out of blue states to formerly red states and turn them purple...like Nevada and Colorado. What’s to stop liberals from moving into states that would secede and eventually destroy those areas as well?
I live in Sarasota, Florida and yearn for a more conservative place. If a split happens, I’m outta here and headed to (hopefully) Texas although I’d prefer a state which has a National League MLB team. I have to stay with the humidity and the Gulf!
Blast from the past. “Russian Professor Predicts Fall of U.S.”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2155962/posts
I was wondering, if the national debt was canceled today, who all would suffer the loss?
No, they still insist that it hasn't been tried by the right people yet, and of course they believe that THEY and the REGIME are the right people.