Posted on 11/09/2012 6:58:13 PM PST by oneprolifewoman
"The US continues to suffer economic difficulties stemming from the federal government's neglect to reform domestic and foreign spending. The citizens of the US suffer from blatant abuses of their rights such as the NDAA, the TSA, etc. Given that the state of Texas maintains a balanced budget and is the 15th largest economy in the world, it is practically feasible for Texas to withdraw from the union, and to do so would protect it's citizens' standard of living and re-secure their rights and liberties in accordance with the original ideas and beliefs of our founding fathers which are no longer being reflected by the federal government."
Even if a Republican gets in the white house next time it still doesn’t change the fact that there are two groups with incompatible philosophies and that isn’t going to change.
And Kansas!
You left out Tennessee. We are a conservative red state.
“...Eventually the same old ideas of the welfare state and egalitarianism would infect the new country but it would be long after we are all dead and probably our children.”
I believe our 40th president can answer this best...
“Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children’s children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.” -Ronald Reagan
Some conservative Canadians have the same idea:
http://www.republicofalberta.com/
I’d move to Alberta if they did that.
I think most of Oklahoma would be VERY ready to go with Texas. Let’s do it, I’m ready!!
“Texas is a state of mind”
Yep, that’s exactly it. Freedom is a state of mind.
Liberty has many incarnations. But the incarnations, the manifestations, die, and must. What doesn't die is that which incarnated the incarnations (I'm not being flip.) Never be attached to the USA so long as liberty is not its essence ... be attached to the invisible principle. If you think it can be restored in the USA, then fight for that.
If you think it can't, then fight for THAT ... but if there is ever to be a lasting peace and liberty ... it's primary thrust will not be violence.
It will be that peaceful liberty-lovers choose to live amongst themselves.
The reason liberty was sourced in the Decl of Independence as 'from a Creator' is that it's beyond ideology, before thought. It's already there. It's before the manifested. So it never leaves.
The reason Emerson comes to mind is that they (Emerson and Freedom) are related at the base of ourselves, before thought - Emerson merely reported what came to him through meditation ... which is not black magic ... it's just that you quiet the mind (thoughts, opinions, ideology) and what comes comes ... Freedom is pre-ideology ... so it always comes up amongst enlightened writers.
ROFL. ain't that the truth.
RED STATE OU SOONERS beat BLUE STATE IOWA last week.
Tonight: Our THUNDERS (basketball) beat DETROIT, another blue state defeat. We're on a roll, getting our REVENGE one way or another.
I would love to see OK join TX in secession. Transplanted Texan here.
Unfortunately, the Knicks beat the Mavs.
None. If I remember my Texas history correctly, that is one of the benefits of entering the union as a sovereign nation by treaty.
Take it all the way north to the border (I’m in Kansas - although embarrassed by our piss poor showing in the election). Split the county in half.
They can call themselves Dreamworld.
That is the only problem I see. Are you counting Domestic invasion as some of the foreign? Domestic invasion (ner do wells) will be a problem as well.
Missouri has a petition up now too...
And Missouri’s connected to Arkansas.
No free stuff means no freeloaders.
I came to work one morning to find an infestation of ants. So I cleaned the place, got them to actually vacuum the carpet and change the trash bag in the can instead of just pulling stuff out of it.
The next day there were no ants. They went looking somewhere else for a free lunch.
End welfare and the ne'er-do-wells will toddle off to find it in the nearest blue state.
PPPLEASE, remove this thread now! If my wife sees it she’ll be packing us up and shopping hill country real estate.
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