Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 12/28/2010 4:50:45 AM PST by reaganaut1
The opening shot of the War Between the Red and Blue States may have been fired last Friday when the Environmental Protection Administration announced its intention to take over Texas's authority on issuing clean air permits to new industrial facilities as of January 2.
It is hard to imagine a more stark confrontation between public and private sector-oriented economies. Texas has the strongest economy in the nation, based on its philosophy of limited government. The Texas Legislature convenes only in odd-numbered years is constitutionally limited to meeting only 140 days. Until this year, Texas has had a budget surplus and still has $7.5 billion in a rainy-day fund created by voters in 1988. During 2006 and 2007, Texas created 52 percent of all new jobs in the nation, according to a study done by the Southern Methodist University's Cox School of Business. People are flocking to the state so fast that Texas will gain four seats in the House of Representatives in the new decade.
Washington, on the other hand, has run up a trillion-dollar budget deficit and destroyed private-sector jobs all over the country while expanding the government and presiding over 10 percent unemployment. The states on the East and West Coast that adhere most closely to Washington's philosophy are approaching insolvency. Yet they continue to pursue dreamy energy agendas, trying to close down existing power plants and refusing to build new ones while planning for a world running on windmills and solar collectors.
Now Washington is going to try to impose this blue-state agenda on Texas. The struggle will dwarf the Arizona-versus-Washington contest over immigration.
(Excerpt) Read more at spectator.org ...
Merry Christmas, Happy New Year, and global warming ping.
TX should say “NO.” The Feds shouldn’t be allowed to pursue an agenda rejected by TX voters.
TX should say “NO.” The Feds shouldn’t be allowed to pursue an agenda rejected by TX voters.
TX should say “NO.” The Feds shouldn’t be allowed to pursue an agenda rejected by TX voters.
Don’t think for a minute all the people heading to Texas are conservatives. Libs are coming to save ya all like they have saved NY, Ca., Mass., and others. They will cut thru your surpluses like a Rosie at a cookie jar. Not wishing it on ya, it’s what they do
Secede Texas while you still can- the Fed is come down to you having great wrath b/c you are still prospering. Can’t have that ya know!
This is not good. These kinds of lame-brain actions over time could result in Texas deciding that it’s better off on it’s own.
You will be seeing more of the fight by the Libs in govt. agencies to help the Blue states by punishing the Red states.
Not quite the hopey/changey thing some were expecting.
Texas should inform the EPA that it has no authority until such time as a constitutionally elected President is in the White House. Until such time it will consider itself a independent Nation and will set it own environmental standards
Yes! When you secede, bring Missouri with you. Of course we would welcome our intervening neighbor, Oklahoma, and any other “fly-over” states.
In a Civil War the citizens fight to take control of their government.
The War of Northern Aggression was not a Civil War. The South did not wish to conquer the North, They olny wished to be left alone.
The next war will be a Civil War with so many factions fighting each other it will be hard to draw the line on who to shoot.
ARREST EVERY EPA OFFICIAL WHO DARES SET FOOT IN TEXAS.
“In 1994, the Colorado Legislature passed a 10th Amendment resolution and later introduced a bill titled “State Sovereignty Act.” Had the State Sovereignty Act passed both houses of the legislature, it would have required all people liable for any federal tax that’s a component of the highway users fund, such as a gasoline tax, to remit those taxes directly to the Colorado Department of Revenue.” The entire article is on:
http://townhall.com/columnists/WalterEWilliams/2009/03/25/states_rebellion_pending/page/full/
Texas Rangers.
Oklahoma Rangers.
Missouri Rangers.
Sounds like a plan...
Secession? Watch out for the wrath of the Yankee revisionists. They hate that proposition.
If Texas secedes I can finally say what I have been wanting to say for a long time: “You all can go to hell. I’m going to Texas.”
TX will be the first to bolt. Just wait until the commies in DC want to bail-out CA and IL...
We are quickly reaching the preverbial straw...
The succession movement in Texas is quite strong....more than is being reported.
Texas won’t be the only state to split.
Elections have consequences.....
Memo to the world: Texas does not suffer fools well....official response may be slow...but response is certain.....!
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