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.
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That is what my wife also said when we were talking about the additional construction. Got to take care of all the unions.
If Texas was to secede from Union , it is estimated that as many as 25 states would go with it. They would control 2/3 of the military forces. You are correct about the “civil war”, it was a war started by the North(Lincoln),who did not want to lose the taxes paid by the south. The south was trying to restore the original Constitution. I wonder if the current government(obama) is not wanting a issue like this so that they can invoke martial law and use it as a excuse to take total control.
Its simple, aim for the tax hiking, gun grabbing bibliophobes that support gay marriage and environmentalism...
...I was going to say something about “God knowing His own...”
That is about right...we will see if 2011 will be 1859 redux
Isn’t it ironic the War Between the States started exactly 150 years ago? Just a quick observation to this bookmark bump.
Red herring alert! If Texas secedes at the beginning nobody will even notice the difference. The federal government really plays a tiny role in most peoples lives. The only thing that will change is on the paychecks the Federal withholding will now go to the Republic of Texas.
These are not you GGGF Yankees, they won't fight to "preserve the Union" .
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