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Memo to the South: Go Ahead, Secede Already!
The Daily Beast ^ | April 30, 2013 | Lee Siegel

Posted on 04/30/2013 7:00:36 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

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To: ConservativeStatement

You called?


41 posted on 04/30/2013 7:19:01 PM PDT by Fledermaus (I'm done with the GOP. Let them wither and die. We need to start over.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Universal health care. No guns. Strong unions. A humane minimum wage. A humane immigration policy. High revenues from a fair tax structure. A massive public-works program. Legal gay marriage. A ban on carbon emissions. Electric cars. Stronger workplace protections. Extended family leave from work in case of pregnancy or illness. Longer unemployment benefits.

For maybe about a year... which is about how long it would take every industry that builds things, fixes things or grows things to move south. All that would be left north of the Mason Dixon line would be tax cheats, welfare bums, poverty pimps, drug addicts and perverts of various genera. All of whom would starve because there would be no real money coming into the tax coffers and whatever the North uses for currency wouldn't be worth it's weight in raw organic fertilizer.

Sounds like a great idea. Let's do it!

42 posted on 04/30/2013 7:20:06 PM PDT by Ronin (Dumb, dependent and Democrat is no way to go through life - Rep. L. Gohmert, Tex)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The media only started perpetually calling them “Red States” in the past 4 election cycles. Before then, the colors were designated blue for Republicans and red for Democrat-National-Socialists.

I won’t let the commie rat bastards pull the wool over my eyes.

The same Baby Boomer “68 Revolution” red diaper doper babies are pushing the same agenda. Some refer to them as “New Democrats”. I prefer Red Dupes. Let THEIR states be known as Red States.

Some of us are still true blue Americans.


43 posted on 04/30/2013 7:20:10 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (America 2013 - STUCK ON STUPID)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

God, I wish! I cut loose from those idiot liberals in the north in a minute and then restore all our freedoms.


44 posted on 04/30/2013 7:20:20 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Inside every liberal and WOD defender is a totalitarian screaming to get out.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Universal health care.

Umm huh.

No guns.

Keep going

Strong unions.

Let's hear the rest.

A humane minimum wage. A humane immigration policy. High revenues from a fair tax structure. A massive public-works program. Legal gay marriage.

You understand that you would not have high revenue. Your tax structure would cause revenue to fall, right? Ok you don't. Carry on then.

A ban on carbon emissions.

You want people to stop breathing?

Electric cars. Stronger workplace protections. Extended family leave from work in case of pregnancy or illness. Longer unemployment benefits. In short, a society on a par with most of the rest of the industrialized world—a place whose politics have finally caught up with its social and economic realities.

In short a place where even you would not want to live.

Why would I hire any of your workers? They would be lazy, uneducated, expensive and just plain not worth it.

And why would I even have a business any way?

You would want to take everything I earned to support your wish list.

So businesses would close up and leave.

You would need those longer unemployment benefits.

But where would you get the money to pay them?

You could try to take them from your neighbor.

But you have no guns.

45 posted on 04/30/2013 7:20:39 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (Join AAAA : Americans Against Acronym Abuse)
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To: Fledermaus

How about Al Gore as Mister Freeze?


46 posted on 04/30/2013 7:21:39 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement (Obama is the "Disco Duck" president. A no-substance novelty that reached number one.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I posted before I read the entire article. I thought at first it was satire, then halfway through it made a litle sense. Then it went totally in the trash. Great hospitals, teaching colleges, museums bla bla bla.. all in blue states. What BS.The south descending into theocracy? I think not. Has this person ever been out of their little blue world to experience what actually exists in flyover country? It’s a wonder we can even continue to exist without smartasses like this to show us the way/s


47 posted on 04/30/2013 7:21:50 PM PDT by Figment
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear

You’re overanalzing. They’re dumbasses.


48 posted on 04/30/2013 7:22:03 PM PDT by Tax-chick (Sarah is right.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
No guns.

How does this "genius" interpret a government monopoly on legal weapons ownership as "no guns?"

49 posted on 04/30/2013 7:22:31 PM PDT by Zionist Conspirator (Ki-hagoy vehamamlakhah 'asher lo'-ya`avdukh yove'du; vehagoyim charov yecheravu!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

One inconvenient factor overlooked by the author is the industrial might of the South. In 1860, the North was heavily into manufacturing while the South was agrarian. Today, the South is more industrialized than the North, has oil and coal plus the facilities to process them. It has many more chemical plants than the North.

So go ahead Yankees,secede.


50 posted on 04/30/2013 7:23:01 PM PDT by NTHockey (Rules of engagement #1: Take no prisoners)
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To: Free Vulcan
Uh, it wouldn’t just be the South, it’d probably be most states between the mountain ranges.

Yep. Their racist, xenophobic ignorance is showing.

2012 map


51 posted on 04/30/2013 7:23:09 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (America 2013 - STUCK ON STUPID)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
I am for it... as long as we can ship all the Democrats down here up there before we seal the borders!

then when they have 95% of all the blacks we will see how they like it, how proud they will be of their obesity and diabeties numbers then! how proud they will be of their public schools ect!

52 posted on 04/30/2013 7:24:04 PM PDT by TexasFreeper2009 (Obama lied .. the economy died.)
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We are for high taxes. They are for no taxes. We are for prohibiting, in various degrees, the private ownership of guns. They are for the universal ownership of guns. We are for choice on abortion. They are against it. We are for stem-cell research. They are against it. We are for universal health care paid for by taxes. They are for excluding government from health care (except when it comes to Medicare). We are for legal immigration in generous numbers. They are for a small trickle of legal immigration. We are for a multi-racial, multi-ethnic, materialist, rationalist, secular society in which gay people marry and raise adopted children, and women more often than not rule a roost that has two electric cars in every garage and a small bottle of morning-after pills in every purse. How about them?

Underneath the heavy doses of progressive SNARK , this guy spells out their agenda pretty well. The problem is , if he ever got his dream country, he'd be living in a Marxist prison state.

53 posted on 04/30/2013 7:24:51 PM PDT by YankeeReb
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To: Blood of Tyrants

I’m ready to go. Buy-bye, Yankeelandia!


54 posted on 04/30/2013 7:25:01 PM PDT by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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Yeah, I know.

But I can't help but hope that somewhere a spark of intelligence still flickers in at least a few.

55 posted on 04/30/2013 7:25:40 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (Join AAAA : Americans Against Acronym Abuse)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

if the south secedes who’ll pay for all the welfare parasites in big northern cities like NY? Boston? Detroit? Chitcago?? and out west like LA??


56 posted on 04/30/2013 7:26:22 PM PDT by God luvs America (63.5 million pay no income tax and vote for DemoKrats...)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Sounds good to me. Texas has enough oil and other natural resources to stand on it’s own.

The Marxists can freeze in the dark for all I care.


57 posted on 04/30/2013 7:27:24 PM PDT by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal The 16th Amendment!)
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear

I understand the urge to reach, reeeeeeeach for some elements of cognition ... but it’s not there. Somehow, they’re breathing and maintaining heart function with no brain operation.

Someone should write a science fiction story about zombies.


58 posted on 04/30/2013 7:27:26 PM PDT by Tax-chick (Sarah is right.)
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To: clintonh8r

agree we have the south but all the yankee liberals can take a flying jump back home in south east FL seeing as they like their old state so much and want us down here ot look like their old state


59 posted on 04/30/2013 7:28:05 PM PDT by manc (Marriage =1 man + 1 woman,when they say marriage equality then they should support polygamy)
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To: Figment
> Surely this is satire

No, after reading the entire column, it appears that this buffoon is completely serious...and suffering serious brain damage from anoxia, caused by having his head wedged too far up his own rectum for too long.

60 posted on 04/30/2013 7:29:27 PM PDT by Flatus I. Maximus (Fight Third-World Despotism. Overthrow Obama.)
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