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Texas to Secede?
Posted: Tue Nov 13, 2012 8:02 am
by Wildcat Ryan
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/texas-pe ... d=17701519
A petition for Texas to secede from the union, submitted to the White House, reached the number of signatures needed to draw comment from the Obama administration today.
The petition to "Peacefully grant the State of Texas to withdraw from the United States of America and create its own NEW government," was submitted on Friday of last week. Just three days later, it zoomed past the 25,000 mark at 3:22 p.m. today and kept going.
At least 17 other states have similar petitions to the Texas secession request on the We the People forum including New Jersey, New York, Montana, Colorado, Louisiana, Georgia, Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Indiana, North Carolina, Kentucky, Mississippi, Missouri, South Carolina, Oregon and Michigan. The closest behind Texas was Louisiana with 15,617 signatures.
WOW.
Re: Texas to Secede?
Posted: Tue Nov 13, 2012 8:03 am
by danefan
See you later Texas.....we'll take our Armed Forces bases with us.
Good luck with your economy and without your Medicare, Medicaid or Social Security.
Re: Texas to Secede?
Posted: Tue Nov 13, 2012 8:06 am
by bluehenbillk
Will Texas take with it the debt that W accumulated? That'd half the USA's national debt immediately. Let them go.
And on top of that - Texas is out of the Big XII, Texas A&M is out of the SEC & the Longhorn Network signal is scrambled in the USA. How bout them apples?
Re: Texas to Secede?
Posted: Tue Nov 13, 2012 8:29 am
by houndawg
They do this every few years just to get our hopes up.
Like the rest of the slave states they couldn't operate without the largesse of the blue-state taxpayers.
Re: Texas to Secede?
Posted: Tue Nov 13, 2012 9:41 am
by Baldy
houndawg wrote:They do this every few years just to get our hopes up.
Like the rest of the slave states they couldn't operate without the largesse of the blue-state taxpayers.
Actually, Texas is enjoying a near record budget surplus.
Re: Texas to Secede?
Posted: Tue Nov 13, 2012 9:57 am
by Wedgebuster
danefan wrote:See you later Texas.....we'll take our Armed Forces bases with us.
Good luck with your economy and without your Medicare, Medicaid or Social Security.
Leave the football to America, foos ball seems the proper fit for Texaco.
Re: Texas to Secede?
Posted: Tue Nov 13, 2012 10:06 am
by dbackjon
Baldy wrote:houndawg wrote:They do this every few years just to get our hopes up.
Like the rest of the slave states they couldn't operate without the largesse of the blue-state taxpayers.
Actually, Texas is enjoying a near record budget surplus.
And when we withdraw military bases, support, SSI, etc.
They will be in a world of hurt.
Anyways, idiotic idea, and scrolling thru list, many are not from Texas.
Re: Texas to Secede?
Posted: Tue Nov 13, 2012 10:10 am
by Chizzang
Texas left to it's own devices and completely devoid of Federal money would implode in 36 months
Please god let them succeed
Re: Texas to Secede?
Posted: Tue Nov 13, 2012 5:42 pm
by D1B
danefan wrote:See you later Texas.....we'll take our Armed Forces bases with us.
Good luck with your economy and without your Medicare, Medicaid or Social Security and water.
fixed.
Re: Texas to Secede?
Posted: Tue Nov 13, 2012 8:34 pm
by psychoCAT
danefan wrote:See you later Texas.....we'll take our Armed Forces bases with us.
Good luck with your economy and without your Medicare, Medicaid or Social Security.
THIS PLUS 10,000,000!!!!!!!!!!! FUCK TEXAS!
Re: Texas to Secede?
Posted: Tue Nov 13, 2012 8:43 pm
by 93henfan
You guys wouldn't be so flippant if Delaware tried to secede.
There go all of your corporations. And scrapple.
Seriously. Don't mess with us. We'll do it.
Re: Texas to Secede?
Posted: Tue Nov 13, 2012 8:53 pm
by biobengal
....and pass through a national border to get to Ocean City. No thanks.
93henfan wrote:You guys wouldn't be so flippant if Delaware tried to secede.
There go all of your corporations. And scrapple.
Seriously. Don't mess with us. We'll do it.
Re: Texas to Secede?
Posted: Tue Nov 13, 2012 9:51 pm
by DSUrocks07
biobengal wrote:....and pass through a national border to get to Ocean City. No thanks.
93henfan wrote:You guys wouldn't be so flippant if Delaware tried to secede.
There go all of your corporations. And scrapple.
Seriously. Don't mess with us. We'll do it.
Re: Texas to Secede?
Posted: Tue Nov 13, 2012 9:54 pm
by DSUrocks07
biobengal wrote:....and pass through a national border to get to Ocean City. No thanks.
93henfan wrote:You guys wouldn't be so flippant if Delaware tried to secede.
There go all of your corporations. And scrapple.
Seriously. Don't mess with us. We'll do it.
https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petiti ... t/Mbz8QFQr
And if you thought traffic on Rt. 1 was bad now...
Re: Texas to Secede?
Posted: Tue Nov 13, 2012 10:13 pm
by SuperHornet
How many threads do we really need on this? Doesn't this make three?
D'oh!
Re: Texas to Secede?
Posted: Wed Nov 14, 2012 6:43 am
by bluehenbillk
93henfan wrote:You guys wouldn't be so flippant if Delaware tried to secede.
There go all of your corporations. And scrapple.
Seriously. Don't mess with us. We'll do it.
Nope, we're too big to secede....
Re: Texas to Secede?
Posted: Wed Nov 14, 2012 9:43 am
by CitadelGrad
This idea is just as ridiculous as the idea that the American colonies could break away from the Crown and survive on their own. How could they possibly survive without the protection of His Majesty's military and naval forces? They are weak and find themselves sharing a vast continent with the Indians, French and Spanish.
Re: Texas to Secede?
Posted: Wed Nov 14, 2012 9:46 am
by CitadelGrad
That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.
Re: Texas to Secede?
Posted: Wed Nov 14, 2012 10:54 am
by Chizzang
Citdog..?
How did you steal his password
Re: Texas to Secede?
Posted: Wed Nov 14, 2012 11:10 am
by Grizalltheway
CitadelGrad wrote:This idea is just as ridiculous as the idea that the American colonies could break away from the Crown and survive on their own. How could they possibly survive without the protection of His Majesty's military and naval forces? They are weak and find themselves sharing a vast continent with the Indians, French and Spanish.
The difference being today's South is an under-educated backwater more dependent on the federal government than any other region.
Re: Texas to Secede?
Posted: Wed Nov 14, 2012 11:12 am
by GSUhooligan
Fuck yeah! Title game is coming back to Chattanooga!
Re: Texas to Secede?
Posted: Wed Nov 14, 2012 11:30 am
by Ibanez
Grizalltheway wrote:CitadelGrad wrote:This idea is just as ridiculous as the idea that the American colonies could break away from the Crown and survive on their own. How could they possibly survive without the protection of His Majesty's military and naval forces? They are weak and find themselves sharing a vast continent with the Indians, French and Spanish.
The difference being today's South is an under-educated backwater more dependent on the federal government than any other region.
I wonder why that is?
Re: Texas to Secede?
Posted: Wed Nov 14, 2012 11:36 am
by mrklean
Ibanez wrote:Grizalltheway wrote:
The difference being today's South is an under-educated backwater more dependent on the federal government than any other region.
I wonder why that is?
Its the Civil War........lol
Re: Texas to Secede?
Posted: Wed Nov 14, 2012 12:02 pm
by houndawg
biobengal wrote:....and pass through a national border to get to Ocean City. No thanks.
93henfan wrote:You guys wouldn't be so flippant if Delaware tried to secede.
There go all of your corporations. And scrapple.
Seriously. Don't mess with us. We'll do it.
Nah, just build an overpass...
Re: Texas to Secede?
Posted: Wed Nov 14, 2012 4:18 pm
by Screamin_Eagle174
Chizzang wrote:Texas left to it's own devices and completely devoid of Federal money would implode in 36 months
Please god let them succeed
They would devolve into New New Mexico.
