Comments on: Texas Governor Floats Possibility Of Secession

[abbe91]

obama's bills are due soon who will pay them
Posted by bumpedoff1 at 6:00 AM : Apr 17, 2009

They are in the pile, under Bush's bills.

[bumpedoff1]

obama's bills are due soon who will pay them

[louiville2]

2007 Federal Spending in Each State per Dollar of Taxes (What was handed out vs. what was paid in)

State - Federal Spending per tax Dollar

New Mexico - $2.03 (double what they paid)
Mississippi - $2.02
Alaska - $1.84
Louisiana - $1.78
W. Virgina - $1.76
N. Dakota $1.68
Alabama - $1.68
S. Dakota - $1.53
Kentucky - $1.51
Virginia - $1.51

Posted by rednomo at 8:39 PM : Apr 16, 2009

I always like dimwits like this guy who post usless one dimentional information.

What the information dosn't tell you is that money doesn't go to the people of the state but it does go to build roads to haul all the produce, raw materials, energy etc..... to feed blue state fat lazy couch potatoes.

That and to install and maintain all those nuclear missles. Which we think should be put in places like Manhatten which will be hit anyway. Why put them out in the middle of the country where people would have to move to after a missle strike!

[louiville2]

Secession is treason to the union. Those who advocate it are traitors.
Posted by Salaam_Shalom at 4:48 AM

No it's called free speach, so get over it.

[louiville2]

So what's all the fuss about blue states already made the case four years ago. Now look at all those BLUE state whiners on here!

Could the Blue States Secede?
Is there a legal way to opt out of the Union?
By Sam Schechner
Posted Friday, Nov. 5, 2004, at 7:05 PM ET
Even before Sen. John Kerry conceded defeat in the presidential election, some bitter blue-staters had begun joking about the possibility of seceding from red-state America. Which makes you wonder: Are there any provisions in U.S. law for a state to opt out of the Union?

But the legal situation wasn't always so clear cut. Before the Civil War, the legality of secession was an open question, and Southerners would frequently threaten that their states might ditch the fledgling nation. The legal argument, framed eloquently in the 1830 Senate debate between Daniel Webster and Robert Hayne, centered on the Constitution: Was it merely a treaty among the many states? Or was it the founding document of a singular country, a compact of the "people" cited in its opening clause?

[oftencensord]

Succession talk brings home the point that the US Government has clearly overstepped it's purpose. Obama with his "social justice" attitudes, is using the 60 year history of public assistance to justify stealing the wealth of the working American family. Both with direct taxation, and crazy deficit spending, next a death tax to lay the final blow to your life's work!. He is giving away $8000 for fist time home buyers! Is this US Government's purpose? 43% of Americans are not paying any taxes, or worse, they are getting free money they did not earn... is that the purpose of the US Government?

[Salaam_Shalom]

Secession is treason to the union. Those who advocate it are traitors.

[abbe91]

WHY do you suppose all the POOR SOCALIST NATIONS OF THE WORLD BORROW MONEY FROM CAPATILIST nations,
Posted by totofree at 4:03 AM : Apr 17, 2009

China ? borrowing from the US ? LOL.
Now, you don't have to look at Brazil, you can look at what Coolidge, Harding and Hoover did to the US : that's your philosophy and it gave us a great recession ...

[democracy1]

The Real USA, the REAL Americans, ain't you and your Lib types, freak.
Posted by Patriot54 at 3:55 AM : Apr 17, 2009

Excuse me, but REAL Americans accept that other Americans have the right to disagree with them.

I may not agree with what you say, but I'll defend your right to say it.

[abbe91]

Only half the voters turned out, and just over half of them put El Psycho Obumma in office. If you think 27% of you are going to tell the rest of us what we can and can't do, and "threaten" us with YOUR government, think again. (...)
Posted by Patriot54 at 3:45 AM : Apr 17, 2009

Voter turnout for the 2000 election was 51.3 % and only 47.9% voted for Bush (48.4% for Gore). So your 27 % have to compare with the less than 25% for Bush. Yes, think again.