What Would Happen If Texas DID Secede?

By Saturday May 16, 2009

Yeah, it’s Olbermann, but…

Anyway, I’ll just leave this tidbit for you to ponder upon regarding Texas.



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  1. Alfred1 says:
    5/16/2009 at 7:34 am

    #20 I’m ready to leave the People’s Republic of California right now…for the Free State of Texas…or Alaska.

    You are 100% right…without the Washington parasite Texas would thrive…

    Those laboring under the weight of Washington and its eco tryanny will become a third world impoverished nation.

    We will need that fence to keep them out…in contrast, our Mexican neighbors will be wealthier and, as most of them are not ACORN freeloaders, make great immigrants as long as we don’t let ourselves get overwhelmed.

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  2. Joe says:
    5/16/2009 at 7:59 am

    Check this. Texas gets back .94 cents for every dollar it pays to the Feds.

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  3. GF says:
    5/16/2009 at 8:05 am

    If Olberman knew anything about Texas history he would know that the hispanics of Texas are a part of the reason Texas beat the Mexican Army. The hispanics of Texas couldn’t stand Santa Ana nor his thieving corrupt Mexican cohorts. An example dear moron, just because Ben Franklin was of english decent doesn’t mean he was a British loyalist.

    BTW, technically, Texas and the U.S. have to ratify their union agreement every year, the only State that I believe has such an agreement. If either one does not ratify the agreement can you guess what happens? It could get real sticky considering that New Mexico, Arizona and parts of Colorado and Utah were once within Texas borders. Yeah, if Olberdumb is gonna pull some shit out his ass I thought I could pull some shit out of mine.

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  4. Alfred1 says:
    5/16/2009 at 8:18 am

    What will happen to the rest of the country when Texas secedes

    Once Texas is free of the Washington parasite and its eco tyrants, it will thrive economically. Business will accelerate their relocation to Texas…

    We will have our big SUV’s, homes and guns…and the finest health care free market capitalism can provide…available to all willing to work for a living and pay for it.

    But life in Obama’s brave new world will not be so pleasant.

    While there will be many green jobs, once PETA successfully grants civil rights to animals, buses, carts and plows will utilize “green human power” employing millions. Methane collectors would recycle their offensive emissions and a special diet of gruel will keep such pollutants at a minimum. Beans won’t be on the menu.

    And all the citizens will be free to publicize their gratitude for the beneficent rule of the Dear Leaders Obama, Pelosi and Reid…They are tirelessly working for you to eradicate any green house gases you or your family emits into the air.

    And doctors providing the universal health care needed by our industrious community will find the two hour mandatory Obama prostration period, a refreshing break in their 12 hour day.
    Doctors will be required to donate a day a week to the community to sustain our health care, however, our kind and generous Leader will grant any time doctors serve in this capacity, be in lieu of service in Obama Corp, a division of ACORN watching over everyone in the community to ensure their complaints and desires are properly met.
    Thanks to the efforts of our wise leadership, confusion over brand names will be a thing of the past…every product will be made by the Government…according to Green standards…
    It will truly be a worker’s paradise. The Cap & Trade program and carbon tax has made our clean air and water possible…but the Leader will deal harshly with all deforestation for home heating fuel.
    During Morning Prostration to our Historic Leader, it is forbidden any take a number at the bank or grocery market, rather than wait hours in line. That is taking unfair advantage of the system. Consider the hours waiting to make deposits ect, as a time to reflect upon the glories of our green economy, and make any necessary adjustments to your personal methane reclamation units.

    It is required of all citizens they show any visiting ACORN officials hospitality…they are to be granted lodging and sustenance as they request. Our Historic leader knows you will gladly donate this to them as they serve the community for the good of the state.

    Be warned, Texas is filled with greedy capitalist pigs who show concern for the comrades. There have been reports of our citizens being run over on the large 8 lane freeways, buy grossly polluting SUVs on the way home from Walmart, filled to the brim with unhealthy foods and polluter made goods.
    Remember, for your own protection, do not scale the border fence and to enter the allegedly Free Nation of Texas…Obama care doesn’t exist there…don’t be fooled by magnificent medical facilities and expert doctors that exist there, in contrast to our Spartan clinics, the beds are not provided by the state. Insurance or money is required.

    Also some of our citizens made the mistake of working for food, earning shopping carts filled with every unhealthy transfat infested food one can imagine…boating themselves into obesity and even allowing their personal methane be released into the atmosphere (harming the planet), not trapped by any reclamation unit. Shocking.

    Pay no mind to the healthy, well fat look of most Texicans, their arteries are clogged, and they will die in about 80 or so years from the unhealthy foods they eat.

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  5. Jägermeister says:
    5/16/2009 at 8:38 am

    I guess the Russian professor might be right after all…

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  6. Hugh Ripper says:
    5/16/2009 at 8:40 am

    If Texas actually secedes I’ll eat my hat.

    Mexico might be interested in annexing them in such an event, though.

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  7. smartalix says:
    5/16/2009 at 8:47 am

    This is just the right wing jerking off.

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  8. Alfred1 says:
    5/16/2009 at 9:31 am

    #27 Don’t underestimate the attraction of freedom…

    While you may enjoy subsidizing the “green” choice of ecotryants…many of us don’t.

    You want alternative fuels…you pay for them…you want lawnmower cars…you drive them…stop making us subsidize them with our tax dollars.

    We don’t like them. Its tyranny to force me to pay for your “green” lunacy.

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  9. amodedoma says:
    5/16/2009 at 9:34 am

    #3 Exactly what I was thinking.

    Unfortunately a large part of the military industrial complex is texan.
    OTH, if they did it would be Mexico’s big chance to recover some lost terrain.

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  10. brian t says:
    5/16/2009 at 9:41 am

    Re #22: that table covers Discretionary spending that EXPLICITLY went to Texas. It does not cover mandatory Federal spending on e.g. Medicare, Social Security, etc. Neither does it cover discretionary spending on Federal projects that have a heavy presence in Texas, such as NASA and the Military, (Yes, Wikipedia is wrong – who knew?)

    In 2007 Texas contributed $225 billion in Federal tax revenue. (Source: IRS via Wikipedia “Federal tax revenue by state”.) How much Federal money went in to Texas, with all those big-ticket items? I don’t think “trillions” is overstating it.

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  11. jescott418 says:
    5/16/2009 at 10:05 am

    I would rather see California do it.

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  12. Sister Mary Hand Grenade of Quiet Reflection says:
    5/16/2009 at 11:45 am

    A new country – Mexas.

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  13. ECA says:
    5/16/2009 at 12:35 pm

    hmm,
    WHY leave?
    Anyone seen a list of the corps and companies that ARE IN/headquartered in texas??

    IF they sede, then we can CUT OFF THE HEAD of about 1/2 the corps. RESTRICT them from spreading out, and taking money BACK INTO TEXAS.

    Whats lost?? OIL!
    Texas has one of the biggest supply chains of OIL. WHICH means the USA would be hit by INFLATED GAS PRICES..

    WHAT texas dont have..
    They may have cattle, but a good share is sold to RICH restaurants. we get to sell them a GOOD share of beef and FOODS..

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  14. ECA says:
    5/16/2009 at 12:35 pm

    http://youtube.com/watch?v=j16tD0Ekp3g
    your video isnt showing.

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  15. Mark T. says:
    5/16/2009 at 1:08 pm

    Olberman is an idiot. Does he really expect Texas to continue to send $40-50 billion in federal taxes to D.C. after they hypothetically secede? That money would stay in Texas and would be spent locally for all the things that are now funded by federal money. AND there would be no federal mandates so spending could easily be decreased.

    So what if Texas would have to build some new post offices. Big whoop.

    Secondly, Texas would become a haven for business. Business would not flee but rather flock to Texas.

    And Olberman spent a big amount of his argument on sports franchises. Who gives a F***. They are private businesses that pamper a handful of millionaire athletes. Texas will be fine without a NFL team. And who will the Longhorns play? Um, Texas A&M, Texas Tech, U of Houston, Baylor, SMU, Rice, etc… just like with the old Southwest Conference. But who gives a crap anyway. What a lame argument to not secede.

    As for the border fence, it will be on the north to prevent the Americans from coming south, not vice versa (I actually know several Oklahoma residents that want their state join the Republic of Texas).

    As for the influx of Hispanics to Texas, when Texas can finally control their own borders and deport illegals then the hispanic population will plummet. The Federal Government should be doing that now but choose not to.

    As for shooting pigs from helicopters (a total non sequitur there, Uncle Dave), pigs are not native to Texas. The Spanish brought them from Europe. They are a huge nuisance that cause widespread crop damage. Anything to improve culling ferrel hogs is welcome here.

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  16. BubbaRay says:
    5/16/2009 at 4:59 pm

    # 3 Sister Mary Hand Grenade of Quiet Reflection said, “It would immediately raise the IQ of our nation by 50%.”

    Sure, we’ll keep Dell, TI, Cisco, all the telecom company R&D sites. Go start your own.

    # 4 qsabe said, “Wow, no Texas cowboy yokels left to start frivolous wars for personal profit and destroy the American economy. Big plus.. Go. Go! Go Please!”

    Hey, the US voted ‘em in. Buffoons all.

    We’ll keep Lockheed, Raytheon, Bell, Carswell, Dyess, Lackland, Randolph, and the Johnson Space Center, too, as well as the McDonald Observatory, big oil, electronics, food, and an enormous mfg. base. Good bye.

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  17. derspankster says:
    5/16/2009 at 5:33 pm

    Quite a few of you people are really fucked up. Likely 20 somethings that don’t know their arses from a hole in the ground. Sometimes I wish I could go back and be a kid – back when I knew it all.

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  18. Alfred1 says:
    5/16/2009 at 9:37 pm

    I think it inevitable…The Nation of Texas will exist soon…as borrowing/spending trillions cause the hyper inflation Obama’s teleprompter said it would:

    Long-Term Debt Load ‘Unsustainable’
    http://bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aJsSb4qtILhg

    Obama and this Congress will go down as the worst ever in the history of man…

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  19. Hatman says:
    5/17/2009 at 2:05 am

    On the subject of sports, he forgets to mention that the Grizzlies and Expos were both profitable in Canada, without ever having US TV contracts. The fact that they folded had more to do with mismanagement and sabotage than being from an out of US market. Also, baseball and basketball are far more popular in Texas than here. Canada can support 6 major league hockey teams and 8 major league football teams. If Canada can support 18 major league sports teams with only 7 million more people than Texas, then Texas can surely support their 10 major league sports teams.

    Texas would be more than capable of leaving on its own. It would be the 15th wealthiest country in the world by GDP if it did leave. Speaking from above the 49th, i would love to watch this happen. If a referendum to secede from the union could be passed, I can’t imagine that the rest of the US could justify stopping them. I don’t know why they would want to.

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  20. Cursor_ says:
    5/17/2009 at 2:34 am

    The ONLY way Texas could make it is to become like the Cayman Islands and Cambodia.

    Of course then they would join Venezuela as pariahs of the Western Hemisphere.

    Cursor_

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