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[weswilson]

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[nutmeg-44.livejournal.com]

I think they should be allowed to self-govern, with absolutely no help from anyone else... just to see what happens.

[brother-dour.livejournal.com]

Texas gets $40 billion in aid from Washington a year. For the last several years it has not paid more than it got back.

I think what would happen is in about 30 years Texas would be a Third World country.

[nutmeg-44.livejournal.com]

Meh. I currently live in a third world country. They'd survive.

[brother-dour.livejournal.com]

I wasn't implying they wouldn't. I was implying that without that Federal aid, Texas would go from having some great roads and infrastructure, 'could be worse' schools, good hospitals, reliable emergency services, to those of a Third World nation.

I mean no offense, but yes things would degrade a bit I think.

[nutmeg-44.livejournal.com]

I understand what you mean. We all want the best things possible, whatever those things may be, but if you virtually exist because of benefits given to you but essentially bite the hand that feeds you or can't play nicely with others, then perhaps those benefits need to be taken away. Why should they be rewarded for bad behaviour?

[blackdwarv.livejournal.com]

*tries to imagine several states without environmental regulation dumping raw sewage into rivers going into other states*
*imagines Mississippi reinstating slavery. Because: Mississippi*

I keep telling the joke: Why doesn't the US allow the South to secede?
Because we Mexico doesn't want a dirty, polluted, poverty-struck, crime-ridden, uneducated, theocratic, third-world country on their border.

[nutmeg-44.livejournal.com]

Well, when you consider the social welfare of Mexico I can understand not wanting that to happen.
The Southerners would run wild and think it was within their right.