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Edwird -> RE: Will the US split (eventually)? How would your state/region fare? (2/1/2017 6:40:52 AM)
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OK, then.
Not sure how my own state would fare in that endeavor. After some rough going in the beginning we'd probably be alright, even having the largest black population of any state in the country.
Have you ever had a homeless person try to give you money? There's this guy who does that once or twice a month on my way walking to the grocery store. I throw $2-$5 to him and the others on a non-predictable basis, and some one or three of them think they "owe" me or something. Silly guys. Though one of them a gal, actually. The latter parks ~ 5-7 shopping carts on the sidewalk in front of the grocery store and spends her day re-arranging them. She probably makes a decent living from her contributors, and god bless her. She doesn't get kicked out of the grocery store when she lays her head on the table in the cafe section and sleeps. God bless them.
TBH, I don't even know what the rest of my state thinks, probably not even how the city I live adjacent to thinks. People in most southern states are more independent minded, not predictable in measure of politics or much anything else.
When was all that noise about Texas secession? Was it Obama's last election, or the first one? In any case, 'the usual idiots' from the state I reside in made their predictable feeble attempt at making political hay out of all the short straws they'd apparently been dealt in life by jumping on that bandwagon. Whereupon some of the 'powerful' folks in Atlanta said- "Fine, you guys go right ahead. We're drawing up papers for Atlanta to secede from the state of Georgia, as we speak, and we'll beat you to it."
Silence Is Golden.
You must admit, though, that it's somewhat a silly question. But seeing as how I dragged myself into it, regardless ...
So then, Georgia is cut off the federal funds for TANF and EBT cards (food 'stamps'). But then also relieved the burden of sending working people's tax dollars to oil companies and their cheap or free (Cali) drilling rights, and everybody else taking up the slack for their 'depletion allowance' tax deductions, all on the national meter. And paying for their very expensive wars, and inevitable subsequent 'national security' expense. And bailing out investment bankers, another tremendous expense. It would take some serious number crunching to suss all that out. Not up to the task here, personally.
But if you want to see 'expense' in the most real terms, just drive by the nearest VA hospital, as I do most every day, and wave to the guys missing one or two legs.
I can't imagine we'd be worse off, in any case.
Cali, with out all their defense contracts, or NY with out all the bailouts and financial subsidies ... who knows?
Not having to give worker's tax money to ExxonMobil in NY/NJ or defense contractors and Chevron in California or Haliburton in Houston or Goldman Sachs and AIG, et al. in NYC would save the rest of the states quite a bundle, no question.
And people residing in the latter would actually get to keep their houses in the bargain.
And maybe even their legs.
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