Comments on: The Clash

By: Bryan

Bryan — Sat, 25 Jun 2016 21:46:42 +0000

The military aircraft rehab facility near DFW, the NASA facilities, all of the pork that Sam Rayburn and LBJ shoveled into Texas for decades as Speaker and Senate Majority Leader, all gone. All of the jobs, all of the infrastructure. What about pipelines?

Let them go, and figure out how to survive.

By: Badtux

Badtux — Sat, 25 Jun 2016 05:53:24 +0000

Texas is the only red state that actually sends more to the federal treasury than it receives, but a lot of that is because of a) oil and oil refineries, b) the banks in Dallas, and c) the technology industry in Austin. The oil wouldn’t be affected by a Texit, but the banking industry certainly would — suddenly they would all be covered by the anti-money-laundering laws that make international banking a pain in the ass for non-billionaire Americans nowadays and since most of the corporate HQ’s are elsewhere, the natural reaction would be to shut them down and move those functions to other states — and I don’t know what would happen with Austin. That might stay, but with some diminishment due to travel issues (i.e., now needing a passport to fly between corporate HQ in San Jose and the branch office in Austin).

In short, yes, on paper Texit looks financially feasible, but that’s not counting the benefits that Texas gets from not having passports and international banking requirements. Once you add that in, plus funding for a new Texas National Army (the National Guard is mostly paid for by Federal funds and all their equipment is on loan from the U.S. military), yeah, they can’t afford to leave.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Sat, 25 Jun 2016 02:19:24 +0000

Texas is in for a rude surprise if it leaves – it can’t afford to exist as a country.

By: Shirt

Shirt — Fri, 24 Jun 2016 20:13:36 +0000

And the “Brexit” has inspired the “Texit”! Go Texas, GO!

By: Bryan

Bryan — Fri, 24 Jun 2016 17:48:35 +0000

The currencies are tanking; the markets are tanking; Cameron is quitting; Corbyn is being challenged; Scotland will have another vote to leave Great Britain. Cameron did this and it blew up in his face.

People didn’t bother to figure out what this means before they voted, and, as usual, the people voting against something felt a larger need to vote, that those voting for the status quo.

By: Badtux

Badtux — Fri, 24 Jun 2016 17:13:35 +0000

So Boris Johnson appears to have won. They’re leaving.

What. The. F.

And people say that Donald Trump can’t win in the fall? BS. All he has to do is continue ranting about immigrants and he’ll get the same votes that Boris got. This might be a disaster for Britain. But it might also be a harbinger of a disaster for the US in the fall.