Squirley_Guy
Well-Known Member
Today in my 2nd period class, one of my friends brought up the topic that there were a bunch of states putting forth a petition to secede from the union. Louisiana was the first to petition. Texas soon followed.
This is actually kind of scary to me. https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petitions Here is a list of all open petitions to the Obama administration. Last time I counted, 27 states had put in petitions. Most of them were southern states, but New York, New Jersey, Colorado, Oregon, and Pennsylvania have also started petitions, among a few others. The deal with these petitions is that they need 25,000 signatures in a month to be considered by the White House staff. While I don't think there will be a Republic of Texas anytime soon, it still is startling. The petition for Texas to secede was started on Friday, and it already has 40K+ signatures. Just to put into perspective, the state of Tennessee had about 3,000 signatures earlier this morning. About 12 hours later, it has almost 12,000. I want to know what you guys think about this. Do you think all these states actually could secede and create their own countries?Whitehouse.gov said:Peacefully grant the State of Texas to withdraw from the United States of America and create its own NEW government.
The US continues to suffer economic difficulties stemming from the federal government's neglect to reform domestic and foreign spending. The citizens of the US suffer from blatant abuses of their rights such as the NDAA, the TSA, etc. Given that the state of Texas maintains a balanced budget and is the 15th largest economy in the world, it is practically feasible for Texas to withdraw from the union, and to do so would protect it's citizens' standard of living and re-secure their rights and liberties in accordance with the original ideas and beliefs of our founding fathers which are no longer being reflected by the federal government.