Olbermann Can't Think Like a Texian

I just got wind of this video by Keith Olbermann. I normally like what he says..for the most part but on the subject of Texas secession, he has it all wrong!

From the Huffington Post:

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He sounds as though he is trying to make Texans afraid of the idea of secession, but if you listen again, I think he and others are the ones really fearful.

Since I could less about the sports issues he brought up, I won't address it. Someone else can do that.

All Texas would need to do is institute a 5% tax on goods and services crossing the border. Businesses in Texas, hiring Texans and keeping their jobs in Texas would be tax exempt.

Texas imports for 2005 (latest year I found) were $235,512,947,993.

"Last year, Texas exported more than $117 billion in products, 14.3% of total U.S. exports. Over the 1999-2004 Texas was the 20th fastest growing U.S. export state, posting a 7.1% annual growth rate.

On a per capita basis, Texas is the third most prolific exporting state--and despite significant population increases, the state increased its per capita exports over the period. In 2004, Texas firms exported over $5,200 per resident." -- 2005 Texas Exporters Resource Guide, Pg 8

Tax Exempt? How many companies would love to be headquartered where they didn't have to pay taxes? Think of the money for Research and Development? Medical research...scientific research...any research?

How many countries have embassies or consular offices in Texas?
A BUNCH!

Texas wouldn't need an Army as we would vote to do what the Swiss used to do, arm every citizen and each should maintain a month supply of ammo. We'd have the safest territory in the North American continent.

Once Texians are no longer feeding the Federal Reserve beast, they would have more money to pay off their bills and their homes, so there wouldn't be a drain on the nation. And since we would focus on personal responsibility, if you don't work, you don't eat and all the free loaders would go back to the US. If one were truly needy and unable to work due to physical or mental obstacles, the Church would be called upon to fulfill it's mandate by Christ to care for these people or there would be Charities..but there would not be government welfare.

See Your Life in the republic of Texas vs. Your life in THE STATE OF TEXAS/UNITED STATES

Now as for whether Texas can secede...the obvious answer is YES!

"The Congressional Records of both the Congress of the United States and Congress of the republic of Texas, between 1837 and 1845, show that there had been several attempts to bring Texas into a union with the United States; but due to the aggressive stances of several senators and congressmen, such as John Quincy Adams, they were able to prove on the U.S. Congressional Record that it would be unconstitutional for the United States to annex the Texas Nation or any other foreign nation without proper ratification of an amendment to the Constitution to allow for such annexation. But on February 27, 1845, the Senate of the United States usurped its authority under the U.S. Constitution and started the unlawful process to annex Texas, a foreign Nation. This usurpation of authority lacked any lawful foundation under International Law, Law of Nations and the United States Constitution. The U.S. senate was unable to muster enough votes to pass an unlawful treaty; so they proceeded to unlawfully annex the Texas Nation with a so-called joint resolution. There is a big difference between a Treaty and a Resolution. There has never been a lawful Treaty of Annexation between the united States of America and the republic of Texas. The records of these congressional proceedings during 1845 and early 1846 are quite explicit, with documented facts showing the unlawful annexation." -- Ed Brannum, A Nation Standing Under God is Re-Born

The truth is that once Texians got over the shock of actually being free from the socialistic nation they have been brainwashed into thinking was theirs, they will flourish and began to recreate the golden years of American prosperity.

Texas has everything going for it and we do NOT need Washington, D.C., Washington D.C. needs Texas.

My Heart is in Texas

There is just nothing better than to see a field of bluebonnets in the spring. Usually there are Indian Paintbrushes springing up here and there as well.

The photo above was taken by Pat Kominczak of The StringBenders just a week ago. Isn't it just a beautiful sight! A Texas longhorn munching on bluebonnets....both symbols of Texas.

There has been allot of talk in Texas lately of secession, due to the aggressive encroachment on the rights of Texas at the state level by an ever revealing socialistic administration. Governor Perry has come out saying secession is not the first choice but it is on the table of options.

"We've got a great union. There's absolutely no reason to dissolve it. But if Washington continues to thumb their nose at the American people, you know, who knows what might come out of that. But Texas is a very unique place, and we're a pretty independent lot to boot." -- Gov. rick Perry

If he will put the vote to the people, he would be surprised to find a majority of Texans would support that option.

What would secession mean for Texas?

In a word: Freedom

In another word: Liberty

By and large, Texas is a Christian faith state. You may not believe that by talking to city dwellers, but get into the rural parts of Texas and you will find a great many people not afraid to let you know, Christ is their Saviour.

These aren't what most folks would refer to as Bible-thumpers, they may not even go to church every Sunday, but they have a strong faith just the same.

These people would rather see Texas as a state in the USA because they have a sense of loyalty to America, but that loyalty is to a free America, not a socialistic America. If the rest of the USA doesn't mind going down the road to socialism, well, Texans won't go with them.

The error is in the assumption that the General Government is a party to the constitutional compact. The States … formed the compact, acting as sovereign and independent communities. – John C. Calhoun

If the choice is Freedom or Socialism, hands down, Texans will vote to secede.

How can I be so sure? Because I live here, in Houston. I talk with the average joe blow every day. I hear what folks are whispering.

Texans are a fiercely independent bunch of people, out-spoken and direct with their opinions,they'll help anyone but they don't like being told who to help and when to help.

If Texas were to secede, there would be no more Federal Income Tax, we'd get rid of the IRS with a snap of the fingers, or with that one vote. That alone would put more money in the pockets of Texans, and more money in the economy.

Companies would be more likely to keep their manufacturing jobs here than sending them overseas because we are smart enough to create incentives for doing just that. And on a personal note (Governor Perry, are you reading this?) companies that send their jobs overseas should be taxed higher than companies which create jobs in Texas.

Texas has it's own electrical power grid, we have cattle, sheep and goats, cotton and grain, rice, natural gas, oil (Conoco-Phillips, Exxon-Mobil, Halliburton, Valero, and Marathon Oil), shipping, fishing, medical research, NASA, technologies (Dell, Inc., Texas Instruments, Perot Systems, AT&T, and Electronic Data Systems (EDS), solar power and it looks as though Texas will have great potential in the field of biofuels as well.

Texas leaving a socialist America is a no brainer for Texans, and I could see why Washington DC would not let Texas go without a fight. It could be 1861 all over again.

"We do heartily accept this doctrine, believing it intrinsically sound, beneficent, and one that, universally accepted, is calculated to prevent the shedding of seas of human blood. And, if it justified the secession from the British Empire of Three Millions of colonists in 1776, we do not see why it would not justify the secession of Five Millions of Southrons from the Federal Union in 1861." - The New-York Daily Tribune, December 17, 1860

One major difference is today, any prevention to Texas by Washington DC would be viewed by the entire world, thanks to the Internet. (I was going to write "the news media" but they seldom report the truth any more. Just look at how they non-reported the recent Tea Parties across America.) And US supported Kosovo's declaration of independence from Serbia in February 2008, so the whole world would be watching to see how the administration would treat Texas declaring it's independence...again.

In a recent news article, a political science professor at Southern Methodist University stated Texas no longer had the right of secession due to having signed a document '...that renounced the original secession." This supposedly happened at the end of the Civil War in Texas as Texas was being brought back into the Union.

First, Texas was in the process of dissolving its relationship with the United States prior to the Civil War. When the war was over, Texas being made to sign any document in order to rejoin the Union would be considered "under duress" and arguable as unenforceable by any law student.

Texas would have been happy to not have been brought back into the Union so Texas signed that document at gun point and was brought back to Lincoln as a prize, a spoil of the War.

Truth be told these many long years, Texas could be described as an occupied nation since 1865.