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I would imagine you would take the share of the US population made up by Texans in the latest census count and figure out a percentage of the debt that way.
But your inability to provide answers to a couple of rather simple questions indicates that the problems that would arise are not assemble as session supporters would lead us to believe.
I wonder how many Texans would support secession if they were informed it meant not getting social security as well as paying their share of the debt?
Actually, I'd let Texas go without even requiring them to pay their share of the debt - they just can't keep any nukes. Why? Because the moment Texas starts down the path of truly seceding - and especially once they did secede - there would be freaking millions of conservatives (hopefully including the Koch brothers) flocking to the new conservative utopia of government small enough to drown in the bathtub, REALLY low taxes for the rich, and none of those pesky job-killin' regulations, mm-hmm. Heck, they might even build a new city and call it "Aynrandia", and make her birthday a national holiday. Y'know, we might even be able to scare them into going - all we gotta do is say..."Jade Helm is coming soon to your neck of the woods!"
And what happens when so many rich and powerful conservatives go there to escape oh-so-tyrannical America? Finally, we get some sensible things done in Washington.
Let Texas go, I say, and don't let the barn door hit 'em in the kiester on the way out!
Except in the front matter where one finds the Organic laws lol.
The 19th effectively gave females the right to vote. There is no doubt about that in the rational mind of any thinking person who knows history.
Excellent EB - you ignore both reality and the Constitution itself.
I'm unclear what you mean by saying natural rights are "man made"... can you explain that?
wrong...in the constitution there are natural rights and privileges...only
privileges today are called civil rights/legal rights...these are created by man, and called positive law.
natural rights are not created by man, but only recognized by man, and are not positive law.
privileges are created in statute law..no were in statute will you find a natural right for speech, prayer., protest, firearm, privacy.
that's the only thing I can think of as well.... and it's an especially weak argument.
:lamo..rights are not natural and we just call them natural rights when they are just made up by people
:lamo..
the anti-intellectualism is strong with this one.
how?
because im really not seeing the reason in saying that people 1 day just stumbled upon rights as they were observing nature
seems like people just came up with rules that matched how the felt people should be treated
and that's fine but its not natural
so you have over 2000 years of various philosophers saying " hey, I feel we should be treated this way or that way... so that's the way it's gonna be and we're gonna give it a name."
you've basically taken the entire field of philosophy, with it's sub-fields, and turned it on it's head.
not cool ,dude... not cool.
that's your argument here.
did not know philosophy is only 2000 years old or was only about the concept of rights
but when it was yes that's how it worked
sure those rules and feelings were backed up and shaped by observations of the world but that's still not natural or if it is contrary things can also be considered natural
wow.....
don't talk about things you are unfamiliar with.
is that how the debt was incurred in the first place?.. by counting warm bodies and dividing up money equally to spend?
Actually, I'd let Texas go without even requiring them to pay their share of the debt - they just can't keep any nukes. Why? Because the moment Texas starts down the path of truly seceding - and especially once they did secede - there would be freaking millions of conservatives (hopefully including the Koch brothers) flocking to the new conservative utopia of government small enough to drown in the bathtub, REALLY low taxes for the rich, and none of those pesky job-killin' regulations, mm-hmm. Heck, they might even build a new city and call it "Aynrandia", and make her birthday a national holiday. Y'know, we might even be able to scare them into going - all we gotta do is say..."Jade Helm is coming soon to your neck of the woods!"
And what happens when so many rich and powerful conservatives go there to escape oh-so-tyrannical America? Finally, we get some sensible things done in Washington.
Let Texas go, I say, and don't let the barn door hit 'em in the kiester on the way out!
sorry no it didn't....... it gave a new power to the federal government
my friend..you will no idea what constitution even is.
Your post made me chuckle. I love the name Aynrandia - its just perfection.
But I still want them to pay what they would owe and there is that pesky social security question.
what now?
because so far im seeing either artificial rights or natural opinion both of which can change fairly easily and nether of which are universal
Without a system of government to protect the citizens rights, no one really has any rights. Naturally speaking the only rights one has is applied by force and opinion.
Your post made me chuckle. I love the name Aynrandia - its just perfection.
But I still want them to pay what they would owe and there is that pesky social security question.
There is no "first place" in a scenario where a state leaves the union with the blessing of both sides and we have to then decide what to do with their portion of various obligations incurred on the behalf of those citizens. This would be new territory for all concerned.
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