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Secession Petitions Flood White House Website
First time accepted submitter RNLockwood writes "Political.com reports that several petitions to secede from the Union have been created at the White House site, We The People, for many states; all since Obama's re-election. Texas and Louisiana lead the list with Texas needing only 7,000 more signatures to qualify for a White House response, probably less now as more Americans have become aware of the petitions. It would be interesting to see a comparison done of these petitions and the Post Election Racist Tweets Map."
Look, I hate the way democracy is handled, and I'm as white as most Texans (though no where near as tall), but this kind of thing doesn't just make your entire country look foolish. Quebec's done that to my country for a while. This makes your country look like 14th century racists. It's not even modern racism.
Haven't you guys had civil wars over this shit already? Aren't there movies and books and statues and abstract rail-roads about all of this?
Way to remind everyone that the USoA isn't a country, it's just a collection of independent states. Quebec doesn't want to "leave" Canada, they want to start their own country. Texas wants to simply leave.
Quite frankly, it's embarassing to share a land-mass with you guys. You do know that most of the world can't distinguish Canadians from United Statians, so they call us all Americans, you know, since we share that land mass known as the Americas. The British are going to mock us!
Good thing you still have the right to bare arms. Even if the British aren't coming, I guess the blacks sure are.
Wow. Little brother to big brother, grow up.
Michelle is his beard. If you know what I mean. And if you don't, I'm implying that he's homosexual.
I stopped reading at slave states.
FACT: No Republican has EVER owned a single slave. The Democrats can't make the same claim.
FACT: The DNC filibustered the Civil Rights act preventing it from being passed in the 30's when the GOP first proposed it and only passed in the 60's once the GOP hadn enought of Congress to get it passed.
Thanks for your dishonest revisionist history. I see your public education serves you well in ignoring inconvient facts.
It would save us a shitload of tax money and we would no longer have to worry about the American taliban getting their voice in our laws.
http://economistsview.typepad.com/economistsview/2012/09/who-receives-the-disproportionate-share-of-government-spending.html
I call bullshit. The blog in your link quotes from a David Brooks editorial in the NYT:
The people who receive the disproportionate share of government spending are not big-government lovers. They are Republicans. They are senior citizens. They are white men with high school degrees.
That editorial was in response to a quote from Mitt Romney
There are 47 percent of the people who will vote for the president no matter what. All right, there are 47 percent who are with him, who are dependent upon government, who believe that they are victims, who believe that government has a responsibility to care for them, who believe that they are entitled to health care, to food, to housing, to you name it.
The first is a good example of yellow journalism while the second is a good example of how politicians use valid statistics to lie to the public, made all the more easier because most people automatically translate “entitlement program” to “welfare” when in reality it also includes benefits paid for or earned by the recipients, like Social Security, Medicare and VA benefits. As to how Brooks derived Republicans, seniors and white males, he never does really make it clear but one has to guess that's his bigoted idea of who a senior receiving Social Security or someone receiving VA benefits must be.