Comment

President Obama Speaks on Fixing the Broken Immigration System

216
kirkspencer1/29/2013 2:12:53 pm PST

re: #195 FemNaziBitch

Nah, I wanna watch them try to make it on their own in the modern world.

Yeah, I’ve run a lot of simulations on what happens if Texas secedes. There are a lot of assumptions that need decided. For example there are a lot of international companies with headquarters or major regional offices in Texas. Will they stay? That, in the end, is the make or break for the state.

The federal government will have to pull out. No choice. That includes the border patrol, that much maligned agency. Texas suddenly becomes a factor in the Mexican Cartel Wars. Oh, especially with the army, navy, and air force withdrawing. The question of who owns the various materiel the national guard uses becomes significant.

A truly large concern for the US would be the various nuclear facilities in Texas. In particular Pantex, near Amarillo, which is at this time the only (known) nuclear assembly/disassembly facility in the US. Yeah, that should raise some hackles.

Texas is on the edge of declaring an emergency and seeking federal assistance due to the drought. It’s a pretty solid guarantee that the state can’t produce enough food to feed its citizens, much less its residents.

Texas produces oil. More important for its economic future is it refines oil. It can produce and refine enough for its needs at this time. It can refine enough for income - provided it can secure its ports and facilities from terrorists and criminals.

It would be a massive headache for everyone, and in the end I think Texas would become a third world country or return to the US within a generation. But that’s not a certainty, and a decent tweak of some assumptions makes Texas a small but significant player - like Switzerland or Denmark.