Texas Secession Petition Ignored by White House

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Texas Secession Petition Ignored by White House

Texas is waiting for President Obama’s reaction to a petition demanding it be allowed to secede from the United States. They may have to keep waiting.

Sunday marked the last day for Texas’ petition to secede from the union to gather 25,000 digital signatures, the number needed to warrant a response from the White House.

The virtual petition achieved that goal four weeks ago. Now it’s up to 119,209, but still no word from the Oval Office.

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/12/texas-secession-petition-ignored-by-white-house/

obama?
 
cannabis said:
this proves you are nothing but a shallow minded bigot. if the US lost texas it would devastate this country.

it is like you have bitch mode on all the time
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No it wouldn't. We would be minus one state full of retarded bigots. We'll still have Florida and Arizona retards to contend with.
 
Bijou said:
No it wouldn't. We would be minus one state full of retarded bigots. We'll still have Florida and Arizona retards to contend with.
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i am literally laughing out loud right now.

do you understand economics? geopolitical issues?

if you did, you would not have made the dumbass comment above. it truly shows what a bigot you are bijou.
 
Haters in TX or those outside?
Plenty of them on both sides.

It would cost a lot to build a border barricade all around Texas though.
 
cannabis said:
but he said he would respond to petitions over 25,000 signatures....i guess he is only president to those he agrees with huh....
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As I said the most intelligent thing to date. Agreeing to respond to petitions over 25K was not too bright.
 
uscitizen too said:
The USA would gain if TX left. TX gets more in federal money than they pay in.
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On an annual basis, however, there were only six years in that time period when Texas residents paid fewer dollars in federal taxes than they got in return, according to the foundation.

And since 2005? For those numbers, Skowronski pointed us to the most recent federal tax data posted by the IRS and federal spending data from the U.S. Census Bureau.

In fiscal 2009, the IRS collected about $163 billion from Texans and the state received about $224 billion, for a net gain of $61 billion. Federal spending in Texas also exceeded tax payments in 2008 by $8 billion. It was the other way around in 2006 and 2007, when tax payments by Texans exceeded federal spending by a total of about $47 billion.

http://www.politifact.com/texas/sta...host-rachel-maddow-says-texas-routinely-rece/
 
cannabis said:
On an annual basis, however, there were only six years in that time period when Texas residents paid fewer dollars in federal taxes than they got in return, according to the foundation.

And since 2005? For those numbers, Skowronski pointed us to the most recent federal tax data posted by the IRS and federal spending data from the U.S. Census Bureau.

In fiscal 2009, the IRS collected about $163 billion from Texans and the state received about $224 billion, for a net gain of $61 billion. Federal spending in Texas also exceeded tax payments in 2008 by $8 billion. It was the other way around in 2006 and 2007, when tax payments by Texans exceeded federal spending by a total of about $47 billion.

http://www.politifact.com/texas/sta...host-rachel-maddow-says-texas-routinely-rece/
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Did you miss this, Yurtie?

The figures from our sources show two different trends. On an annual basis between 1981 and 2003, Texas almost always paid more in federal taxes than it got back from Uncle Sam. But since 2003 the reverse has been true, with Texas receiving more than it paid in five out of seven years, which is close to routine.

We rate Maddow’s statement as Mostly True.
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